Learning Commons OPEN for Business!
We are pleased to announce that the UH Libraries’ Learning Commons has officially opened! The Learning Commons is a new space in the M.D. Anderson Library with equipment and resources to help you create multimedia projects or analyze data.
The LC has 17 high-end PCs and 5 iMacs, all equipped with the latest in digital media creation software (think Adobe Creative Suite) and the best in statistical analysis software (MATLAB, SPSS, SAS and Mathematica). In addition, the LC has five digital cameras, five digital video cameras and five “pen-scanners” available for checkout.
Additional services include color and black/white printing (with wide-format poster printing available Spring 2009) and a presentation “practice room” for you to put the final polish on your class presentation.
The Learning Commons will be open anytime the M.D. Anderson Library is open and staff will be on duty to assist you.
For more information, stop in for a quick tour of the LC or contact Mr. Nathan McKee (npmckee@uh.edu) for more information. We look forward to seeing you soon!
Chat Reference Service – Technical Difficulties
We are currently experiencing technical difficulties with our Chat Reference Service. If you cannot connect directly with uhlibrarian via chat, please use our Ask-A-Librarian email service (http://info.lib.uh.edu/services/aska.html) or contact us directly by phone at 713-743-1050, (select option 4 to reach the Information Desk).
We apologize for the inconvenience and are working to fix the problem quickly.
Thank you,
Lee Andrew Hilyer,
Program Director for Research & Reference Services
Extended Hours for Chat Reference
Need research help? Now you can chat up your librarian and get assistance via Instant Messaging nearly anytime the library is open. Use AIM, Google Chat (GTalk), or Yahoo! Messenger to send a message to UHLibrarian or you can visit our Ask-A-Librarian page and use the Meebo chat widget for assistance.
Research & Reference Services,
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Chat Reference Service Unavailable
During Spring Break 2008, March 17th – 21st, the Libraries’ Chat Reference service will be unavailable. For assistance, please use our Ask-A-Librarian service (http://info.lib.uh.edu/services/aska.html).
Chat Reference will resume at 3pm on Monday, March 24th. Have a great Spring Break!
Printing Unavailable, Sunday March 16th
Printing will be unavailable Sunday, March 16th, to install needed upgrades to the Libraries’ print server and release station software. Printing will be available again on Monday, March 17th.
Visitors to the Libraries on Sunday should bring a USB flash drive with them to save any created documents or located research articles. UH students and faculty can save documents to their CougarNet "H" drive.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Call for Artists deadline extended through January 16!
Work is being accepted for a juried exhibit, January 31-April 15, 2008, sponsored by UH Libraries. Open to UH students in any major. The exhibit jury includes directors and curators from the Blaffer Gallery, Houston Art League, Lawndale Art Center, Menil Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, as well as UH Honors College and School of Art faculty members.
Submit 2D, ready to hang work in any medium, not to exceed 5'x5' or extend more than 4" from wall, to the Library Administration office on the 2nd floor of the M.D. Anderson Library or the Jenkins Architecture and Art Library. Work will be accepted until 5 pm, January 16th.
WorldCat/ILLiad Link
Interlibrary Loan users who normally request materials via WorldCat should be aware that we are still experiencing problems with the transfer of citation information from WorldCat to ILLiad. Technical support is working on the problem and we hope to have it resolved soon.
If you have any questions, please contact Lee Andrew Hilyer, Coordinator of ILL Services, at x3-9721 or by email at lahilyer@uh.edu.
Apologies for the inconvenience.
ILL/Catalog Link Unavailable in WorldCat
We are currently experiencing problems with the ILL/Catalog ("Find this Item") link in the WorldCat database. Other OCLC FirstSearch databases are not affected.
Unfortunately, you will have to manually check the catalog and/or enter the request into ILLiad.
To check the catalog for an item:
- Open a new browser window (CTRL+N) or a new browser tab (CTRL+T).
- Go to: http://library.uh.edu/
- Perform a catalog search as you normally would.
To request the item via Interlibrary Loan:
- Open a new browser window (CTRL+N) or a new browser tab (CTRL+T).
- Go to: http://illiad.lib.uh.edu/illiad/logon.html and log in with your username and password.
- Enter the information in the "Book (or other Loan)" form, then click the "Submit" button.
We apologize for the inconvenience and are working to resolve the problem as quickly as possible.