If you are a final year student, please note your library membership will expire on the official final day of your course. So before you finish please remember to:

• Return all your library books
• Pay off any outstanding fines or invoices

The university now has a site license for Adobe Creative Suite 6. This is now available for installation on our staff and student computers if they meet the minimum technical specification.

On Friday 28 June  2013, Information Services staff will be attending a one day training event. All  libraries, with the exception of the Health Sciences Library at Eastbourne DGH,  all media centres, and some open access computer rooms will be closed for the day.

The Service Desk will be open to receive enquiries. However, please note that there will be no technical staff available to respond to calls on that day.

Arrangements have been put in place to ensure that we can support any critical incidents.

Read on for details of which services will be closed and which will be open.

Exciting news about the Grand Parade Computer Suite

Over the winter vacation some major changes have been introduced to the Computer Suite in the main building and we are pleased to announce a complete update of the PCs and the Macs (which are now running Mountain Lion OSX).

Information Services have purchased within the last 6 months, e-book packages covering the following subject areas; Architecture, Environment, Geography, Media, Nursing. The inclusion of these 500 titles and growing e-book collection, will ensure that more key texts are accessible through the library catalogue .

Information Services are pleased to announce that the following Journals; Hospitality and Society, MIT Sloan Management Review and Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, are among 28 journals that have now become available online. These additions enhance an already considerable collection of online resources that are available through the online library 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

From January 16 2013, the university will be implementing a more secure password policy. The security improvements mean that you can now use permitted symbols and spaces and you will be able to use longer passwords.

These changes will not affect your existing passwords and you will not have to change your password until you wish to. However, when you do change your password you must choose one that  ...