Website Unavailable 11/26

Hi Library Lovers, TC Library's Website will be inaccessible for a few hours this coming Friday. Read why below.

Original from: Mike Montgomery

The Information Technology Department is planning for a network outage on Friday, November 26th, 7am - 9am. This outage will affect network connectivity to the following services.

• Users residing off-campus (not physically present at the Minneapolis or Winona campus buildings) will not be able to get to Blackboard, Tegrity, Webmail, Webtools, or WWW2 pages.
• Users residing on the Winona Campus will have No off-campus internet or access to FSDirect (SchoolDude)
• Users residing at the Minneapolis Campus should not be affected.

Revisions to Web site

TC Library has improved our Web site based on your constructive feedback and suggestions. Below is list outlining the main changes. Please contact us if you have any questions--and we would love additional comments and feedback!

• Homepage - Article searching: The new default on the main page searching tabs allows you to search articles first. Choose a broad topic from the dropdown menu to see a page with database recommendations. If you know the database in which you'd like to search, select the link "Databases A to Z" under the dropdown menu.
  • You can also access links to Journal Finder and our Interlibrary Loan (ILL) article from here.
• Homepage - Book & Video searching: No longer the default tab on the homepage. Click the Books & Videos tab to search for these items.
• Homepage - top-of-page dropdown menus: Articles, Books & More leads you to pages specifically designed to help you find those different types of items.
• Homepage - top-of-page dropdown menus: Research Help is the new, more intuitive name for the old tutorials tab.
• Events: The old Events dropdown menu is now a Web page located under the About Us dropdown menu.
• Articles page: Find it by mousing over Articles, Books & More. The tabs explained:
  • Find Article Databases: Lets you choose a broad topic from the dropdown menu to see a page with database recommendations.
  • Find a Specific Article: Lets you use Journal Finder.
  • Request an Article: Lets you go to our ILL form.

If you so desire, we also have a short video introduction to our Web site available here. While not as creative as a Lady Gaga video, we feel it still has a respectable amount of artistic merit.

Coming soon: NEW WEB SITE

Hello SMU Community!

Mark your calendars and get out your bottles of celebratory champagne. It is with bated breath and much excitement that TC Library announces the introduction of our new Library Web site during the month of March!

TC Library’s new Web site features improved navigability, new databases, a new library catalog interface, new services, and additional tutorials. Some highlights include:

• Catalog and database searching from the homepage.
• Research tutorials in html, PDF, video, and mp4 format.
• Consistent dropdown menus on every page.
• Web 2.0—follow us online.

Be sure to click over to www.smumn.edu/tclibrary during the month of March. We hope you’ll like what you see!!

(The image above is a sneak peek of what one little section of our new homepage might look like.)