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Information Commoner September 2010 Volume 5, Issue 2 Keeping Library Staff on Common Ground In This Issue What’s Our Policy 2 Department News 2 Ask the Tech Guy 7 Mike’s Message The Northwest Accreditation team will be here November 3 - 5. Changing to university status triggered a full review within two years. Typically, the reviewer for Standard 5 (Library and Information Resources, which includes IT) will spend one day looking at the library and one day meeting with IT. In addition, meetings are set up with faculty and students as well. The final day is limited to an all-campus meeting in the morning where recommendations and commendations are read. As you see, the time is quite rushed and the reviewer usually meets with the Director and other staff if some clarification is needed. The full report is sent a month in advance so that the accreditation team has time to read it. Most of the subsequent interviews will clarify points left unclear in the report. Anyone could be asked questions, so everyone needs to be available to assist in any way needed. When you stop to realize that we have moved into the new Library since we were last visited, I think the Library will be one of the most improved entities on campus. I am currently reading through the full campus report. When I finish, I will put the report on reserve. Reading Standard 5 is important as reviewers like to see that everyone participated in the writing and is knowledgeable about what it says. A meeting will be held on October 6 at 9:00 AM in SC206b for an overview of the process. You never know who will be asked what. Announcements Limited Hours The Library will be on limited hours October 14—16 for Fall Break. We will be open from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Guest Speaker Steve Lutz will give a presentation on the history of the Emergency Services program at UVU, as well as to celebrate Utah Archives month, on October 27 from 1:00 -2:00 PM in LI 120. This presentation is part of the Archives’ celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Emergency Services programs at UVU. Halloween Costume Contest The Library will be hosting its annual Halloween Costume contest on Friday, October 29. A winner will be chosen via FaceBook. Please be sure to vote! 2 INFORMATION COMMONER What’s Our Policy? News from Access Services Group Study Rooms By Lesli Baker As we have all seen, the group study rooms are very popular! As a refresher, here are the policies concerning these rooms: • Rooms may be scheduled up to four days in advance from the online calendar. • Students may reserve rooms for up to four hours a day, but can only make one reservation a day (24 hour period). This means if a student reserves a room for one hour on Tuesday at 8:00 PM, he or she will not be able to make another reservation until Wednesday after 8:00 PM. • Groups have priority. If a group needs a study space, we can ask individuals to leave a room. Faculty members often use the group study rooms for consultation sessions. If faculty need to make reservations beyond the software’s limitations, please direct them to me, Carlos, or Ben. By Trevor Morris Circulation is pleased to welcome two new part-time library aides to fill in during our most sparsely staffed times. Samantha Sands hails from exotic Lehi, Utah. Her major is elementary education and she would like to teach 6th grade. She has worked at the Snow College library. Her favorite foods are Italian and hot wings. She likes to watch soccer. Her hobbies include photography and baking. She will be working late nights to help with closing. Victoria Tkurova comes to us from sunny Siberia, known for its beaches and piña coladas. Her major is economics and her favorite food is borscht, a traditional Russian soup made with beets. She has been in the USA for two months and speaks “gooder” English than Trevor and Claudine. She likes to do yoga and play tennis. Victoria will be working late afternoons and early evenings. Inventory By J O’Day The inventory project is coming along nicely. Using the Digital Library Assistant (DLA) we have scanned the regular collection and then compiled a list of titles which are on the shelf. This was by far the most time intensive part of the process. When that was finished we created a list of titles which should be in our holdings, but do not show up on our list of scanned titles. Now we are physically going through the collection searching for those items. We completed one sweep of the collection, compiled a revised list, and are now partway through a second sweep. Next, we plan on searching the other collections for the items we don’t find on the fourth floor. E D I T O R I A L I N F O R M A T I O N The Information Commoner is an internal communication tool published once a month by and for the Utah Valley University Library staff. Input from all library staff is encouraged. The deadline for information submittal is the third Friday of each month. Send information to Lesli via email. INFORMATION COMMONER 3 By Christy Donaldson Food, it's what's to eat! Here's your media department's focus on food. With the end of the farming season soon coming to a close, it's time to finish putting up your garden stock and start eating. Here is our list of videos to help make your fall food more fun: • Pressure Cooker (TX 667. P 74)—Intercity Philadelphia High School students learn what it takes to be a chef. • Inventing Cuisine (TX 719. T 7657)—A French TV series that gives you a new taste on French cuisine. • Julia Child's Kitchen Wisdom (TX 651. C 523)— She speaks for herself. • After Hours with Daniel: Food Tastes Better After Hours (TX 651. A 38)—What the chefs cook for themselves. • Practical, Healthy Cooking (TX 714. P 7338)— Something we can all use. • Julia Child! America's Favorite Chef (TX 649. C 47 J 84)—Who doesn't love Julia Child? • Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie (Season One: TX 725. A 1 G 6876)—This PBS series follows foodies around the world. • Cook Like a Chef (Season One: TX 714. C 665) • Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home (TX 719. C 373)— Another culinary classic. • How to Cook Your Life: A Cooking Class with Zen Priest and Chef Edward Espe Brown (RA 784. H 69)—Learn to cook while also learning Zen principles. • Julie & Julia (PN 1995.9. B 55 J 8554)—The blockbuster movie about Julia Child and Julie Powell cooking from her book. (We also have the book in the browsing collection: TX 649. P 66 A 3.) So, get out there and whip your taste buds into a frenzy with food films! News from Media By Sarah Suazo We are excited to be working with a great group of library aides again this year. Ben and Heidi are both returning and spending some time with us in Tech Services, as well as working in Circulation. Also returning is Candace, who is finishing up her degree in photography. Joining us for the first time is Sean Orton, who will be working both in Technical Services and Circulation. Sean is a Public History major from Sandy, Utah. He is married and has two children. Sean also works in sports television broadcasting when he isn’t helping us out at the Library. News from Serials 4 INFORMATION COMMONER News from Systems By Mark Stevens EZProxy Server Cutover Is Complete The UVU Library's off campus database article access is now being proxied by the new Linux virtual server. The new server seems to be performing normally and is noticeably faster than our old server. The old server will be kept running as a backup proxy server, and to support our WEBRPT reporting requirements. Curriculum Committee Attendance UVU Library has is now sending a representative (Mark) to attend the UVU Curriculum Committee meetings. The meetings appear to be well organized for review and approval of proposed additions and changes to UVU's programs and classes. We hope to leverage this preview of upcoming changes to inform subject librarians of how they may initiate the purchase of needful materials for our collections and provide applicable departmental support. All changes must be approved by November 1 to be implemented the subsequent fall, which provides us a comfortable lead time for preparation. News from Reference/Instruction By Annie Smith The Library has added three new subscription databases this fall. You may have seen them advertised on the Library’s homepage, but here is a run down of what they can do for us. Dance in Video Because researching topics in dance is as much about watching performance as it is about reading critical articles, the Library has subscribed to this unique database. Dance in Video offers access to over 200 videos of dance performances, ethnic and folk dance, dance technique, and much more. SPORTDiscus SPORTDiscus covers sports and sports medicine. This is the ideal database for those tricky questions about college sports, sport medicine, and other related topics. Dance students and faculty can also use this database to learn more about kinetics, dance anatomy, and injury prevention. SPORTDiscus is an EBSCOHost database. ATLA Religion Database ATLA is another EBSCO database that offers coverage of academic articles about religion, theology, church histories, and social issues in religion. In addition to these subscription databases, we have also added links to two free pre-print archives: ArXiv and Nature Precedings. Unlike the articles in our other databases, these pre-prints are copies of articles voluntarily published by their authors before they appear in the journals. They may include typos, but they are a great source for full text in the sciences. ArXiv covers physics, mathematics, astronomy, and related topics. Nature Precedings covers life sciences and some health topics. INFORMATION COMMONER 5 By Keith Rowley With Janet gone and Shuyi on vacation, it has been pretty quiet in Technical Services, but a lot is still getting done. We are very happy to announce that Paul has been promoted to the Cataloging Manager position that Janet held. The Cataloging Assistant position is now empty and that position will be announced shortly. On September 23, Keith, Paul, and Mike attended an Introduction to RDA class at the State Library. RDA (Resource Description and Access) is a new standard for cataloging that will probably be adopted in the next year. But we have to wait until Symphony is updated for the new standard before we will be able to fully adopt it. Our music score collection is still growing. Within the next month expect, another 100 scores will added to our collection on the second floor. Last month, we received a very large donation (about 84 boxes) of high quality art books from the University of Utah Art Museum. We hope to get them all processed and on the shelf within a few months. News from Technical Services News from the Sutherland Archives By Catherine McIntyre I attended the Utah History Conference on September 10, 2010, at the Rio Grande Depot in Salt Lake City. I had arranged for the Mountain West Digital Library to have a display and information table, and several of us from the UALC Digitization Committee staffed it throughout the day, including Kim Rollins, our former assistant library director and now Public Affairs Coordinator for UALC. We had quite a few historians and researchers stop by to find out more about the MWDL, as well as several who said that they might consider adding their collections to the MWDL in the future. The same day, I attended two sessions on Oral History best practices, and a presentation by Steve Lutz, assistant director of UVU’s Utah Fire and Rescue Academy, whose research deals with a historic fire that destroyed the Victory Theater in Salt Lake City in May 1943. There were many code violations, poor equipment, and lack of firefighter support which led to the death of a firefighter there. The political fallout from the fire was quite spectacular as well. Steve Lutz will be giving a presentation on the history of the emergency services program from 1960 to the present during our Utah Archives Month activities, on October 27 from 1:00—2:00 PM in the Library lecture hall (LI 120), as the Archives celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Emergency Services programs at UVU. He will also include information on the history of the program here, and firefighting in Utah in general. Steve is working on a book about firefighters in Utah who have died in the line of duty. I hope that you will all attend his presentation. For Utah Archives Month in October, the Archives will also host a display of historic photos, manuals, Continued on next page. 6 INFORMATION COMMONER equipment, and other items from the Utah Fire and Rescue Academy (UFRA) to help them celebrate their 50th Anniversary. A new digital collection that we are beginning to work on is the Rivoli Theater. This is a senior project for Yvette Beaudoin, a Digital Media student, who is part of a committee working to raise money to save and renovate the Rivoli Theater in Springville. Yvette is collecting photographs, newspaper articles, theater playbills and advertisements, and many other items dealing with the history of the theater from 1935 to present. She scans the items, and we are creating a digital collection for them in CONTENTdm. It’s an interesting project, and will be a unique addition to the other student theses and senior projects in our Digital Collections. We are also in the planning phase of a new exciting project—we are going to be the physical and digital repository for several thousand wax sound cylinders that were used to record audio before LP recordings. Mike Wisland of Digital Media Technology, an audio restoration expert and one of Brent’s teachers, owns many of these cylinders, and would like to donate them to the Archives as well as help us create a digital library of the audio on these cylinders. Most cylinders were made between 1880 and 1930, before being replaced by vinyl records. Professor Wisland’s cylinders include a speech by President McKinley, songs, jokes and stories, language lessons, and many other types of recordings of interest to historians, musicologists, sociologists, linguists, and other researchers. Brent will be the go-to person for facilitating this collection, and we are very excited about the possibilities. The creative ways to use this collection will be seemingly endless! I am attending a Utah Academic Library Consortium (UALC) Digitization Committee meeting Thursday September 23. I’m the facilitator of the Outreach Task Force, and will be reporting on the activities that we’ve been doing to promote the MWDL, such as the publicity table at the Utah History Conference. Also, I was just elected to be the co-chair elect of the Digitization Committee, so that will certainly be a new learning experience for me! I will also be attending the Fall Caucus for the Conference of Intermountain Archivists (CIMA) on September 29 at the LDS Church History Library in Salt Lake City. I am a CIMA council member and on the mentoring subcommittee. Ad for the Rivoli Theater, 1958 Example of a wax cylinder INFORMATION COMMONER 7 ASK THE TE CH GU Y Q: What’s going on with printing in the Information Commons? A: Here are some recent updates from the meetings I have attended. • Macintosh computers still cannot print. • Wireless will be available soon, a web based solution. The only problem is that it will not accept all file types, only well known ones. There are also some other updates: • A mandatory change in everyone's password will begin on the 11th of October. All new passwords will need to have a minimum of 8 characters and include special characters. • Patrons also have been told, via UVAnnounce and computer screen messages, that the U drive also does not exist anymore. • Student can now buy 4GB flash drives at the Reference desk for $10. More information will follow as it becomes available.
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Full Text | Information Commoner September 2010 Volume 5, Issue 2 Keeping Library Staff on Common Ground In This Issue What’s Our Policy 2 Department News 2 Ask the Tech Guy 7 Mike’s Message The Northwest Accreditation team will be here November 3 - 5. Changing to university status triggered a full review within two years. Typically, the reviewer for Standard 5 (Library and Information Resources, which includes IT) will spend one day looking at the library and one day meeting with IT. In addition, meetings are set up with faculty and students as well. The final day is limited to an all-campus meeting in the morning where recommendations and commendations are read. As you see, the time is quite rushed and the reviewer usually meets with the Director and other staff if some clarification is needed. The full report is sent a month in advance so that the accreditation team has time to read it. Most of the subsequent interviews will clarify points left unclear in the report. Anyone could be asked questions, so everyone needs to be available to assist in any way needed. When you stop to realize that we have moved into the new Library since we were last visited, I think the Library will be one of the most improved entities on campus. I am currently reading through the full campus report. When I finish, I will put the report on reserve. Reading Standard 5 is important as reviewers like to see that everyone participated in the writing and is knowledgeable about what it says. A meeting will be held on October 6 at 9:00 AM in SC206b for an overview of the process. You never know who will be asked what. Announcements Limited Hours The Library will be on limited hours October 14—16 for Fall Break. We will be open from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Guest Speaker Steve Lutz will give a presentation on the history of the Emergency Services program at UVU, as well as to celebrate Utah Archives month, on October 27 from 1:00 -2:00 PM in LI 120. This presentation is part of the Archives’ celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Emergency Services programs at UVU. Halloween Costume Contest The Library will be hosting its annual Halloween Costume contest on Friday, October 29. A winner will be chosen via FaceBook. Please be sure to vote! 2 INFORMATION COMMONER What’s Our Policy? News from Access Services Group Study Rooms By Lesli Baker As we have all seen, the group study rooms are very popular! As a refresher, here are the policies concerning these rooms: • Rooms may be scheduled up to four days in advance from the online calendar. • Students may reserve rooms for up to four hours a day, but can only make one reservation a day (24 hour period). This means if a student reserves a room for one hour on Tuesday at 8:00 PM, he or she will not be able to make another reservation until Wednesday after 8:00 PM. • Groups have priority. If a group needs a study space, we can ask individuals to leave a room. Faculty members often use the group study rooms for consultation sessions. If faculty need to make reservations beyond the software’s limitations, please direct them to me, Carlos, or Ben. By Trevor Morris Circulation is pleased to welcome two new part-time library aides to fill in during our most sparsely staffed times. Samantha Sands hails from exotic Lehi, Utah. Her major is elementary education and she would like to teach 6th grade. She has worked at the Snow College library. Her favorite foods are Italian and hot wings. She likes to watch soccer. Her hobbies include photography and baking. She will be working late nights to help with closing. Victoria Tkurova comes to us from sunny Siberia, known for its beaches and piña coladas. Her major is economics and her favorite food is borscht, a traditional Russian soup made with beets. She has been in the USA for two months and speaks “gooder” English than Trevor and Claudine. She likes to do yoga and play tennis. Victoria will be working late afternoons and early evenings. Inventory By J O’Day The inventory project is coming along nicely. Using the Digital Library Assistant (DLA) we have scanned the regular collection and then compiled a list of titles which are on the shelf. This was by far the most time intensive part of the process. When that was finished we created a list of titles which should be in our holdings, but do not show up on our list of scanned titles. Now we are physically going through the collection searching for those items. We completed one sweep of the collection, compiled a revised list, and are now partway through a second sweep. Next, we plan on searching the other collections for the items we don’t find on the fourth floor. E D I T O R I A L I N F O R M A T I O N The Information Commoner is an internal communication tool published once a month by and for the Utah Valley University Library staff. Input from all library staff is encouraged. The deadline for information submittal is the third Friday of each month. Send information to Lesli via email. INFORMATION COMMONER 3 By Christy Donaldson Food, it's what's to eat! Here's your media department's focus on food. With the end of the farming season soon coming to a close, it's time to finish putting up your garden stock and start eating. Here is our list of videos to help make your fall food more fun: • Pressure Cooker (TX 667. P 74)—Intercity Philadelphia High School students learn what it takes to be a chef. • Inventing Cuisine (TX 719. T 7657)—A French TV series that gives you a new taste on French cuisine. • Julia Child's Kitchen Wisdom (TX 651. C 523)— She speaks for herself. • After Hours with Daniel: Food Tastes Better After Hours (TX 651. A 38)—What the chefs cook for themselves. • Practical, Healthy Cooking (TX 714. P 7338)— Something we can all use. • Julia Child! America's Favorite Chef (TX 649. C 47 J 84)—Who doesn't love Julia Child? • Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie (Season One: TX 725. A 1 G 6876)—This PBS series follows foodies around the world. • Cook Like a Chef (Season One: TX 714. C 665) • Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home (TX 719. C 373)— Another culinary classic. • How to Cook Your Life: A Cooking Class with Zen Priest and Chef Edward Espe Brown (RA 784. H 69)—Learn to cook while also learning Zen principles. • Julie & Julia (PN 1995.9. B 55 J 8554)—The blockbuster movie about Julia Child and Julie Powell cooking from her book. (We also have the book in the browsing collection: TX 649. P 66 A 3.) So, get out there and whip your taste buds into a frenzy with food films! News from Media By Sarah Suazo We are excited to be working with a great group of library aides again this year. Ben and Heidi are both returning and spending some time with us in Tech Services, as well as working in Circulation. Also returning is Candace, who is finishing up her degree in photography. Joining us for the first time is Sean Orton, who will be working both in Technical Services and Circulation. Sean is a Public History major from Sandy, Utah. He is married and has two children. Sean also works in sports television broadcasting when he isn’t helping us out at the Library. News from Serials 4 INFORMATION COMMONER News from Systems By Mark Stevens EZProxy Server Cutover Is Complete The UVU Library's off campus database article access is now being proxied by the new Linux virtual server. The new server seems to be performing normally and is noticeably faster than our old server. The old server will be kept running as a backup proxy server, and to support our WEBRPT reporting requirements. Curriculum Committee Attendance UVU Library has is now sending a representative (Mark) to attend the UVU Curriculum Committee meetings. The meetings appear to be well organized for review and approval of proposed additions and changes to UVU's programs and classes. We hope to leverage this preview of upcoming changes to inform subject librarians of how they may initiate the purchase of needful materials for our collections and provide applicable departmental support. All changes must be approved by November 1 to be implemented the subsequent fall, which provides us a comfortable lead time for preparation. News from Reference/Instruction By Annie Smith The Library has added three new subscription databases this fall. You may have seen them advertised on the Library’s homepage, but here is a run down of what they can do for us. Dance in Video Because researching topics in dance is as much about watching performance as it is about reading critical articles, the Library has subscribed to this unique database. Dance in Video offers access to over 200 videos of dance performances, ethnic and folk dance, dance technique, and much more. SPORTDiscus SPORTDiscus covers sports and sports medicine. This is the ideal database for those tricky questions about college sports, sport medicine, and other related topics. Dance students and faculty can also use this database to learn more about kinetics, dance anatomy, and injury prevention. SPORTDiscus is an EBSCOHost database. ATLA Religion Database ATLA is another EBSCO database that offers coverage of academic articles about religion, theology, church histories, and social issues in religion. In addition to these subscription databases, we have also added links to two free pre-print archives: ArXiv and Nature Precedings. Unlike the articles in our other databases, these pre-prints are copies of articles voluntarily published by their authors before they appear in the journals. They may include typos, but they are a great source for full text in the sciences. ArXiv covers physics, mathematics, astronomy, and related topics. Nature Precedings covers life sciences and some health topics. INFORMATION COMMONER 5 By Keith Rowley With Janet gone and Shuyi on vacation, it has been pretty quiet in Technical Services, but a lot is still getting done. We are very happy to announce that Paul has been promoted to the Cataloging Manager position that Janet held. The Cataloging Assistant position is now empty and that position will be announced shortly. On September 23, Keith, Paul, and Mike attended an Introduction to RDA class at the State Library. RDA (Resource Description and Access) is a new standard for cataloging that will probably be adopted in the next year. But we have to wait until Symphony is updated for the new standard before we will be able to fully adopt it. Our music score collection is still growing. Within the next month expect, another 100 scores will added to our collection on the second floor. Last month, we received a very large donation (about 84 boxes) of high quality art books from the University of Utah Art Museum. We hope to get them all processed and on the shelf within a few months. News from Technical Services News from the Sutherland Archives By Catherine McIntyre I attended the Utah History Conference on September 10, 2010, at the Rio Grande Depot in Salt Lake City. I had arranged for the Mountain West Digital Library to have a display and information table, and several of us from the UALC Digitization Committee staffed it throughout the day, including Kim Rollins, our former assistant library director and now Public Affairs Coordinator for UALC. We had quite a few historians and researchers stop by to find out more about the MWDL, as well as several who said that they might consider adding their collections to the MWDL in the future. The same day, I attended two sessions on Oral History best practices, and a presentation by Steve Lutz, assistant director of UVU’s Utah Fire and Rescue Academy, whose research deals with a historic fire that destroyed the Victory Theater in Salt Lake City in May 1943. There were many code violations, poor equipment, and lack of firefighter support which led to the death of a firefighter there. The political fallout from the fire was quite spectacular as well. Steve Lutz will be giving a presentation on the history of the emergency services program from 1960 to the present during our Utah Archives Month activities, on October 27 from 1:00—2:00 PM in the Library lecture hall (LI 120), as the Archives celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Emergency Services programs at UVU. He will also include information on the history of the program here, and firefighting in Utah in general. Steve is working on a book about firefighters in Utah who have died in the line of duty. I hope that you will all attend his presentation. For Utah Archives Month in October, the Archives will also host a display of historic photos, manuals, Continued on next page. 6 INFORMATION COMMONER equipment, and other items from the Utah Fire and Rescue Academy (UFRA) to help them celebrate their 50th Anniversary. A new digital collection that we are beginning to work on is the Rivoli Theater. This is a senior project for Yvette Beaudoin, a Digital Media student, who is part of a committee working to raise money to save and renovate the Rivoli Theater in Springville. Yvette is collecting photographs, newspaper articles, theater playbills and advertisements, and many other items dealing with the history of the theater from 1935 to present. She scans the items, and we are creating a digital collection for them in CONTENTdm. It’s an interesting project, and will be a unique addition to the other student theses and senior projects in our Digital Collections. We are also in the planning phase of a new exciting project—we are going to be the physical and digital repository for several thousand wax sound cylinders that were used to record audio before LP recordings. Mike Wisland of Digital Media Technology, an audio restoration expert and one of Brent’s teachers, owns many of these cylinders, and would like to donate them to the Archives as well as help us create a digital library of the audio on these cylinders. Most cylinders were made between 1880 and 1930, before being replaced by vinyl records. Professor Wisland’s cylinders include a speech by President McKinley, songs, jokes and stories, language lessons, and many other types of recordings of interest to historians, musicologists, sociologists, linguists, and other researchers. Brent will be the go-to person for facilitating this collection, and we are very excited about the possibilities. The creative ways to use this collection will be seemingly endless! I am attending a Utah Academic Library Consortium (UALC) Digitization Committee meeting Thursday September 23. I’m the facilitator of the Outreach Task Force, and will be reporting on the activities that we’ve been doing to promote the MWDL, such as the publicity table at the Utah History Conference. Also, I was just elected to be the co-chair elect of the Digitization Committee, so that will certainly be a new learning experience for me! I will also be attending the Fall Caucus for the Conference of Intermountain Archivists (CIMA) on September 29 at the LDS Church History Library in Salt Lake City. I am a CIMA council member and on the mentoring subcommittee. Ad for the Rivoli Theater, 1958 Example of a wax cylinder INFORMATION COMMONER 7 ASK THE TE CH GU Y Q: What’s going on with printing in the Information Commons? A: Here are some recent updates from the meetings I have attended. • Macintosh computers still cannot print. • Wireless will be available soon, a web based solution. The only problem is that it will not accept all file types, only well known ones. There are also some other updates: • A mandatory change in everyone's password will begin on the 11th of October. All new passwords will need to have a minimum of 8 characters and include special characters. • Patrons also have been told, via UVAnnounce and computer screen messages, that the U drive also does not exist anymore. • Student can now buy 4GB flash drives at the Reference desk for $10. More information will follow as it becomes available. |
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