On Saturday 22nd January Information Services and Estates and Campus Services will be making modifications to the power supply to the Server Room in Pathfoot Building which contains roughly one third of the University’s centrally provided IT services. The purpose of the modifications is to reduce the likelihood of unplanned downtime if power equipment in […]
Month: January 2011
Microsoft document formats
From 5pm Thursday 13th January Information Services will no longer enforce the Microsoft Office 97-2003 document formats as the default. It is not necessary to continue to retain the old document format for compatibility as staff and student have access to Office 2007 as a minimum. This will mean that the default formats for the […]
Information Centre (IT enquiries) closed for meeting, Fri 14th January
The Information Centre on Stirling campus (IT enquiries) will be closed for an Information Services staff meeting, Friday 14th January 10.30-11.30.  The Lending desk at the Information Centre will remain open for basic library borrowing enquiries.  Messages can be left on our main IT line (x7250) or alternatively email us on infocentre@stir.ac.uk  […]
Library weekend opening – winter vacation
During the winter vacation commencing Saturday 8th January, the Stirling campus Library will be open from 10am – 5pm on Saturdays and Sundays, for study and all self-service transactions.   In previous years, the Library was only open from 9am – 12.30pm on Saturdays, so we hope the new extended hours will be welcomed […]
Library Stock Moves
Happy New Year!  During January, in preparation for Spring Semester 2011, we are planning on moving all Library stock in the Stirling campus library. This is in order to move the stock that has been temporarily held in the interim area into the main Library and to finish off as much weeding as possible. […]
IT Service failures over the holiday period
A power outage at 7pm on Tuesday 28th December affected several IT services including WebCT, student email, and some web-based applications. By midday on the 29th the majority of the server hardware that these services, including WebCT, run on had been brought back into service. However, it became apparent on the evening of the 31st […]