What will it look like by autumn 2013?

Architect’s impression of refurbished 2nd Floor

The 2nd Floor will have 350 study spaces, each with a laptop plug point. The high-ceilinged area to the front of the building will provide a variety of collaborative study options including group study pods; diner-style seating; two-person and large table seating. Glass walls will divide off the book stock towards the back of the building with individual study seating for quiet study beside the windows. You’ll also benefit from brighter, eco-friendly lighting throughout.

We plan long study rooms, informal seating and more toilets on the 5th Floor

The 5th Floor will include two long, silent study rooms with laptop plug points at each desk; an open soft-seating area without power sockets for conventional reading; and more single-sex toilets, including those with disabled access. Further study places will overlook the 4th Floor central area through a glass screen, replaced as in the original build.

How will works affect me, summer 2013?

The Library will remain open, providing services to Library users around works. However, please note these changes:

• The 5th Floor Silent Study Floor will be closed to Library users for refurbishment from Saturday 8 June for the duration of the works.
• Access to 2nd Floor Sciences and Life Science material will be restricted, section by section, but we will operate a fetch and carry service where material is out-of-bounds.
• Science and Life Science Library staff will relocate to the 1st Floor Rooms 109, 110 and 111 where they will continue to help you.
• Please use alternative Group Study areas on the Ground Floor and other PCs whilst Rooms 111, 110 and 109 are closed to users.
• There may be some days when access to 1st Floor S@iL PCs will be restricted. You can also use PCs in other buildings. See IT Services webpage for availability.
• For a few weeks over the summer, access to the central 4th Floor area (beside catalogue PCs/4th Floor Reference/Information Desk) will be restricted whilst a glass wall is installed between it and the 5th Floor.
• Noise: Unfortunately, making such a fantastic ’omelette’ will require cracking eggs loudly. You will experience loud noise from 10 June for a few weeks whilst we demolish walls etc on the 5th Floor. We will also need to drill through floors and walls throughout the project, although we will try to restrict this to early mornings before 10:00.
• Alternative quiet space: Students and staff may always book rooms in other parts of the University for quiet study. At this time we envisage fewer rooms will already be engaged for teaching or exams. Contact rooms@reading.ac.uk or ring 0118 378 6506.
• Disabled parking bays behind the Library will be moved from near the Chaplaincy to near the Cedars Hotel entrance whilst the contractors’ compound is in place.

More information

Watch our Library homepage for updates on our University Library News blog or our Library Twitter account. Look out for an exhibition including the architect’s impressions on the Library’s Ground Floor soon.

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• clear cache and cookies from the web browser you are using 
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The trial can be accessed both on- and off-campus (via Athens) through the EBSCOhost databases page and runs until 9 June.

Your feedback is welcomed, so please tell us what you think about this resource by contacting Erika Delbecque, Liaison Librarian for Pharmacy.

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This is one of a series of tips helping you to save time and effort finding information.

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It will cover:

• the different types of maps available
• tips on searching for and locating printed maps
• sources for online maps including Digimap Historic

Book your place via the ‘Library course bookings’ link on the RISISweb portal.

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Here is just this month’s list of new reference works!

New printed reference works

Bergey’s manual of systematic bacteriology. Vol. 2, The Proteobacteria. Part C, The alpha-, beta-, delta-, and epsilon proteobacteria / Don J. Brenner, Noel R. Krieg, James T. Staley, editors ; George M. Garrity, editor-in-chief.
New York : Springer, 2005.
2ND FLOOR REFERENCE–579.3012-BER

BNF 65 : March 2013 – September 2013.
London : BMA : Royal Pharmaceutical Society, 2013.
2ND FLOOR REFERENCE–615.1-BNF

Building maintenance price book. 2012.
London : BCIS, 2012.
2ND FLOOR REFERENCE–692.5-BUI 

Spon’s Mechanical and electrical services price book. 2013 / edited by Davis Langdon, an AECOM company engineering services.
London : Spon Press, 2013.
2ND FLOOR REFERENCE–696.02942-SPO

Encyclopedia of the mind / editor-in-chief Harold Pashler.
Los Angeles, Calif. : SAGE, 2013
3RD FLOOR REFERENCE–150.3-ENC

A dictionary of linguistics and phonetics / David Crystal.
Oxford : Blackwell, 2008.
3RD FLOOR REFERENCE–403-CRY

Concise Oxford-Paravia Italian dictionary : English-Italian, Italian-English.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.
3RD FLOOR DICTIONARIES–453.2-CON  

The original British theatre directory [2012-13] / editor : Lauren  Payne.
London : Richmond House, 2012.
3RD FLOOR REFERENCE–792.0942-ORI

British & international music yearbook.
London : Rhinegold, 2013.
3RD FLOOR REFERENCE–780.58-BRI

The UK secondary + education directory 2013.
Redhill : Education Marketing Direct, 2013
4TH FLOOR REFERENCE–373.058-UK

Deutsches Wörterbuch / von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm.
Leipzig : Hirzel, 2012-
5TH FLOOR REFERENCE–433-GRI

Dictionary of medieval Latin from British sources.
Oxford : Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2013.
5TH FLOOR REFERENCE–479.3-DIC

For more reference works, look up individual titles on the Enterprise catalogue.

New online reference works

Encyclopedia of nursing research
Handbook of global environmental politics
A handbook of globalisation and environmental policy : national government interventions in a global arena
The international encyclopedia of depression
Modern American lives:  indiviuals and issues in American history since 1945
The Penn Center guide to bioethics

To find existing titles go to our Online dictionaries and encyclopedias page  or search the Enterprise catalogue.

Other new resources

Other new books and new e-books are listed on the Enterprise catalogue.

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