Data Center Planned Outage – Library Services Impacted

There is a power outage scheduled for the University of Cincinnati’s primary Data Center beginning at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, May 12, and lasting as late as 8:00 a.m. on Sunday, May 14. Digital Technology Solutions (DTS) will be performing maintenance in the Data Center during this time. Many commonly used cloud-hosted services will remain available.

The UC Libraries website will remain up during the outage; however, some parts of the website will be unavailable, including:

  • Browzine integration with Summon
  • The staff directory
  • The student employment application
  • Some Contact Us forms
  • The “Journals” and “Books” search tabs on homepage
  • My Library Record

In addition, the following library sites/services will be down during the outage:

  • uclid.uc.edu (Library Catalog)
  • scholar.uc.edu
  • journals.uc.edu
  • digital.libraries.uc.edu (including Luna)
  • data.libraries.uc.edu
  • libapps.libraries.uc.edu (including the Source blog, LiBlog, Omeka S and Exhibits

More information, and a list of UC services that will be affected during the outage, can be found on DTS’s internal website (UC access only).

Select Library Services Unavailable -Friday, Dec. 16 and Dec. 17

Select IT services and systems will be unavailable from 10:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 16, to 11 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 17, during a planned power outage in the university’s primary Data Center.

Library Services such as this blog, contact forms, and many UC services , such as Password Self Service (UC password re-sets), UC Directory (Online faculty/staff directory) are all affected.

Visit this DTS page for a specific list of affected services:
https://mailuc.sharepoint.com/sites/ITatUC/SitePages/Data-Center-Maintenance.aspx

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Job Posting: Metadata Librarian at the University of Cincinnati Libraries

Metadata Librarian, full time faculty position

The University of Cincinnati Libraries is seeking candidates for a tenure-track metadata librarian position responsible for providing leadership and guidance in the development and implementation of metadata and data management strategies that will support discovery, access, management and preservation of the libraries physical and digital collections.

The University of Cincinnati is a premier, public, urban research university with an enrollment of more than 44,000 students; and is ranked as one of America’s top 26 public research universities by the National Science Foundation. The University of Cincinnati Libraries are a charter member of the Association of Research Libraries, with research collections of more than 4.25 million total volumes, access to 96,000+ journals, a digital repository of over 500,000 local digital objects, and 1.5 million e-books. The University of Cincinnati embraces diversity and inclusion as core values that empower individuals to transform their lives and achieve their highest potential.

Review of applications will begin February 26, 2018. Please visit https://jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinnati-Metadata-Librarian-OH-45201/451155600/ for full advertisement and to apply.

OhioLINK Services Unavailable Tonight- March 21, 2017

Maintenance will take place on OhioLINK servers tonight, March 21, from 7:30-10pm.  During the outage, however, all OhioLINK services will be unavailable.

Affected Services:
·         ohiolink.edu
·         EJC
·         EBC
·         ETD Center
·         Central Catalog*
·         DRC
·         Music Center
·         Rave URL resolver

We recognize that OhioLINK users are working all the time, and regret any inconvenience that this maintenance may cause