News and comment from the world of IT
Opening secured pdf documents downloaded from the British Standards Online database or received from the British Library through our Interlibrary Loans Service should be simple but it is often not because of the mess of digital rights management software embedded …
Information Services have replaced the touchscreen information points in the library. These allow you to do anything from searching the library catalogue to looking up the timetable for the University bus. Have a play and see what they offer.
We’ve added a handy new tool to the library homepage that displays the number of available PCs and laptops. Drawn from near real-time usage data, this little display gives you a good idea of just how busy the library is at any particular time and might help you decide whether it is worth carrying in your own laptop or finding a library desktop or laptop to use or borrow.
More and more of you prefer your own powerful tech to the existing library PCs, which while they are replaced regularly quickly pale in comparison with the breakneck pace of laptop and even tablet development in general. That’s why we are trialling large, curved screen displays, full-size keyboards and mice just waiting for you to plug in your device (or at a push, one of our loanable laptops) and play. Scan the QR code taped to the table beside these devices and let us know what you think and if you would like to see more of these elsewhere on campus.
Library eresources are temporarily unavailable off campus for all users, even those using the VPN. It is possible to access these resources in the Library building, which is open until midnight tonight and from 10 am – 4 pm on Saturday. Unfortunately, we cannot contact the team who can resolve this problem until Monday. We are very sorry for this horribly timed technical fault.
Plug your chosen device into one of our plug-in-and-play stations on the first floor and enjoy the use of a mouse, full-size keyboard and a monitor so large it had to be made curved for you to be able to see everything from side to side without moving! It’s the best of all possible worlds: the power and customizability of your own device with the luxury of a dedicated, modern desktop setup and peripherals.
The now antiquated Microsoft Internet Explorer browser will no longer be supported by Microsoft after 15 June 2022. If for some reason you are still using this older browser, please upgrade to something more modern in order to continue enjoying a high quality experience using university services and library eresources.
Those not currently marvelling at how many networked desktop computers available on the ground floor in the Library are probably wondering how they can most easily work flexibly where they want with a laptop. You are welcome to bring in …
While the UoP-Guest network remains the only wifi network available in the Library, we are hoping to make 200 networked computers available. This is only enough computers for a third of the students we can allow into the Library at …
I have seen too many students over the years in tears because they have lost their dissertation or other work just before a deadline to let it happen again. As you begin your first assignments of the year in earnest, …
