Wednesday, July 30, 2008

LIBRARY WEBSITE AND DATABASES MAY BE DOWN AT TIMES FROM JULY 31 TO AUGUST 4

Quick links for Library Research or to find your Blackboard Course

The Library has learned that the Chabot Las Positas Community College District is going through a current server emergency upgrade. This means that there will be times that servers will be down and you may not be able to access the College web site, the Library web site, and Chabot Library's subscription databases.

The server down times are currently slated for the following:

Thursday, July 31st after 3 p.m. to the rest of the day.

Friday, August 1st before 8 a.m. After 8 a.m. all servers should be running for the rest of the day.

Saturday, August 2nd after 11:30 p.m.

Sunday, August 3rd, ALL DAY. No access to the college web site, Library web pages, Class-Web, or databases.

Monday, August 4th, before 7 a.m.

Here is what the Library recommends you do, so you can find access to your Blackboard courses, and be able to search two of our databases (EBSCOhost and Proquest), or other options you can do for library research when the servers are down.

1. Bookmark the blog. You will get the latest information on this page, as well as key links.

2. The link to your Blackboard courses is: http://clpccd.blackboard.com/

3. For Library research purposes, you have access to one of the following:

a. The Library Catalog can be searched at: http://tinyurl.com/8mo5z

b. Proquest Diversity Databases: http://tinyurl.com/8mj36

c. EBSCOhost Databases: http://tinyurl.com/65ztma

The username and password for EBSCOhost is different. To get this information, Email the Library at: chabotref "at" clpccd.cc.ca.us

d. Find sources that have been selected for quality by searching Public WWW Sites Selected by Librarians at: http://tinyurl.com/yugjcn

e. With your Alameda County Library card, enter your library card number for a desired database at: http://tinyurl.com/6yk6h8

We apologize for this inconvenience.

The Chabot Library