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Do you Twitter?

Devereaux Library is tweeting @ http://twitter.com/SDSMT_Library Follow us for up to the minute updates, if you like, or just check in once in a while @ http://library.sdsmt.edu/whatsnew.htm We plan to post information about new resources, scheduled and unscheduled downtime, and much more.

A bit of information about Friday's system downtime.

From Warren Wilson at SDLN: To share more information. There were numerous problems last Friday. The first power related problem was with a substation that the University shares with part of the city. This problem was fixed relatively quickly. Then the crews started working on the substation that feeds the campus. All three breakers had blown and they had to get new breakers from Rapid City. As they narrowed the search down, it was a bad transformer to one of the building, actually the Young Center, the athletic building. They had to bypass that bad transformer. When power was restored to campus. The Library’s power did not come backup. The main switch/breaker for the building is bad and they had to force a connection to get power restored to the building. At some point, we will schedule another outage so that we can get that switch rebuilt. The SDLN UPS worked great. However, all of the network connectivity off campus lost power. So until power was reliably restored, the netwo