Website Maintenance To Affect Arlington Heights Library Services This Week

Press release from the Arlington Heights Memorial Library:

On the morning of Wednesday, March 31, the library’s website will undergo maintenance and a system upgrade. This scheduled maintenance typically takes between 4-6 hours, but it is possible it may take longer. During this time some online resources and library services, such as placing new holds and renewals or using a self-checkout station in the library, will be unavailable. Staff will able to continue to check out new items for customers at the Circulation Desk and drive-up window during this downtime. Please call at 847-392-0100 or chat the library at ahml.info if you need specific account information.

We apologize in advance for any inconvenience. Here is more on what to expect:

• Self-check stations will not be available. In-person checkout service at the drive-up window and Circulation Desk will be available.
• Overdue notices, due date reminders and holds ready notifications will not be sent while the maintenance is in process.
• Current checkouts or holds will be unavailable to view on the website.
• Unable to place new holds or renewals.
• Users will be able to search the catalog on the website with semi-up-to-date availability (as of the time when the maintenance started).
• Remote access to a majority of our databases and online learning resources will not be available, along with access to cloudLibrary, hoopla, Kanopy, Libby Magazines and Flipster. In-library access to databases will still be available.
• The following resources will be accessible via remote access during the transition:
  • Arlington Heights History
  • Black Freedom Struggle in the United States
  • BrainPOP ELL
  • Consumer's Checkbook
  • Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
  • DigitalLearn.org
  • Driving-Tests.org
  • FamilySearch
  • GCFLearnFree.org
  • Google Scholar
  • Green File
  • Illinois Career Information System
  • Illinois Legal Aid
  • PressReader
  • PubMed (in the description for Medline)
  • MedlinePlus
  • Occupational Outlook Handbook
  • RBdigital streaming media (AcornTV, Great Courses, IndieFlix)
  • Sanborn Maps (Library of Congress)
  • StoryCove
  • Treehouse: Online Training
  • Tumble Book Library
  • TumbleMath
  • U.S. National Archives
  • WorldCat Discovery

This press release was produced by the Arlington Heights Memorial Library. The views expressed here are the author’s own.