Service Alerts and News

NC LIVE Website and Proxies Downtime- Friday, July 22, 7:30-8:00am

On Friday, July 22nd from 7:30am-8:00am, MCNC will perform OS updates on NC LIVE's servers. This may result in downtime of 30 minutes for the NC LIVE website and NC LIVE proxies. This includes libraries using NC LIVE Hosted Proxy, barcode pattern matching and NC LIVE password. 
We will send out an email when the updates are complete.

Questions? Contact the help [at] nclive.org (NC LIVE Help Desk)

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*New* NC LIVE User-Friendly Resource URLs

NC LIVE resource URLs have switched to a new format. These new resource URLs have a user-friendly format which we hope will be easier for users to remember, and libraries to promote and share. We encourage libraries to swap their old NC LIVE URLs to this new format. However, the old resource URLs will continue to work. As part of this process, the NC LIVE splash page has been updated with a new design and new language as well.  Here's an example of the old link vs. the new link: 

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NC LIVE not showing up on hoopla sign-up

Update 7/14/2022:

This issue has been fixed. NC LIVE is once again showing up as an option on the hoopla "Find Your Library" page. 

NC LIVE is not showing up as an option on the hoopla "Find Your Library" page, when users sign-up for an account. 

hoopla is aware of this issue and working on a fix. We will update you when we have more information. 

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Hoopla Consortia Migration- July 11, 2022

On Monday, July 11, 2022, hoopla will be launching their consortial program. This program will make it possible for libraries’ local hoopla content to integrate with NC LIVE’s hoopla content in the same account. Library users will no longer need two separate hoopla accounts. They will be able to see both NC LIVE hoopla content and their library’s hoopla content in the same account. 

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