Thursday, May 15, 2014

New Library Website and Links

We're moving! UI&U Library is moving to a new website http://library.myunion.edu. We're very excited to make the move over to the WordPress platform while continuing to provide you with access to all the library resources you need. Hopefully, you won't notice much "construction dust", but there are two matters that will affect a lot of UI&U Library users.

1) Bookmark our new page: http://library.myunion.edu. If you've saved any bookmarks to Help Center or Services and Policy pages, either for yourself or in your courses, update those bookmarks too. All links to the library website pages now start with http://library.myunion.edu/.

2) Update any links to e-books or articles that require your UI&U login for access. As part of this process, we've updated our proxy address which means all the links that start with http://myunion.edu/library-login.aspx?url= have now changed. If you have these links, use this prefix instead:  http://proxy.myunion.edu/login?url=

Faculty members: If you use library links in your course, you need to take action to fix those links. We've updated our syllabus links page to help you create new links to your course materials. We're also partnering with CTL so you can contact both the library and CTL for help.

Students: Update any bookmarks you have to the library. If you use a citation manager, it has saved any permanent links with the old prefix. Also if you run into any problems accessing your course materials, you can contact the library for help. Very soon any link that looks like this will not work:






If you find a dead link, you can still get to the resource if you replace the prefix so the link looks like this:




We know all this change may be a little disconcerting and requires some work to adapt, but these updates will give us a more stable platform to continue to provide you with access to all our quality library resources.

If you have any questions, please contact us at library@myunion.edu, 800-871-8165 x8747 or Ask a Librarian.

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