Library & IT

Despite its modern foundation, St. Catherine’s College has an important Archive. The role of the College Archive is to preserve a record of the life of the College – both an institutional record, and a less formal picture of the life of the College community.

The Archive contains a small number of records related to the Delegacy and a larger number related to the foundation of the College, in addition to administrative records. The Archive primarily collects material relating to students, events in college, and commentary on the architecture.

The Archive is looked after by Barbara Costa, College Archivist, on two afternoons per week, currently Monday and Wednesday from 2.30-5.30pm.

For enquiries and appointments, contact: barbara.costa@stcatz.ox.ac.uk 01865 281588

IMPORTANT: currently, we are not  able to process new external donations. Sorry for the inconvenience that this may cause.

Please, reserve your printed books with the Click and Collect system on SOLO.

• Sign in on SOLO using your email credentials
• Look for your book
• Go in Find and Request and select St Catherine’s College Library
• Click in the Click and Collect button
• If the book has the status “Available”, you should receive an email the next morning between 8.30am and 10am (or following Monday if you placed the request Friday-Sunday) confirming that it is ready to collect.
• You have 24 hours to collect your book after receiving the notification email. Please do get in touch if you are unable to do so but would still like to borrow it.
• It will be already in your account at the time of the collection.
• If the book is not available because is on loan (the status on SOLO shows a due date), you can collect it within 7 days after receiving the notification email. The notification email will be triggered when the book is returned by the previous reader.
• It will be already in your account at the time of the collection.
• You can still borrow up to 12 books for 4 weeks or until the end of term (the last Friday of week 8^th), whichever comes first. You can borrow books for the vacation period.
• Overdue books incur fines of 10p per book per day. You will be sent reminders to renew your books just before they are due, and once they have become overdue. Please try to stay on top of these!

Please, return your books in the designated crates on the Library ground floor.

These will be quarantined for 72 hours (3 days) before being re-shelved by Library staff and becoming available again.

If you find charges in your account, please, email us and they will be waived promptly. Sorry if we miss this! Get in touch with us if this is the case.

You are not permitted to browse books in the Library

If you want to consult a confined/reference book, or you need an additional book that you have not reserved through the Click and Collect system, you cannot pick it up from the shelves. Please, email the Library at library@stcatz.ox.ac.uk (preferred) or make an enquiry at the enquiry desk.

library@stcatz.ox.ac.uk
01865 281582 (enquiry desk and office)
www.facebook.com/stcatzlibrary

Between the 14^th September and the 2^nd October:

Monday-Friday 10am-5pm

Saturday-Sunday closed

Between the 4^th October and the end of term: term- time opening hours

Monday-Friday 8am-midnight

Saturday-Sunday 9am-midnight

IMPORTANT: term time opening hours might be subject to review later in the term

Vacation

The library maintains term-time hours from 0th week in Michaelmas Term through 9th or 10th week in Trinity Term, with the exception of Christmas and Easter closure periods. Any changes to this will be posted on the library door, website, and social media pages.

Please, book your desk slot at https://mrbs.stcatz.ox.ac.uk, using your College username and password.

There are 56 numbered desks available: 16 on the ground floor; 20 in the Galleries, 10 in the seminar rooms, 10 in the computer room. All desks have lights and plugs for electronic devices, apart from the 10 desks in the seminar rooms where there are 4 plugs in each room. Five desks in the computer room have PCs.

You can book a maximum of four 1 hour slots per day up to one week in advance.

IMPORTANT: Please, delete your booking if you cannot use the desk, as it will become available for other students.

CODE OF CONDUCT

Help to keep the building clean and safe by:

• Washing your hands frequently using the washing facilities in the porch
• Sanitising your hands in the sanitising stations
• Wearing face coverings all the time
• Keeping a distance of two metres where possible
• Cleaning your desk before and after your slots, using the cleaning kits available in the Library
• Using the enquiry desk only for essential enquiries. Email the librarians for any other enquiry at library@stcatz.ox.ac.uk

support@stcatz.ox.ac.uk

Library Computer Room: 08:30 – 23:55 but must be booked via https://mrbs.stcatz.ox.ac.uk/mrbs/
Staircase 18 Computer Room Closed
JCR Email room: 08:00-24:00

The opening hours of the library and JCR, when different, supersede those given here.

There are three rooms in college equipped for computers for use by students:

• Library computer room; this contains 5 PCs, a colour laser printer.
• JCR computer room; located next to the JCR this facility is open to all college members and contains 5 PCs, and a photocopier / printer A4 and A3.

A small charge is levied for printing to cover the cost of consumables and is paid for in advance via the uPay system. Students will be advised of the current charging scheme on arrival. This is currently 4 pence per sheet of A4 black-and-white printing and 10 pence per sheet for colour printing, also A4.

Common software packages that are available to students include Microsoft and Corel Office suites for general word processing, spreadsheet, database and presentation preparation; eXceed for running X-windows, and SPSS for statistics. Each user is allocated 10GB of disk space on a central fileserver; this is quite generous and extensions will only rarely be considered and then only if sufficient resources are available. Files stored on local disks should not be considered secure nor safe from deletion.

All students are given a username and password for access to networked computers. Without the correct combination it is impossible to log on to any computer and use your home directory. Students wishing to make use of the College email facilities must first register individually for an email account with Oxford University Computing Services, email account details are generally provided on arrival for those starting a course at Catz. Once these details are obtained, a variety of email packages are available for use on personally owned computers; instructions for configuring popular email packages is provided by OUCS With regard to PCs found in computer rooms, email should only be used on the machines set aside for that purpose within the email room. Internet access is also available from machines within the student computer rooms.

All student rooms have data-points for connection to the Internet. These are standard RJ-45 sockets operating at either 100Mb/s or 1Gb/s. Students wishing to connect their machines to the data network must register their machines – this process can be conducted online via web-form and does not require a prior visit to the IT office.

Student views on matters of college computing are aired to the IT Committee by two representatives, one from the JCR and another from the MCR. Matters that require prompt resolution should be directed to the appropriate student representative, or, when necessary, the College IT Officer. General information regarding computing issues specific to the college network may be found on posters distributed in the student computing rooms. For additional IT information, please contact us. For news about changes in how IT is provided at St Catherine’s please follow our Catz IT twitterfeed.

Connecting To Networked Printers From Personal Computers and other Devices.

College members may print to networked printers via either document submission by e-mail or uploading to a web portal. Accepted formats include Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, PDF, JPG, GIF, PNG, TIF, and TXT . Users wishing to print other file formats should either convert the document to PDF format prior to submission, or print locally in one of the College’s computer rooms.

Printing documents submitted by e-mail

Send an e-mail with the documents attached that you would like to print, to printing@stcatz.ox.ac.uk , submitted jobs will then be queued until released. Please note that print jobs may only be submitted from your primary University account.

After submitting your print job visit here, login (using your College network credentials), select the ‘My Print Jobs’ tab where you will be able to select your desired destination printer and available (advanced) options such specifying pages, duplexing, or forced monochrome printing.

Printing documents via upload to a web portal

Using your preferred web browser visit here, login (using your College network credentials), and select the ‘Web Print’ tab.

Select whether you wish to print a particular web page (in which case enter the appropriate URL in the field provided), or a specific file. In the latter case ‘Browse’ for the desired file and once selected click on the ‘Next’ button after which you will be able to select your desired destination printer and available (advanced) options such specifying pages, duplexing, or forced monochrome printing.

In case of difficulties please contact the College’s I.T. staff.