OCLC, the library technology company that provides our EZProxy off-campus access, will be down for maintenance June 4-5. This may affect off campus access for the ULM Library and access to OCLC WorldCat during that time.
As we have communicated in previous
messages, OCLC is undertaking a significant investment in our
technological infrastructure. We are evolving our data center strategy,
upgrading equipment and infrastructure, and standardizing
processes globally to increase service responsiveness. These
investments will advance our service delivery for years to come so that
together we can better meet library users̢۪ increasing expectations.
This
year-long effort is well underway. Much of the work is occurring behind
the scenes. Some of these transitions require scheduled downtime for
services.
As part of this initiative, all OCLC services will
be unavailable from 9:00 pm Saturday, 4 June 2016, to 12:00 pm (noon)
Sunday, 5 June 2016, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) US (UTC -4) while we
conduct data storage migrations.
While we scheduled this
maintenance event to occur during a slower time for many of our member
libraries, we understand that this event still impacts many. We
apologize in advance for any disruption to you and your users.
As
always, system activities and schedules can be viewed on our System
Alerts page on the OCLC website. We will communicate through the System
Alerts page if there are any changes or delays in completing this
scheduled work, and we will also use this page to let you know when this
work has been completed. Contact your local customer support team if
you have any questions about this upcoming event.
We are
committed to the ongoing enhancement of our systems, infrastructure and
processes, and we will continue to advance our delivery to you. Thank
you for your continued support.