Due to severe weather forecast conditions, the Library's Study Hubs and Pickup Service will be closed聽on Monday, January 17, 2022.聽
Electronic resources can be聽accessed聽in the .
Questions? Ask Us!聽The Library鈥檚 virtual reference service is available Monday to Friday 10 am 鈥� 6 pm, Saturday and Sunday 12 pm 鈥� 5 pm.
will be retiring their classic OverDrive app at the end of 2022 and moving users over to their . Existing users of the classic app will be able to continue using it until the end of the year, however the app will be removed from Apple App Store, Google Play and Microsoft Store on February 23, 2022. Access to the will continue without change.聽
91社区 students, faculty and staff can now connect remotely to Library workstations in order to use specialized software that may not be available on personal computers. Use to locate an available library workstation. Access the workstation remotely using Microsoft Remote Desktop. .
Please note that:
IT Services in collaboration with the Library is happy to announce that 91社区 students, faculty and staff can now access Gartner, a new resource that provides expert analysis and opinion on IT-related topics at the intersection of business and technology.
Updated January 10, 2022 at 10:03am: This issue has been resolved. Thanks聽for your patience.
The Library鈥檚 is currently experiencing an issue where links to individual books are leading to an error page.
We're working with the vendor to investigate and will keep you updated.
We thank you for your patience and understanding.
In response to new measures announced by 91社区 and the Government of Quebec to slow the spread of the Omicron variant, the Library is temporarily closing most physical spaces and all stack areas to the 91社区 community and reinstating four services: Study Hubs, HathiTrust Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS), a temporary Pickup Service, and the ROAAr Digitization on Demand Service.
The 91社区 Library is aligning its branch activities during the first week of the Winter 2022 semester with general 91社区 directives outlined in the allnote sent out to 91社区 students, faculty and staff dated Friday, December 17.
An excerpt from the message reads:
Directives in effect December 24, 2021 to January 9, 2022
Updated December 8 at 9:10am
This issue has been resolved. Thank you for your patience.
A current technical issue is affecting access to 91社区's聽e-books.
Taylor & Francis webpages are either saying that 鈥測ou don鈥檛 seem to have access鈥� or that 鈥測our institution has not purchased this content鈥�.
We have alerted the publisher & apologize for any inconvenience. We will keep you updated. Thank you.
Updated December 2 at 4:22pm.聽
This technical issue has been resolved. Thank you for your understanding.
The Library is聽currently experiencing聽an issue affecting authenticated access to online resources via EZproxy.聽Please use VPN as an alternate method of authentication while the issue is being investigated.
Please check this news item for more updates on the situation.聽
We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience.
As of Wednesday, December 1, the 91社区 community can take advantage of a new, heated, outdoor area.聽
Heaters in the tent located on the McLennan-Redpath terrace will聽provide 91社区 students, staff and faculty with a safe, warm, space聽to聽take a break, dine, study,聽and socialize.
Heaters will be operational Monday to Friday, from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM (excluding holidays).
Updated December 3, 9:25am
The week of November 22, the Library was experiencing two issues impacting user experience for Wiley and OverDrive e-book titles in which only a small portion of the Library's Wiley e-book titles were underrepresented in the Sofia catalogue and OverDrive holdings were overrepresented.
The original issue for Wiley has been fixed but the OverDrive issue, outlined below, is still outstanding.
Thank you for your patience as this technical issue is resolved.
Updated December 21, 2021
All聽Library branches will close at 5:00PM聽on Tuesday, December 21, 2021 and will reopen on Monday, January 10, 2022.聽
The聽Library聽is excited to announce an open access agreement with Karger Publishing.
As of聽January 1, 2022, 91社区 corresponding authors submitting to Karger journals will have the option to make their work open access at no cost.聽聽
Note the following exceptions however:聽
Beginning in December, two branches will be open later to give you more time to study and get your work done.
From Wednesday, December 1 to Tuesday, December 21, the McLennan-Redpath Library Complex and the Nahum Gelber Law Library聽will be open for study purposes 24 hours per day, 7聽days a week.
Please note that:
As of December 1, 91社区 students are able to access the Nahum Gelber Law Library 24 hours a day, seven days a week. As agreed between the Students' Society of 91社区 (SSMU) and the Law Students Association (LSA), the Nahum Gelber Law Library will limit access to the three upper floors of the library to Law students only during the December 7 to 21 examination period. Details are as follows:
- Floors 3, 4 and 5 will be limited to Law students from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Monday through Friday during the two-week period.
