Hawaii Voyager down over Thanksgiving weekend

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Message From UH Voyager Systems Office
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Due to a fumigation project affecting Sinclair Library on Manoa campus, we will be shutting down the UH Voyager library servers after 4pm on Wednesday November 25th (Thanksgiving Eve).  After we get the all clear from the fumigation company, we may be able to bring the library servers back up by the evening of the 27th at the earliest.

The nature of this project requires that all of the air conditioning units in the basement of Sinclair Library be shut down during the fumigation, and our library servers cannot handle the high temperatures that will result after the AC is turned off for such a long period of time.

We apologize for any inconvenience that this will cause.

Grad Student Workshop: Tools for Staying Current

You may have noticed that we are starting to put together a series of workshops on topics of interest to science graduate students. There is one more of these workshops this semester and there are still seats available!

Next week Thursday, I will be presenting “Taking Control: Tools for Staying Current on Your Research Topic”. I will talk about using online tools to stay current in your area of study. We will explore ways to receive alerts about new publications and use RSS feeds to keep tabs on what’s going on in your field. The session will be hands on, so you’ll leave the workshop with a Google Reader account set up and ready to keep you updated. The workshop is on 12 November from 11:00 am to noon. Sign up here today to reserve your seat!

International Year of Astronomy Lecture Series

November 18, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Manoa Campus, Hamilton Library, Room 301

“Sacred Mountains and Astronomy”

Paul H. Coleman

This talk will center on the often strained relationship between modern astronomers and indigenous peoples with their sacred mountains. Examples from the Tahono O’odham, San Carlos Apache, and Zuni tribes will be presented. Finally the situations on Maunakea and Haleakala will be presented.

Ticket Information
free & open to the public

Event Sponsor
Cosponsored by the Institute for Astronomy, the Friends of IfA, and UH Library, Manoa Campus

More Information
Teri Skillman, 956-8688, skillman@hawaii.edu, http://library.manoa.hawaii.edu/about/news/libevents/events2009.html

ScienceDirect Outage Tomorrow, 31 Oct 2009

From our Electronic Resources Librarian:

ScienceDirect, the online platform for Elsevier journals, will be down for scheduled maintenance this Saturday, Oct. 31, starting at 3 p.m. Hawaii time. The outage is scheduled to last until midnight of the same day. The University of Hawaii at Manoa currently has access to approximately 2,000 journals via ScienceDirect.

GIS Day – 4 November 2009

Manoa MAGIS of the UH-Manoa Library is pleased to announce that we will be celebrating GIS (Geographic Information System) day for the first time ever on November 4, 2009. Under the auspices of the Library Forum we will host two speakers on GIS related topics.

Where: Room 301 of the Hamilton Library at the University of Hawaii at Manoa Campus.

When: 9.30 am and 11. am, refreshments at 9 am.

Details as as follows:
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First Speaker, 9.30 am
Title: Role of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the Social Sciences—some applications.
Speaker: Shriram Bhutada, GIS Specialist, Extension Faculty, Center on the Family, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

There has been growing interest in application of GIS in social sciences recently. The intent of this presentation is to provide an introduction to the role of GIS in social sciences. GIS can play various roles in social science research such as geovisualization, spatiotemporal analysis, information integration and geographically weighted regression. Some examples of GIS projects will also be discussed. Additionally, the audience will be introduced to geocoding and custom geocoding programming along with a list of available GIS and non-GIS data sources.

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Second Speaker, 11 am.
Title: Global Positioning System – GPS 101
Speaker: Karyn Nolan, President, Pacific GPS.

This presentation will give an overview of basic GPS principles including sources of error, GPS settings, accuracy requirements and differential correction (real time and post processed). We will focus on Trimble Mapping and GIS hardware and software and also discuss Geographical Information Systems (GIS) integration.
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Refreshments are being sponsored by the American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing.

PubMed Interface Changes Implemented TODAY!

PubMed (Medline) has a completely redesigned interface that went live today. Many of the enhancements are not major changes, but the look and feel is quite different and may be confusing to some regular users. The articles at the links below provide explanations of the changes.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so09/so09_pm_redesign.html

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so09/so09_pm_now_redesign.html

FSTA Direct service interruption

From our Electronic Resources Librarian:

There will be a brief interruption to our FSTA Direct service from 10:00 am HST to approximately 2:00 pm HST on Friday 23 October for the application of updates and server maintenance.

Update on FindIt button outage

More from our Electronic Resources Librarian:

The potential FindIt button outage we alerted you to last week has been rescheduled to begin at 9 p.m. HST on Friday, Oct. 23. The planned upgrade should take about 2 hours, but could last up to 6 hours. Again, this potential outage would only affect linking directly to articles from database searches and the Electronic Journals and Books page. You will still be able to find electronic journals, books and databases via the Library’s Electronic Resources page.

Potential FindIt button outage

From our Electronic Resources Librarian:

The FindIt button, which allows for one-click access from database searches to full-text articles, may be unavailable next Friday, Oct. 23, due to a system upgrade. The upgrade is scheduled to take place between 3 and 9 p.m. HST. The Library’s Electronic Journals and Books page may also be unavailable during this period.

Sinclair Fumigation Notice – 25 to 28 Nov 2009

Ever since the devastating flash flood in October 2004, the UH Manoa Library Government Documents Department has been temporarily housing part of their collection in Sinclair Library. The rebuilding of their space in the ground floor of Hamilton Library is almost complete and they are scheduled to move back into Hamilton Library during the early part of December. Before this can happen, their collection must be fumigated in order to avoid transporting pests. The fumigation has been scheduled for Thanksgiving weekend. Therefore, Sinclair Library building will be closed to all UH personnel including non-library departments and the general public from Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 4:00pm to Saturday, November 28th at 12:00pm or until the all clear is given. Please plan accordingly.