Wireless in Reading Rooms

Reading Rooms currently providing the Bodleian Libraries wireless service:

Radcliffe Camera, New Bodleian Library, Old Bodleian Library, Bodleian Law Library, English Faculty Library, Vere Harmsworth Library, Taylor Institute, Philosophy Library, Duke Humfrey's Library, Social Science Library, Sackler Library, Radcliffe Science Library, Chinese Studies Library, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House, Health Care Libraries (Cairns Library and Knowledge Centre), Music Faculty Library, Osney One Building, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, Oriental Institute Library, History Faculty Library, Department of Education Library, Department of Experimental Psychology Library, Department of Plant Sciences Library, Zoology Library, Clarendon Building, Department for Continuing Education Library, Sainsbury Library (Said Business School).

Advice for Readers

The wireless service covers the central seating areas of library reading rooms.

To use the service please connect your laptop or mobile device to Bodleian-Libraries. When you open a web browser you will be prompted for your Library Card/University Card barcode number and your password.  (For non-University members, these are the same credentials as used for the SOLO patron accounts whereas University members use Oxford SSO for their SOLO patron accounts). Once you have entered your details correctly you will be admitted to the network.

Library Cards and University Cards are issued with default passwords of the users' date of birth in the format DDMMMYYYY (e.g. 16OCT1988).  You should reset your password at the first opportunity, which you can do from here:

https://register.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Alternatively, you can ask a member of staff to help you.

The default password based on date of birth will expire 28 days after first issue.  An email reminder will be sent beforehand with instructions for resetting your password.

Please note that if you change your Library Card/University Card password, you will not be able to use your new password to login to the wireless network for about one minute.

Lastly, if you are accustomed to using the University's OWL or Eduroam service to connect to the wireless network in the Library you may continue to do so.

Advice for Staff 

There are several features to note.

  • The service provides users with Oxford University IP addresses, which means they can access the full range of our electronic resources in the same way as they can through wired connections to datapoints.
  • Nearly every reader in the Library is issued with a Library Card/University card so visitors can use wireless as well as University members.
  • If users switch off their laptops the service remembers they are logged on for an hour and they will not have to log back in within the hour even if they move to a different reading room.
  • Because the updates happen every half an hour a newly registered user with the Library may not be able to access Bodleian-Libraries for up to half an hour from being registered.
  • If users forget their passwords, they can reset them themselves or by asking library staff to do it - again the waiting time is about one minute.
  • Even though we do not monitor what people are doing on the network we can block them or their machines from the network if we have been asked to do so. If a user is blocked, you should phone IT Support (80020), who can then in turn tell you why it is blocked and what actions the user needs to take to get themselves unblocked. Also if you suspect readers of doing things they shouldn’t, you can request IT Support to block them.  You will need to provide the reader's name and barcode.

 

djp/3.5.2008, last rev.11.10.2011