Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Hourly parking changes

December 8, 2009

To: UCSC Community
Fr: Larry Pageler, Transportation and Parking Services Director
Re: Changes to hourly parking on January 4th

Two changes will occur for hourly parkers beginning Monday, January 4, 2010: all campus meters and paystations will require payment from 7:00 am to 8:30 pm (making them consistent with parking meters), and the paystations in the Performing Arts (PA) lot will begin operating for weekday daytime use. The eight meters currently in the PA lot will be removed, and 17 spaces will be designated for paystation parking.

The cost for all meter and paystation parking is $1.50 per hour. Meters accept nickels, dimes and quarters only; paystations accept nickels, dimes, quarters, $1 coins, $1 and $2 bills, Visa, and Mastercard. Paystations cannot provide change or refunds, but can accept early payments beginning at 5:30 am. After 4:30 pm weekdays, and all day on weekends, paystations allow a $3 flat rate for parking until 8:30 pm (in addition to smaller increments of time); the flat rate allows parking in the entire lot, not just in designated paystation spaces. Paystations can be found at the Core West Parking Structure, Hahn Student Services, East Field House, and the Performing Arts lot; all have a two-hour limit except for Hahn, which has a one-hour limit.

Because paystations offer multiple payment options, if any single payment method becomes inoperable, another method can be selected. In the event of malfunction, please call 459-4543 to report the problem. Parking is not allowed in pay stalls without payment, so if a paystation is malfunctioning please find another location to park; otherwise Parking Enforcement (Campus Police) may cite your vehicle.

McH Ref Desk hours: 12/9/09-3/18/10

Hours for December 9, 2009-January 4, 2010:
Wed, Dec. 9th: 10am-9pm

Thurs, Dec. 10th: 10am-5pm

Mon, Dec. 14th-Fri, Dec 18th: 1pm-5pm

Mon, Jan. 4, 2010: 10am-5pm

Hours for January 5-March 18, 2010 (Regular quarter hrs):
Monday-Thursday 10am-9pm

Friday 10am-5pm

Saturday Closed

Sunday 1pm-5pm

Friday, December 4, 2009

Reminder: Extended library hours until 12/8

Exceptions:
Wednesday November 11 CLOSED
Wednesday, November 25 10am - 5pm
Thursday, November 26 CLOSED
Friday, November 27 CLOSED
Tuesday, December 1 10am-2am*
Wednesday, December 2 10am-2am*
Thursday, December 3 10am-2am*
Friday, December 4 10am-10pm*
Saturday, December 5 11am-7pm*
Sunday, December 6 10am-2am*
Monday, December 7 10am-2am*
Tuesday, December 8 10am-2am*

* For Finals Week extended study hours, there will be limited services after normal Library hours.

http://library.ucsc.edu/hours

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Economist Intelligence Unit Profiles and Reports database

There is an additional step once you get into this database to be able to have access to country profiles, reports, profiles, etc. Click on "Enterprise Client Access" in the lower left part of the screen. That is the only way you get to the data. I have added this note to the database description in Drupal.

LexisNexis interface changing

Just a reminder that the LexisNexis interface is changing this month. I just checked and it's not up yet, but this announcement makes it sound like it's coming very soon.

-Lucia

The newly enhanced LexisNexis® Academic

The latest version of LexisNexis Academic
unveils enhancements – driven by student user testing – designed to make it
even easier to use:


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Redesigned Easy Search form is the default
home page

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Six widgets to help students conduct basic research tasks

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Additional content added for an Environmental Studies search form

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Navigation presents all options in a single menu

The result? Quicker access to the most commonly used content.

To learn more about the changes to LexisNexis Academic, visit our wiki… now the source of a new LexisNexis Academic Help section.