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Nov. 15 - 18 | Inspection of Fire Alarms, Sprinklers & Extinguishers at McLennan-Redpath

Posted on behalf of ֱ Campus Public Safety

As part of ֱ’s ongoing efforts towards ensuring a safe environment, the Fire Prevention service will once again be performing annual inspections of the fire detection and suppression systems. This year Leclerc will be performing these tests which involve verifying all components of systems within each building.

Building affected: McLennan-Redpath Complex

Published: 21 Oct 2022

Designated Conversation & Zoom Zones in Redpath & McLennan Library Buildings

All spaces in the McLennan-Redpath Complex are for quiet study EXCEPT for the following areas.

Zoom and Conversation Zones:

- Main floors of both the McLennan and Redpath Library Buildings

- The Cyberthèque level in the Redpath Library Building

- Elevator landings in the McLennan Library Building 

Thanks for doing your part to keep noise levels down in Quiet Zones.

Published: 29 Sep 2022

Accessing McLennan-Redpath materials during the Collections Centre move-in period

Two major parallel infrastructure projects—a new Collections Centre and Fiat Lux will transform the quality of services and spaces the Library offers. Library staff members are preparing for the movement of collections, spaces, and services in advance of renovation and construction activities.

Published: 21 Sep 2022

View recent search history in Library account

Earlier this year, it was announced that it is now possible to opt in to retain and view your recent borrowing history in your ֱ Library account. 

Published: 20 Sep 2022

RESOLVED: Technical issue affecting placing holds functionality in Sofia Discovery Tool

Updated August 31 at 8:45pm.

This technical issue has been resolved. Thank you for your patience.

There's an issue affecting the Sofia Discovery Tool in which users may not be able to place holds.

Our partners at OCLC are working on a resolution and we'll keep you updated.

We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.

Published: 31 Aug 2022

Osler Library of the History of Medicine reopens August 29, 2022

After several years of reconstruction work, the Osler Library of the History of Medicine is set to reopen with full service on Monday, August 29, 2022. The Osler Library will be open Monday to Friday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.

We would like to thank the ֱ community and scholar partners for their patience and collaboration during this renovation work.

Published: 23 Aug 2022

ֱ catalogue interface changes coming August 24

As of Wednesday, August 24, significant changes will be made to the ֱ catalogue interface. As shown in the accompanying image, the dropdown menu for result sorting options that was located at the top of search results will now appear on the left panel with other search options such as grouping related editions and expanding searches. Also, the “Group This Search” accordion will display as collapsed by default and will read: “Search Result Display”.

Published: 23 Aug 2022

RESOLVED: Technical issue with "Report a broken link" feature

Updated August 3. This issue was resolved. Thank you for your understanding.

The “Report a broken link” feature is having technical issues and we are in the process of troubleshooting.

In the meantime, if you’d like to report a broken link in the Library catalogue, please email collections.library [at] mcgill.ca.

Thank you for your patience and understanding. We will keep you updated.

Published: 29 Jul 2022

New | View recent borrowing history in Library account

It is now possible to retain and view your recent borrowing history in your ֱ Library account. To protect your privacy, this option is disabled by default and records are retained for 5 months only.

To enable borrowing history on your account:

Published: 18 Jul 2022

Oxford University Press E-books Migration | July 19, 2022

Starting on July 19, 2022, Oxford University Press will begin migrating its e-book content to their Oxford Academic Platform (formerly Oxford Journals).

Published: 12 Jul 2022

North: The Canadian Shared Print Network Launches to Ensure Preservation of Unique Canadian Publications

La version française suit

First there was WEST, then EAST, and now North! The North/Nord Steering Committee is proud to announce the launch of its preservation initiative North: the Canadian Shared Print Network/ Nord: Réseau canadien de conservation partagée des documents imprimés. 

Published: 29 Jun 2022

June 21 | New Interlibrary Loan System now live!

The new ILL system is now live! Find out how to use it and how to view and manage your ILL requests.

Original post published June 13, 2022

Published: 13 Jun 2022

As of June 23 ֱ Dataverse hosted on Borealis. Core services status quo.

On June 23, Scholars Portal Dataverse is becoming Borealis, the Canadian Dataverse Repository / le dépôt Dataverse canadien. All links to the current Scholars Portal Dataverse site will be redirected to the new site - borealisdata.ca.

Published: 1 Jun 2022

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