British Library Public Catalogue Outage

The British Library is suffering an outage, affecting all technology services including website, phone lines, and services on-site in London and Yorkshire.

This will include the Public Catalogue.

This issue is ongoing and the British Library has a blog that lists the latest information available, including resources that are available. A recent update has been released on the incident here:

Cyber incident update

Box of Broadcasts – scheduled maintenance – Wednesday 25 October 2023

A scheduled system maintenance period for the Box of Broadcasts (BoB) platform will begin Wednesday 25 October 2023 at 07:00. The provider advises that the service should be considered ‘at risk’ during this time.

Problems affecting access to online resources

THE LIBRARY IS currently experiencing authentication issues which is preventing access to multiple online resources, including books and journals in Library OneSearch, and resources listed in the Find Databases service.

Colleagues in Digital Technologies are urgently investigating.

Box of Broadcasts – scheduled maintenance – Thursday 12 October 2023

A scheduled system maintenance period for the Box of Broadcasts (BoB) platform will begin Thursday 12 October 2023 at 20:00. The provider advises that the service should be considered ‘at risk’ during this time.

New resource: Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle

THE LIBRARY HAS access to a brand new resource via Library OneSearch: The encyclopedia of the medieval chronicle.

This resource is described as:

bringing together the latest research in chronicle studies from a variety of disciplines and scholarly traditions. Chronicles are the history books written and read in educated circles throughout Europe and the Middle East in the Middle Ages. For the modern reader, they are important as sources for the history they tell, but equally they open windows on the preoccupations and self-perceptions of those who tell it.

Access is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus.