Bryn Mawr College

Dear Members of the Bryn Mawr College Community, This is the second message from Information Services this summer detailing significant changes to our services and staffing patterns for the 2009-2010 academic year. This message details changes to policy and procedures affecting: Faculty placing materials on reserve Students checking out reserve materials Students with carrels in Canaday Anyone who borrows library materials Book and Video Reserves in Canaday Faculty: Effective immediately, Canaday Library will accept requests for reserve materials via an online form only.  The forms can be found here: Request Book reserves in Canaday: https://brynmawr.wufoo.com/forms/book-reserve-request/ Request Video reserves in Canaday: https://brynmawr.wufoo.com/forms/video-reserve-request/ All Canaday ... Read more»

Dear Members of the Bryn Mawr College Community, Information Services will be making significant changes to our services and staffing patterns for the 2009-2010 academic year. Some of these changes will affect you more directly than others. Many of these changes respond to two primary factors: 1) recommendations that you have given us in surveys for an easier-to-navigate organization with more unmediated services and, 2) the need to provide service in a more resource-constrained environment. Over the course of the summer you will receive a series of emails detailing: Library Circulation & Reserves Submitting reserve requests online Open reserve shelves Self check-out The Help Desk & Guild Computer ... Read more»

Bryn Mawr Blogs and Forums will be unavailable on Friday evening beginning at 6:00 PM for a scheduled migration to a new server. This includes all "blogs.brynmawr.edu" and "forums.brynmawr.edu" pages. This migration has been tested, and based on the results of that test, we expect the outage to last less than 30 minutes. If you have any questions or concerns about this outage, please direct them to the Help Desk (x7440 or help@brynmawr.edu). Thanks, Andrew Lacey Web Applications and Systems Administrator alacey@brynmawr.edu 610-526-5630

Our Zimbra update was completed successfully at 9pm this evening.

From: Janet Scannell Shortly, Information Services will begin managing the updates that all college-owned computers receive to their Windows XP or Macintosh operating systems. Updates will be tested in advance and then distributed overnight. This process will be piloted in April and May and will begin campus-wide starting in June. Below is a summary of points of interest. If you want more detail about this change please visit: http://www.brynmawr.edu/computing/WorkstationMaintenance.shtml For Desktop Users: This will affect both Mac and Windows computers. Patching your computer software will require a reboot. If a machine is on the network it will be ... Read more»

Blackboard will be unavailable for approximately an hour, beginning at 7:00 AM this Thursday morning.  Our colleagues at Swarthmore need to physically relocate one of the database servers which Blackboard uses.  We expect this outage to be uneventful, and to be over by 8:00 am.

The College Voicemail system has encountered a serious hardware problem will be unavailable until further notice.  Some phones may still have a red voicemail light, but the voicemail system is unreachable from both on- and off- campus. At this time, we do not have an expectation as to when service will be restored. This outage does not effect cellular phones or cell phone voicemail. Amy Pearlman Head of Support Services for David Bertagni Head of Networking and Telecommunications