The Library Service desk will be closed on Independence Day, Monday, July 4, 2022.
Eligible UMass Chan/UMMHC badge access only to enter the Library (24/7). At this time the Library is not open to members of the public.
You're invited to the launch of the UMass Chan R Café on Thursday, June 23 at 2pm on Zoom!
During these gatherings, there will be presentations on specific R libraries, tools, and concepts and time to work on your own projects and ask questions of the group. No prior experience with R required and all UMass Chan students, postdocs, faculty, and staff are welcome. To attend, please fill out this interest form.
There will be two outages this week affecting the Library:
The Library Service desk will be closed on Monday, June 20, 2022 in observance of Juneteenth.
Eligible UMass Chan/UMMHC badge access only to enter the Library (24/7). At this time the Library is not open to members of the public.
There will be a power loss due to required installation of permanent electrical feeds from the new electrical substations on June 8, 2022, beginning at 10:00 p.m. There will be a power outage at the start of the maintenance window as the Load Panels are powered with their new power source.
This work will impact the lighting in the following locations: Loading Dock, Clinical Parking Lot, Morgue Ramp, and the Library Parking lot at the Medical School.
The Library Service desk will be closed on Memorial Day, Monday, May 30, 2022.
Eligible UMass Chan/UMMHC badge access only to enter the Library (24/7). At this time the Library is not open to members of the public.
This weekend UMass Chan Information Technology will be conducting significant migrations and upgrades to the campus data core. The work is scheduled to begin Saturday, May 21 at 9 p.m. and is expected to last several hours.
During this time, a wide range of online platforms and services will be unavailable, including:
In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, the Library is exhibiting selections from its collection. The list of e-books and print books is available at https://libraryguides.umassmed.edu/book-displays/may-22-mham. Print books are on display throughout the first floor of the Library.
The IT department will be updating the Wi-Fi network in the Library tonight, May 3 for approximately 2 hours, beginning at 9:00 p.m., to resolve a connectivity issue for MacBook users.
Updates will be performed on one Wi-Fi device at a time. Users will lose connectivity when a device is being updated, which takes approximately 15 minutes per device.
The Lamar Soutter Library's new Artist-in-Residence Series exhibit, This Body of Work: Portraits from the Inside Out by Brett S. Poza, will be on display from May 3rd until the end of June. Of the collection, Brett says: