Borrowing and viewing material

Bulmershe Library Team say goodbye before disbanding

Bulmershe Library is dead! Long live ‘Bulmershe Collections’ at the University Library at Whiteknights (until we integrate them with other stock there). Long may Library services for all schools and departments continue from this single, central Library site.

Bulmershe Library staff said goodbye to their last customer on Friday 29 July 2011. This completes the University’s 2006 plan as academic activity ceases at Bulmershe Court campus. Film, Theatre & Television has already moved to Whiteknights. Health and Social Care has now closed. The Institute of Education will soon move to London Road campus.

Bulmershe Collections at Whiteknights

Bulmershe Collections have moved to Whiteknights. You will find most items on open shelves in separate sections towards the front of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Floors. Others you can request from closed Store or Stack areas through the Unicorn catalogue.

Bulmershe Court Book Drop

You may still return University Library loans on the Bulmershe Court campus via the Book Drop in the wall of the inner courtyard near Reception. We will continue to operate this service whilst the Institute of Education remains here.

Library staff  help

Subject liaison staff  for IoE and FTT continue to serve their departments from Whiteknights. Other staff move to other library jobs or retire. Thanks for telling us you appreciated our support over the years. Some of us will see you soon. We commend you to our Whiteknights colleagues!

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First Off-site Store retrieval service user, Dr Tony Corley received a book token from Nick Hollis, Circulation Services Manager

To mark the opening of a new Library retrieval service, we presented a prize to the first person collecting material held in our new Off-site Store. Dr Tony Corley was surprised and delighted to receive a small book token as well when he came to read the journals he had requested online.

Over the summer we will transfer further lesser-used and research-level journals and books to the Store. This will help release more space at Main Library Whiteknights to accommodate material Bulmershe Collection material, when Bulmershe Library closes this July.

Requesting ’Off-site Store’ material

You’ ll recognise Store items on the Unicorn catalogue by the location ‘Off-site Store – available on request’. To use them, just click on the ‘Request item from Off-site Store’ link on the left-hand side of the screen. Items will be made available for you to collect from the Main Library Ground Floor service desks. (For operational and safety reasons, it will not be possible for users to browse the collections held in the Store.)

During this summer’s move we won’t be able to guarantee a delivery time, but we will contact you as soon as items are available. So during this period, we recommend you order items as soon as possible.  

After stock moves are complete, we will collect Store items twice a week, on Mondays and Thursdays.  Items will be ready for you at Main Library on these days after 15:00 and remain there for up to seven days for you to consult or borrow.

The Store within our Collections Project

Moving lesser-used and research material to Store is an integral part of our five year Collections Project to re-profile Library collections to better meet users’ needs and improve study space. 

We will also be rearranging Main Library collections this summer, so it will be ‘all change by autumn’. For day-to-day news of moves, see the Library’s University Library news blog (also on the Library website) or follow the Library on Twitter.

More on the Off-site Store retrieval service

For further information on the new Off-site Store service, please contact your Liaison Librarian or Nick Hollis, Circulation Services Manager.

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