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Training: 10-12 June 2008

ecls/ / Training & Events

Places are now available for all 3 days of the following free Digimap training course, open to staff members in UK higher and further education institutions.

Venue: University of Sussex, Brighton
Date: 10-12 June 2008 (Tuesday-Thursday)

Even if you have attended a previous Digimap course, you may wish to attend again since the courses are updated each academic year.

Full details of the training course are available from the Events and Training section of our website. You can also book a place via the online registration form, linked from the event page.

All EDINA training courses are FREE OF CHARGE. Regretfully, however, we will charge £25.00 for each day of unnotified absence from a course. This is due to the increasing number of no-shows at courses. Lunch will be provided for all full-day attendees and light refreshments will be available throughout the day.

Training courses are a great opportunity to learn more about Digimap Collections, and how to make best use of them at your institution. You can attend as many days of the Digimap course as you wish. We would be grateful if you would pass this invitation along to colleagues who may also be interested in this training.

Even if your institution does not subscribe to any Digimap Collection, please come along and see what the services offer. If you have any questions about Digimap training in general, or this course in particular, please do not hesitate to contact us on 0131 650 3302 or by email on edina@ed.ac.uk

Service Maintenance – 13 May 2008

ecls/ / Service Availability

All Digimap services and facilities will be unavailable between 0900 hours and 1730 hours on Tuesday 13 May. The machine on which Digimap runs requires some maintenance work which cannot be done “out of hours” or within the duration of a normal “at risk” period. This is why we have scheduled a full day for the work to be done. Unfortunately, it is not possible to run the service while the work is being carried out.

This period of service maintenance has been advertised on the Digimap login page since Friday 11 April 2008. All Digimap site representatives will be notified by email.

Welcome!

ecls/ / Digimap News

Following numerous discussions with members of the Digimap user community, we have decided to try a more up-to-date means of distributing information. We have started a blog!

The objective of this blog is to provide regular updates to Digimap users, relating to forthcoming service changes, service downtimes, changes to available data, frequently asked questions on how to do things and what’s available. We also hope to bring you news of various events which might be of interest to Digimap users, and will also post here calls for assistance or feedback.

You can subscribe to the RSS feed for this blog, so that each new post is piped directly to you. You can do this by clicking on the “Atom” link at the bottom of this post and following the instructions. Alternatively, you can click on the Subscribe to RSS feed link on the right hand side of this page. Don’t worry, this will not be the only place the information posted here is available. We will continue to post messages on the Digimap website (http://edina.ac.uk/digimap) and will continue to send email relating to important matters. We hope that this blog will be an easier way for some people to pick up information, rather than it being a replacement means of publishing information.