UPDATE: The Suffolk Universities Libraries (Sawyer, Law NESAD, Madrid) are migrating to a new automated platform on July 24th.
Much of Sawyer Library’s online functionality (and the functionality
of the Law, NESAD and Madrid Libraries) will be unavailable for most of the day
on Wednesday, July 24, 2013.
The Library is migrating our Innovative Millennium System to
the new Sierra platform, in order to establish improved functionality in
library operations.
What does that mean to users? The Library systems will
be down from 4-6 hours. This means the
catalog will not be accessible. You
cannot look up books in the online catalog, look at your circulation record, or
renew books online. Checking-out a
book at the Sawyer Library will be handled manually on the 24th. Since our off-campus authentication system,
our proxy server, is also part of our Innovative Millennium System, you will
not be able to access databases from off-campus on much of that day. If
you are ON campus, the database should pick up a Suffolk IP address and let you
in, so if you can visit the Boston (or Madrid) Campus--and it doesn't have to
be the Library itself--you should still be able to access the databases through
non-proxyized links that you can find here. (Just click the tabs on
the guide for the alphabetical lists of links to all our databases.)
And here is another work-around. The free web version
of WorldCat allows you to look up a
print book and then set your zip code to pinpoint a library that owns it.
Set your zip code as 02108 and Sawyer or the Law Library should come up if we
own it. If you click the link for our book or library, you might get an
error but if that happens, just click on a different library on the list and
get the call number from their catalog. Since most academic libraries use
the same call number, you can take their call number to our stacks and probably
find the book. If you are ON campus, you can also use this version of
WorldCat. Look for the green tag for "Sawyer Library" when you
search. The base call number will be listed in the "Class
Descriptors" field following LC:
We are sorry for any inconvenience this service interruption
will cause. But we are doing this to provide a better, more flexible, and
more secure library system that will make it easier for us to provide the best
library service possible.
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