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Computing network outages planned for August 13

From Information Resources and Technologies:

From 6 a.m. to approximately 11 a.m. on Sunday, August 13, most central university technology resources will be unavailable while necessary upgrades are installed and system maintenance is performed. This includes the UST Network and Internet/Web, MyStorage, E-Mail, Blackboard, Network printing, Library databases, and more. If you have questions, contact the IRT Tech Desk at 651/962-6230 or e-mail IRTHelp@stthomas.edu.

Computer network outages planned, July 21-23

IRT has scheduled several upgrades and system maintenance events this weekend, starting on Friday evening, July 21.

• MyStorage and Personal Web resources will be unavailable beginning 6 p.m. on Friday, and will be unavailable intermittently until late Sunday.
• On Saturday evening (5 p.m. to 10 p.m.), several Banner-related systems will be unavailable, including Password Changing, New Accounts, and the People and Class Finders.
• On Sunday morning (6 a.m. until noon), some university resources will be unavailable, including email, network printing, voicemail, and library databases.

IRT hopes that this scheduled outage will result in minimal, if any, incovenience. If you have questions, please call the IRT Tech Desk, 651/962-6230, or email IRTHelp@stthomas.edu.

Summer Reading List Available Online

It's beach season: the perfect time to dig into a good book! The summer reading recommendations of the libraries' staff are now available. From erudite works of nonfiction to great books for young adults, you'll find them all here. Get some ideas and see what others are reading on the libraries' Summer Reading List 2006 web page.

Da Vinci Code Reference List

Jan Malcheski has created a Da Vinci Code reference list, in honor of the new movie opening this week.

In Memoriam: Jaroslav Pelikan (1923-2006)

Yale professor Jaroslav Pelikan, one of the world's foremost scholars of the history of Christianity, has died of lung cancer, his son said Monday. He was 82 years old. Mr. Pelikan wrote more than 30 books, using sources in nine languages and dealing with literacy and muscial as well as doctrinal aspects of religion. "For a man as talented and accomplished as he was, he was also exceptionally kind and genuinely humble," said his son Michael. From: Associated Press.

RefWorks Announces Direct Export from Google Scholar

Users of Google Scholar can now add citations from their searches directly to their RefWorks account, and so to their bibliographies. It's really easy - here is a short video tutorial on how to set this up.

RefWorks is a personal bibliographic software manager that is free of charge for all St. Thomas students, faculty, and staff. RefWorks makes managing bibliographic references easy and efficient, since users can either input citations manually or export citations directly from a number of the research databases at the UST libraries.

Access to RefWorks is available from the UST Libraries RefWorks Login page.