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Library fees and fines increase on July 1st

Effective July 1, 2009, library fees and fines will change.

-Overdue charge for regular items: $9 per item
-Overdue charge for reserves items: $5 first hour or partial hour; $2 for each hour thereafter; $75 maximum
-Billing/processing charge for items over 45 days past due: $20 per item

For more details and information:

http://library.ucsc.edu/services/billing

Summer dining on campus

Here's a link to Dining Services page for eating on campus during the summer. There is a link at the bottom to a one-page PDF listing all of the open dining halls and coffeeshops.

http://housing.ucsc.edu/dining/dining-halls.html

Bon appetit!

Summer stat sheets

To conserve paper, and since we have reduced hours, Laura has created half-sheet size stat sheets for the summer. The new ones are on the clipboard, and more are in the vertical file drawer under a pink label "Statistic Sheets."

Problems with EBSCO on Library Commons Macs

Firefox users may see a "proxy error" message when searching EBSCO databases (e.g. Academic Search Complete, Historical Abstracts, etc) on Macs with 10.5 in the Library Commons. Usually they can get past this by reloading the page. If that's annoying they may want to use Safari for their EBSCO searching. See Fish's note below for more detail as well as news of a fix forthcoming.

Hi,

Apparently there was an issue yesterday with an EBSCO database search on one of the info commons iMacs. This is a known issue that effects certain databases. There is something buggy with firefox running on 10.5 machines. we have tried many things to work out what the problem is without success.

If you do get a browser error on firefox when doing a search you can hit reload on the page and the search usually loads fine, otherwise Safari should be used.

I am building a brand new image from scratch due to some other network related bugs - working with an apple engineer it was determined that there may have been some corrupt files on these machines. I am hopeful that the bugs and annoying quirks will be resolved once the new image is rolled out.

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Andrew 'Fish' Phipps

Print card dispenser and bills accepted

There is a white sign now posted on the print card dispenser that says "This machine ONLY accepts ONE DOLLAR BILLS". It's not clear if this was posted by Copier Services. The machine used to allow five and ten-dollar bills to be used as long as they weren't "new". Now, only one-dollar bills are accepted. So a patron today had purchased a card already, but only had and needed to add a five-dollar bill to it. So she had to use the change machine to break the $5 bill into 20 quarters, and then using the copy machine tower, drop the quarters one by one to add the $5 value to her card. Needless to say, this was very frustrating for her. So I just wanted to clarify for those who didn't realize it, that if someone wants to add anything other than a one-dollar bill, that is what they'll have to do (or break a larger bill somehow).

Library hours update for summer

Library hours for the rest of the summer (June 22nd-September 23rd) have been updated. For McHenry Library hours are Monday-Friday 12pm-8pm, and S & E Library hours are Monday-Friday 9am-5pm. Both libraries will be closed on weekends during the summer.

This info is available on the desk under the glass, and in the flyers kiosk.

(Revised post 6/24/09 LM)

Ref Desk hours pilot

Our hours at the Ref Desk for June 12th-July 24th will be Monday-Friday 1pm-5pm. Stay tunes for updates for hours after July 24th.