MetaLib Downtime

In order to install some system fixes it is necessary to bring MetaLib down for a short period this coming Sunday 12 June (from about 07:30 am – 11:00 am). We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

MetaLib Update #2

The issue with logging on to MetaLib with Athens is now fixed. Thank you for your patience whilst we get MetaLib and SFX up and running again.

MetaLib Update

Although the migration of our MetaLib portal to its new server has gone well, there are still some niggles to iron out. You won’t be able to log in to MetaLib and Athens at the moment, so we would recommend that you log in to MetaLib via EZproxy (CoSign) with your network account until we have the Athens login fixed.

MetaLib downtime

Our MetaLib search portal and SFX article linker will be intermittently unavailable this Sunday and Monday 21st-22nd March. We are migrating these two heavily-used services over to faster and bigger servers, and although we will try to keep both MetaLib and SFX up for as long as possible, at certain points in the process they will be down.

We hope the benefits of migrating to the new hardware will mitigate against the inconvenience of intermittent service over the two days.

System downtime

Owing to a hardware failure we are going to have to take our Catalogue and Self-Issue service offline for about 30 minutes this evening, beginning at 22:00 and hopefully back in business around 22:30. We apologise for any inconvenience.

MetaLib Downtime – Sunday 22 November 2009

Recent attempts to carry out maintenance on our MetaLib portal have been unsuccessful. We will need to take MetaLib offline again between 07:00 and 10:00 on Sunday 22nd November. This is to install essential service packs on the server. Both MetaLib and SFX will be intermittently unavailable during this period. The Catalogue will be unaffected. Again we apologise for the short notice and any inconvenience caused.

MetaLib Downtime – Wednesday 18th November 2009

We will need to take our MetaLib portal offline between 07:00 and 09:00 on Wednesday 18th November. This is to install essential service packs on the server. Both MetaLib and SFX will be intermittently unavailable during this period. The Catalogue will be unaffected. We apologise for the short notice and any inconvenience caused.

MetaLib Downtime

We will need to take our MetaLib portal offline between 19:00 and 22:00 on Saturday 14 November. This is to install essential service packs on the server. The Catalogue and SFX services will be unaffected. We apologise for the short notice and any inconvenience caused.

Library Systems Downtime

Wednesday 24 September 8.00am-9.30am

Owing to essential maintenance all Library systems should be considered unavailable within this brief period. This includes the Catalogue, and MetaLib. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. This work was originally scheduled for 17 September.

MetaLib Downtime

Apologies for the short notice, but we are taking MetaLib down today at 13:00 to apply a service pack. Estimated downtime is 30 mins, but it could be as long as 1 hour.

You can still get access to databases from our online databases list, and e-journals are accessible from the Catalogue. Off campus users will have to use the VPN service for this to work.