Inter-library Loans and Christmas Closure

If you are planning to use the inter-library loan service for your dissertation, you may want to consider how the Christmas Closure dates affect your study plans.  Due to the time it takes for us to request and receive books through inter-library loans, we will not be processing any other inter-library loan book requests after 13 DECEMBER.  This will hopefully allow students to collect any books they have requested before Christmas.  We want to avoid having books sat in the library over the holidays and ensure that students and staff have the most time possible with items borrowed from other libraries.

Any inter-library loan book requests received after the 13 December will be processed again starting on the 2 January.  Journal requests we will continue to process as normal.  Most journal articles we can receive as photocopies that do not need to be returned.  If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Inter-library loans team at interlibrary@yorksj.ac.uk.

Placing holds

If a book is on loan you can place a hold request for it. You will be notified when your held item is available to collect.  For more information have a look at: http://bit.ly/Wg4L3M or you can follow our tutorial at: http://library.yorksj.ac.uk/tutorials/useraccount/holds.swf

Maintenance will affect reading lists and some eJournals this weekend

OCLC have informed us that the will be carrying out maintenance on their systems this weekend. This will affect access to online reading lists and access to two electronic article databases (FirstSearch and ECO).

The maintenance is scheduled between 8am and 1pm (UK time) on Sunday 18th November. The services may be down for some or all of this time.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Full text access on ERIC

ERIC, a full text education database, is restricting access to some articles. For information and help with access to items affected please see: http://t.co/Z8vPMDKV. Remember, you can talk to your Academic Liaison Librarian for further advice.