Remote Access to Electronic Resources & UH Library Catalog will be unavailable on 5/25/10, from 8 PM-11 PM

The UH Library Catalog will be unavailable on Tuesday, May 25, 2010 between 8:00pm and 11:00pm for scheduled maintenance.  Remote access to Electronic Resources will be unavailable while maintenance is underway.

Brief Service Interruption to UH Library Catalog (5/3/10 @ 6 PM)

Access to the UH Library Catalog will be briefly interrupted from 6:00 PM to 6:15 PM on Monday, May 3, 2010.  We apologize for the inconvenience.

UH Library Catalog Down for System Maintenance Friday Night at 10:00 PM

The UH Library Catalog will need to go offline for 30 minutes Friday night  (2-19-1010) at 10:00PM for system maintenance. Remote access to Electronic Resources may be interrupted while maintenance is underway.

Library Privileges Continue Throughout the Summer

Spring Semester Students:

Your library privileges, including access to electronic resources, continue throughout the summer. You must be enrolled on the last day of the Spring semester and be in good standing on your library account for access to library materials. 

Encore, a new way to search the catalog

Encore offers a single search box for retrieving results from the library catalog. Search results can be refined using a faceted display. Results are redrawn on the page so that users see in real-time how their results can be refined by selecting a single facet option or multiple facets. Results can be limited by title, subject, material format, sub-collection, date, and language.

A tag cloud is generated for each search based on subject headings for titles in the results set. Search results can also be refined by selecting any keyword or phrase in the tag cloud. The results display uses font size to highlight possible search options and helps to distinquish similar search terms.

Community tags allow the user to create their own search terms for an item, and can be used in describing works on a professor’s reading list.

Encore also highlights recently added materials based on the keyword search entered.