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Saving records when writing a research essay

Published by Dipa Barua

Q: It would be very helpful if you could have more than one list of saved records. Working on two or more papers at the same time happens a lot and if you could have a separate list for each paper would be very handy.

A: When you Sign in to the Library Catalogue, you can create a list of Favourites (the pin icon) and use the "Add Labels" feature to organize your list of saved favourites.

Accessing articles for alumni

Published by Dipa Barua

Q: When I try to access articles from various databases such as JStor, I see this message: 

"Bad Request/Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand./Size of a request header field exceeds server limit."  

Does this mean that my access to some databases has been changed? (I am an alumna.)

A: I think there are two things happening:

Streaming videos through the library

Published by Dipa Barua

Q: Is there a way to connect to any streaming video services through the library? I can't seem to find any direct links; only title searches through the catalogue.

New Catalogue and Privacy

Published by Dipa Barua

Q. I like the new catalogue interface but I noticed it is hosted on server located outside of Canada. What personal information as defined in Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act is being stored, is there an option to opt out of the new catalogue and have users been properly informed that library services may not be fulfilled with Canadian servers?

Specifically when I try to see what I have checked out, it takes me too sfu-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com which has an IP in Illinois, USA. Is my record being stored there?