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We are once again experiencing a power outage with an unknown cause. We're currently taking all possible measures to insure Aleph remains running for the longest time possible on our UPS. Once we know more information we'll let everyone know.

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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

Black Hills State (the home of the South Dakota Library Network) is having electrical problems. This may result in our loosing access the library catalog and the resources provided by SDLN. http://www.worldcat.org/ can be used as an alternative to the catalog. Please contact the library reference desk at 394-2419 or libref@sdsmt.edu for assistance in locating other replacement sources. Cindy Davies Devereaux Library, SDSMT From: Lucas Bialorucki [mailto:lbialorucki@sdln.net] Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 9:33 AM To: sdln-l Subject: Power Outage We are currently experiencing a campus wide power outage. SDLN is currently running on our UPS and that will keep our servers on for about an hour. However the campus internet connection will likely lose power shortly and all services will be off line until further notice. Sorry for any inconvenience if you have any questions feel free to contact us. Thank you Lucas

SDLN has advised us that the library database http://apollo.sdln.net has a problem which is expected to result in downtime this afternoon and evening. They hope to have everything back up by tomorrow sometime. In the meantime http://www.worldcat.org/ may serve as a partial substitute for the online catalog. The reference and journal databases at http://library.sdsmt.edu/atthelibrary.htm should continue to be available for on campus users. Databases that are normally available on and off campus http://library.sdsmt.edu/247.htm will be available on campus only. Please contact us for assistance: E-Mail library@sdsmt.edu Phone (605) 394-2419