Weekend telephone procedures

Yo Saturday and Sunday People: As Lonnie tells us, when you go to lunch, forward the Info Desk phone to 4701 and tell the Loans staff that you're gone for an hour. However, when you close at 5:00, be sure to forward the phone to 8227, which is the voice mail. Don't just hit the forward button twice, as it will then forward to the last number it was instructed to use. The number 8227 is marked on the phone and the closing-up instructions.
Kendall

E-Zone Construction to begin

We have been notified that construction will begin in the Redpath E-Zone the week after Convocation Week (May 25 to June 1, 2007)
Level 1 of the Redpath Library Building will be revovated from that time through the end of September.
Expect some noise disruption (I expect not a lot at his end of the building complex)

Building heat

Hello Fellow Infernists,
To you who are suffering let me repeat some backgound info.
The cooling coils in the system are presently leaking or not operational. Work on the coils is being done during the evening (10pm to 6am) and will take 3-4 weeks to complete. During this time, at night the system will be off, and during the day the system will be on but there will be no cooling. When the work will be completed there should be a noticeable improvement in the cooling capabilities of your system for the summer months
They expect to have completed the work by 31 May. Relief is in sight.
Thanks for your patience.
Lonnie

ATM machine - news

To all:
Please be advised that we are proceeding with the removal of existing ATM machines today May 25th. (For details please read the information contained in the e-mails below.
The University has concluded an agreement with Royal Bank of Canada to supply a new ATM in your location. Unfortunately, there will be a delay in the installation of new ATM’s due to unforeseen delays in booking Bell Canada services for the dedicated lines.
Should you have any questions or concerns please call Leah Trineer at 1839.

Thank you for your cooperation
John Burke (3056)

McGill Hostile Intruder Protocol

Sent on behalf of: McGill Security Services
Subject: McGill Hostile Intruder Protocol

The following protocol was devised in consultation with security experts for the protection of McGill students, faculty, staff and visitors. Please pay careful attention to this protocol and note that it is available online at http://www.mcgill.ca/security/bulletins/hostile .

McGill University Hostile Intruder Protocol
These guidelines are recommendations based on observed behaviour in such situations and on what other institutions have learned from their own experiences with hostile intruders. Your actions may need to be adapted based on the dynamics of the situation at hand.

Catalogue Access Victoria Day weekend

From: Jane Aitkens
The upgrade to version 18 is happening this Sunday and Monday, May 20 and 21. Here are some things you need to know:
1) The tester server, DAVE, has been updated with a copy from "real life" as of Wednesday, May 15.
Staff needing to help users on Sunday (when there will be no real catalogue or Aleph clients) can consult DAVE to find call numbers: http://devaleph.mcgill.ca/F Please use DAVE for consultation ONLY - do NOT attempt to sign in and place holds - DAVE is not real!

e-journal archives (McGill's access)

Hi,
Some of you have asked me if we there is a list somewhere that would give us every e-journal archives that we have at McGill. In order to help you all manage your print serials collections here is where you can get the title lists for the different publishers:

- Blackwell Publishing:
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/Digitized_Backfiles.xls
- Elsevier ScienceDirect:
http://www.info.sciencedirect.com/content/journals/backfiles/
We are missing the Medicine Supplements I and II (Academic Press
Titles)
- Oxford U. Press:
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/access_purchase/complete_archive.html
- Springer:
http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/master
_A-Z%20list%20OJA%20journals%20Apr%2006.xls?SGWID=0-0-45-292989-0
- Wiley:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/aboutus/backfileCollections.html
For Wiley we already have most of their e-journal backfiles except for the following:
General Medicine
Oncology and Hematology
Education
Pharmacology and Toxicology
Business and Management
Healthcare and Policy Management
Natural Sciences & Taxonomy
Color research
- JSTOR: we have it all. http://www.jstor.org/about/collection.list.html
Louis

QP on Saturday!

Please remember that the Saturday person is responsible for periodically checking Chat e-mails. I will highlight the Saturday schedule as a YELLOW-BRIGHT REMINDER
Regards, Lonnie

IASSIST 2007

Info sheets regarding the IASSIST 2007 conference are available at the desk and are intended to visitors attending the conference. The info sheets provide location of workshops and presentations, registration info + maps of the campus.

Also, please expect visitors attending IASSIST coming in the HSSL library as of this Saturday (May 12th).

Switch to Aleph 18 - from Jane

The testing of the new version of the Aleph software is going well, thanks to all our "Alephtesters"!
We are ready to meet our scheduled date for switching to Aleph 18 - the May long weekend.

On the weekend of May 5, the Systems Office, together with NCS and ISR, did a 'dry run' of all the upgrade steps to figure out how much time the full upgrade will take. Using that data, we have determined that we will need all of Sunday, May 20 to do the upgrade steps and then Monday, May 21 to test things on the production ports (e.g. the AutoLoans) before we go live on Aleph18.

On Sunday, May 20, Education, Life Sciences and Humanities and Social Sciences are the only libraries open for circulation; all loans will have to be done manually. The AutoLoans and the Library Catalogue similarly will not be available from early Sunday morning until the time on Monday when we go live on Aleph 18.

Monday, May 21, all libraries are closed - this will be our "testing day". The Catalogue will appear, and then at some point, disappear for a backup. Once the backup is done, the Catalogue will reappear, and Aleph 18 will be in production!

On Tuesday, staff will begin to do their work using Aleph18 - new clients will be deployed.

The website which documents the coming changes to the clients and to the Library Catalogue is: http://www.library.mcgill.ca/aleph/version18/whats_new_in_18.htm

If you wish to follow the upgrade process, the webpage to watch is: http://www.library.mcgill.ca/aleph/upgrade16

Finding items with K call numbers on the 3rd floor – McLennan Building - Humanities & Social Sciences Library

Until LC began to publish class K for law, a 50 year project finally completed in 2001, law books were assigned only the letter K (LC had announced that K would be law). The second line of the call number was the Cutter number for the author (or if no author, title).

The material is recognizable in the online catalogue by the existence of a space between the alpha digits.

For example:
K A2 1981 [Regular Loan] Humanities and Social Sciences McLennan Bldg

There are approximately 100 shelves of K call numbers on the 3rd floor. This material is shelved BEFORE the items with call numbers of the official LC “K” classification.

As each subclass of K was published, McGill started using it. The full LC classification schedule is now available and online at http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco_k.pdf .

Subclass K (K followed by a number) is for a particular area or subject of law in general, without regard to a jurisdiction (country, etc.) Thus a general discussion of the law of contracts would be classed at K840.

Other subclasses follow, based on the country (always letters), subdivided by the subject. For example, the law of contracts in Canada would be classed at KE840, and the law of contracts in Quebec would be classed at KEQ390. (Note that the subject numbers are not always the same from jurisdiction to jurisdiction).

The last of the K subclasses is KZ for international law. A book on the law of treaties would be classed at KZ1301.

The rule for finding the material on the shelves is that “Nothing comes before something, and numbers come before letters.”

K
A2 1981

K 970
R47
2000

KE394
L38
1995

To find the item with the call number KB H64 L39 [Regular Loan] Humanities and Social Sciences McLennan Bldg, which has received an official LC “K” call number, it is first necessary to skip over the items on the 100+ shelves of K A2 through K Z1653.

In April 2007, the beginning of the official LC “K” call number range can be seen on the catalogue screen below.


The third entry on the call number browse index K10 O8715 - - Journal of Islamic and comparative law. -- is the beginning of the official LC “K” call numbers. All previous K numbers are incomplete, from the old way of assigning the books an interim law call number.

S. Rankin and L. Robertson
April 20, 2007

weekend info

A couple of things to mention:
- for the Saturday and Sunday staff at Info desk, a reminder to put up the sign indicating that you will be away from the desk until 00:00, and please remember to call Lending/Access to inform them that you are going for lunch and ask them what # you should be forwarding the phone to. Usually it's 4701.
- Facilities dept. is changing the duct/ventilation system. The lack of air circulation we are experiencing will continue until the first week in June. Work started shortly after exam time, the reasoning being that May was not too hot a period to do such work.
Lonnie

Donation procedures

Hi. It's approaching moving day in Montreal and we receive many calls from people who want to give us their books. We rarely want to accept what is on offer because 1)we usually have the material already, 2)we are out of space and 3)we have a cataloguing backlog of over 200,000 items. However, there is a file kept of such offers in the old collections office, so please refer any calls you receive at the reference desk about gifts to Nancy Crowe. Ditto for books offered at the ref desk. Refer them to Nancy. She will speak to the appropriate liaison librarian and they will decide whether or not to ask for a list and how to proceed.
Thanks,
Elaine

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Post office in 2020 University

There is a Post office in 2020 University. Entrance on de Maisonneuve Blvd, the doors for Indiana's Restaurant. It is on the street level behind the escalators. (SR)

MCL Carrels - update from LW

Further to the carrel situation, carrels that were at the interior perimiters facing the stairwells have been removed to make room for additional badly-needed shelving. The carrels have been moved to the study areas of those floors. There will be the same number of carrels, displaced though they may be. This does not alter the web site info about the carrels and application for them. ( email from LW - May 4, 2007)

Post Office

Occasionally library users (students or tourists) ask for directions to the nearest post office. I had been directing them to the one on University, just south of St. Catherine. (I believe there is also a postal counter in a drugstore in Complexe Les Ailes but explaining how to get there can be complicated.) This post office has now moved to 800 Rene-Levesque, in an office tower beside the Queen Elizabeth hotel.

CP

Air conditioning work in MCL/REDPATH

I have received the following information that the cooling coils will be replaced in the McLennan Redpath Library Buildings. This will no doubt cause some short term inconvenience but result in long term improvements to what has at times been a difficult situation.
Your understanding of some difficulties during the replacement period would be much appreciated. This will affect primarily those who work in the buildings but I am sending it to all staff so that those of you who visit the buildings will be aware of the work being undertaken.
email from J. Schmidt, May 2, 2007.

EZONE construction this summer

We are about to begin the construction of the new E-Zone on the street level of Redpath (S1). This wonderful new space will provide our students, researchers, faculty and staff with an architecturally designed environment that supports a new e-classroom, group study rooms and study booths, extensive laptop, computer and study space, a n assignment production area, comfortable lounge space and service desk.

Construction is scheduled to start in the middle of May and should be ready in September 2007.

The current Redpath S1 study/computer space will be closed beginning Thursday May 3rd at 8:00 am and will remain closed until we launch the new E-Zone.

Access to the compact shelving and stacks located in the basement level of Redpath (S2) will be provided through the central Redpath staircase only. Contractors will be working in the stack area of S2 over the summer. Access will occasionally be restricted to staff only. Closure dates will be posted in advance. We shall also be proceeding with the installation of additional compactus shelving in the lower Redpath basement, this project will be timed to work in with the other building work being undertaken. email from J. Schmidt ( May 2,2007)