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OCLC is planning routine system maintenance on its data centers on May 16, 2019 between 3:00 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. ET. This will include EZProxy, which will make Connecticut State Library Collections in Ancestry.com unavailable at some point during that time.

Sorry, make that "list of all EBSCO titles in researchIT CT..."

Newly updated consolidated & dedup'd list of all titles in researchIT CT: is.gd/sDXG8k

OCLC system maintenance is scheduled for March 10, 2019 from 12:00 a.m.-6:00 a.m. ET. This could impact CT State Library Collections in Ancestry.com during that time.

EBSCO will be performing scheduled maintenance on Wed., Mar. 13, 2019 from 9am to ca. 1pm EDT. Patrons will not be able to check out, download, or place holds on eBooks in both the desktop and mobile experiences during this time. For more details, see is.gd/6ViI8m

FYI, from Recorded Books: RBdigital will be down for maintenance on Wednesday, January 30, 2019. The process will begin at 5 a.m. ET and take 60 minutes or less. This will affect eAudiobooks and eBooks.

OCLC has announced that system maintenance affecting EZProxy (hosted) will occur today (Wed., 1/16/19) from 3 p.m.-6 p.m. ET. This means that Connecticut State Library digital collections in Ancestry may be unavailable at times during this maintenance period.

ProQuest has scheduled time for maintenance on January 19, 2019 for many of its products. The resulting product downtime will begin at 10:00 p.m. ET and will last 8 hours. All researchIT CT ProQuest databases will be unavailable during this time.

researchIT CT users: EBSCO will be performing scheduled maintenance on Thursday, December 27, 2018 from 7:00 AM until 9:00 AM EST. Customers may experience interruptions or slowness with Personal Folders, Single Sign On, or Personal User Accounts during this time.

New OneSearch search box trial. For an example, see: researchitct.org/classicscho…

OCLC has announced that planned maintenance will occur on Sunday, December 16, 2018 from 12:00 a.m. - 6:00 a.m. This means that Connecticut State Library digital collections in Ancestry.com may be unavailable at times during this maintenance period.

researchIT CT eAudiobooks & eBooks usage for October now available here: is.gd/FvCrmN

EBSCO has enabled Google sign in. Useful for users to create custom folders to hold search results. See is.gd/pNPGwr

Updated MARC records for researchIT CT RBDigital eAudiobooks & eBooks are here: is.gd/qQbDzU. The records are in 4 parts. There is a second set of 4 parts in RDA format on the same page.

updated MARC records for researchIT CT eAudiobooks and eBooks here: is.gd/qQbDzU

School media specialists and children's and YA librarians: I have placed an order with Recorded Books for all 2019 Nutmeg Award Nominee titles available, in eAudio and eBook format. It may take up to 24 hours for the titles to appear in iconnct.rbdigital.com/.

OCLC maintenance 10/21/18 midnight-6:00 a.m. may impact CT State Library Digital Collections in Ancestry.com.

Ancestry and Heritage Quest Online usage reporting has changed. See: is.gd/bR8xxl

Beginning on and after October 1, 2018, searching with diacritics will be enabled for all flagship products, including EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS), EDS API and EBSCOhost®.

researchIT CT eAudio & eBook usage for Sept.: eBooks = is.gd/dGIAzw (top left hand column); eAudios = is.gd/z85oIb (top right hand column)