08:45-19:00 Monday 27 May — just like a normal weekday.
May openingWe’ll be open till 19:00 on weekdays in May. Thanks to Laurence for keeping an eye on the library during those evenings. We hope you find them useful!
And, so you can tell us what you find useful, our reader survey is still live.
And a reminder that we’ve got more desk space in the McBurney Room now: see plan and picture.
Lunch closuresOn Mon 29 April and Mon 6 May, the Haddon will have to close for lunch, 13:00-14:00.
Sorry if this is inconvenient. Contact Aidan if you need a particular workaround.
New desk space in the McBurneyWe have added some desk space in the McBurney Room! Thanks Marcus, Tom, François. And we hope to add power there before long.
Exam Term 2013Term-time means opening hours like this:
Monday to Thursday 08:45–17:15 (08:45-19:00 in May)
Friday 09:15-17:15 (09:15-19:00 in May)
Saturday 09:00-13:00, 14:00-17:00
End-of-term proceduresRenewals
Most open-shelf loans are now renewable until 26 April. Try it and see.
If renewal doesn’t work, perhaps the loan’s had its maximum number of renewals already, or perhaps it’s overdue, or perhaps your borrower category is one that doesn’t do renewals. Let us know and we’ll see what we can do about it.
Recalls
If you need to recall a book, tell us and we’ll contact the borrower.
Mond visitsThe Mond building, on the New Museums Site, is where a lot of our journals are now stored. If the online catalogue tells you that a Haddon journal is in “MOND Bay –” that means the journal is over there, and locked away.
We fetch things from the Mond every day at 10:00 and 15:00. Ask at the issue desk.
If you need more than we can bring over in one go — say you want to browse the whole run of a journal — we can take you over there, and take you to where the journal is. We’re doing this on Friday mornings, 10:00-13:00, and we’d like you to book in advance, please!
Reader survey now liveClick on http://svy.mk/Xa9GTy and tell us what you think of the Haddon Library.
Too busy now? The survey will be up until at least the end of April, and we’ll remind you of it from time to time.
And look at what we’ve done with some of the things you’ve told us over the past year!
End of termVacation borrowing will start on Monday 11 March. Anything you borrow, starting from that date and for most of the vacation, will have a return date of Friday 26 April.
And, in a change to our end-of-term routine, we won’t now ask you to return all of your Haddon loans before we let you borrow for the vacation. The books you’ll have borrowed before Mon 11 March will be due for return on or before Friday 15 March. Once vacation borrowing begins, at the start of that week, you will be able to renew them, in most cases, for the vacation.
And what if you want a book for the vacation and someone else has it out? You can recall it; online up to Sunday 10 March, or by asking us of the Haddon team once vacation borrowing starts. Note that you can’t expect the book to reappear quite so quickly once we get into the vacation.
Another change to our end-of-term routine, in case you didn’t spot it before Christmas, is this. We’ve dropped the practice of levying a £10 additional surcharge from borrowers whose books miss the end-of-term deadline.
But that’s not to say that we won’t ever use it again — for instance, to make sure books are back at the end of the academic year. And surcharges still owing, from the days when we asked for them, will stay owing till they’re paid. Please.
Lent Term 2013Term-time means opening hours like this:
Monday to Thursday 08:45–17:15
Friday 09:15-17:15
Saturday 09:00-13:00, 14:00-17:00
