Friday, August 28, 2009

8/28 - Library Catalog Upgrade & Downtime

PALS (http://www.mnpals.org/) is upgrading the online catalog for all MnPALS Libraries, including the Darrell W. Krueger Library, to improve database quality and search consistency. In order to accomplish this, portions of the online catalog will be down from 5:00 pm, Friday, August 28 until 8:00 am, Monday, August 31, 2009.

Although students, faculty, and staff will be able to search the catalog, some features and functionality will be unavailable during this time. Patrons will be unable to log-in to renew books, place holds, or view the current status of individual records. In order to make the catalog available during the upgrade, a snapshot of the catalog was taken on Friday, August 21, which means that items placed on Course Reserve since Friday, August 21, will not be reflected in the library online catalog. Circulation (item check-out) and Interlibrary Loan service will be available through alternate means. Interlibrary loan requests may be entered using the blank form. All requests will be forwarded to an email account. The requests will be on hold in that account until Monday morning after 8 am when the staff will manually input each request in the order in which it was received.

Thank you for your patience during this upgrade.