The Walter C. Langsam Library will be closed Friday, Oct. 10, 2025.
Facilities will conduct a water shutdown to complete necessary repairs to the building’s fire pump.
Normal library hours resume Saturday, Oct. 11.
The University of Cincinnati Libraries’ catalog server will be offline for maintenance beginning at 9:00 a.m. August 14th. A server migration will be performed and is expected to take up to 8 hours.
Web connections to uclid.uc.edu, the library catalog, will be unavailable during this time. The Libraries website and other online services will still be available.
Thank you for your understanding while we perform maintenance.
A power outage is scheduled for UC’s primary Data Center beginning at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, October 6, and lasting as late as 8:00 a.m. on Sunday, October 8. Electrical maintenance will be performed in the Data Center during this time.
More information, and a list of UC services that will be affected during the outage, can be found in this news post.
The University of Cincinnati Libraries website (libraries.uc.edu) will remain up and available during the outage; however, some parts of the website will be unavailable.
The parts of the site that will be unavailable during the outage are:
• 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 unavailable during the outage:
• uclid.uc.edu (staff and public Sierra)
• digital.libraries.uc.edu (including Luna)
• libapps.libraries.uc.edu (including the Source, LiBlog, Omeka S, and Exhibits)
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:
In addition, the following library sites/services will be down during the outage:
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).
Please note that the University of Cincinnati’s Sierra server will be offline for scheduled maintenance from 6:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. on Friday, March 17th. This means that web connections to uclid.uc.edu (the Library Catalog) will be unavailable during this time.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.