New Redpath washrooms closed Oct. 30 until Nov. 2
The new washrooms on the 1st floor of the Redpath Library Building will be closed from 7am Friday, October 30 until 7am Monday, November 2. Contractors will be making adjustments to the space during this time.
Additional washrooms are available below the main McLennan entrance and on the Cyberthèque floor, next to the café.
Thank you for your understanding and we apologize for any inconvenience.
October 23, 12am - Links to Library e-resources won't work for up to 4 hours (EZproxy downtime)
Links to McGill Library e-resources will not work as expected early Friday morning, October 23, 2015 starting at 12:00am for up to 4 hours, due to scheduled maintenance to the EZproxy authentication system.
FIXED: WorldCat and other OCLC services restored
UPDATE, October 16, 4:40pm: WorldCat and other OCLC services are now available and appear to be functioning normally.
UPDATE, October 16, 12:50pm: WorldCat is now available and functioning as expected. We are still experiencing problems with the Find Full Text link resolver in Library-licensed databases. We'll update here as soon as more information is available. Thank you for your understanding.
CANCELLED: October 15 - EZproxy downtime
The EZproxy system maintenance that was scheduled for Thursday, October 15, 2015 at 9:00pm has been cancelled. Links to McGill Library e-resources and the EZproxy authentication system should continue to work as expected.
We apologize for any confusion.
Find out more about accessing online Library resources.
FIXED: Problem with interlibrary loan links in the Find Full Text WorldCat Link Resolver
UPDATE, October 6, 2015: This issue has been resolved. Initiating interlibrary loan requests from the Find Full Text (WorldCat Link Resolver) page is working as expected. Thank you for your understanding.
October 2, 2015:
The McGill Library Sprint!
We’ve put together a fun, interactive online orientation scavenger hunt that will help you:
Interlibrary Loans and Document Delivery team wins 2014-15 Principal’s Award
McGill Library’s Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery has been named as one of the winners of the prestigious 2014-15 Principal’s Award for Administrative and Support Staff (Team Projects), honouring their customer and community service, quality of work, innovation, teamwork and sustainability.
Library Blogs, Library Matters unavailable Tuesday, September 15, 8:30am to 9am
McGill Library Blogs and Library Matters will be unavailable Tuesday, September 15, 2015 from 8:30am to 9am for scheduled maintenance.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
UPDATED: WorldCat Local and other OCLC services restored
Updated 12:25 PM: WorldCat Local and other OCLC services are now available and functioning normally.
WorldCat Local and other OCLC services are currently unavailable.
OCLC is aware of the issue and is investigating.
We will report back with more information as soon as we have an update.
We apologize for any inconvienience this might cause.
Downtime for Classic Catalogue and other Library systems, Saturday night/Sunday morning
Due to scheduled maintenance this weekend, the following services and systems will be unavailable for approximately 4 hours beginning at 12:30am, early Sunday morning, August 30:
Classic Catalogue Library loans and auto-loan machines (no borrowing will be possible during the downtime) Availability information for physical items in McGill WorldCatWe apologize for any inconvenience.
eScholarship@McGill, eTheses, eExams unavailable Wednesday, August 26, 6:00am to 8:00am
eScholarship@McGill, including eTheses, eExams and other locally digitized material, will be unavailable Wednesday, August 26, 2015 from 6:00am until 8:00am due to regular server maintenance.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Subject guides now available using LibGuides
Today the Library launched our subject guides on LibGuides, a specialized publishing system that makes it easier for us to provide you with helpful information that is easy to find and use.
You can access these guides as you normally would through the Subject Guide links on the home page.
WorldCat system issue has been resolved
Update: Friday, August 14 at 4:44 PM
OCLC is reporting that the system issue has been resolved. They recommend that anyone still experiencing issues with the WorldCat service clear your browser cache and try again.
If you continue to experience issues with WorldCat, please let us know!
Preview of upcoming changes to Library home page
Unfortunately, we have had to scale back our plans for making changes to the design of the Library home page.
Instead, we will be limiting ourselves to making a few small changes to the content displayed in the current design.
Specifically:
Math Collection housed in the Edward Rosenthall Library to move this summer
The Department of Mathematics and Statistics will be transforming the former Library space on the 11th floor of Burnside Hall over the upcoming year in order to meet the teaching and learning needs of students and faculty. To facilitate this space transformation, the McGill Library will relocate the library collection and merge this material with the rest of the math and statistic collections currently housed in other branch libraries.