The next courtesy notice reminders for staff & researchers who have borrowed long loan books from the Library are due to be sent out on Monday 6th February 2012 for all long loan items due for return on 10th February 2012. If you want to beat the rush, it is possible to renew your books now until 29th June 2012, either by logging on to the catalogue and renewing them online or by emailing the Customer Services Manager.
Please note, if you have already renewed your long loan items, you will need to bring them back to the Library, return them on the self service machines and reissue them to yourself as staff and researchers only have one unseen renewal online.
Please ensure that you check your account and renew/return any items to ensure you are not fined for late returns. If you have any queries about your account, please ensure you contact the Library so that we can resolve an issues before any fines are charged.
Matt Cunningham, Customer Services Manager
Loughborough University Library
Tel (01509) 222353
Email: M.S.Cunningham@lboro.ac.uk
See how easy it is to use our self service machines:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/library/services/selfServiceVideo.html
Category Archives: Borrowing
Library featured in WInter 2011 News at Lboro
Do you want to know what is the most expensive e-journal the Library has a subscription for? Or how many books the Library issued in 2009/10? If the answer is Yes to either of these then read the feature in the Winter 2011 issue of News at lboro .
The University’s staff magazine has run a two page feature (pages 12 – 13) highlighting the Library and its achievements.
The cover of this issue is provided by the images produced by the Library’s 2010/ 2011 Artist in Residence, Rebecca Hall.
Borrowing books & recalls over Christmas
The Christmas vacation is nearly on us. From Friday the 9th December you will be able to borrow One week and Long loan books until the start of the next term. They will be due back on:
- Wednesday 18th January (UG 1st and 2nd year)
- Friday 20th January (Finalist & taught PGs)
The last recall notices for books will also be on Friday 9th December, so you should continue to check your emails until then, to make sure you do not have to return the books you have out on loan before the end of term. Please note, if you collect a hold request that has another hold on it after yours, you will only be able to borrow it for a week, not till January.
Short loan books stay the same over the vacation period, with books borrowed on 22nd December due for return on 3rd January.
Why not renew your books now?
The next courtesy notice reminders for staff & researchers who have borrowed long loan books from the Library are due to be sent out on Monday 26th September 2011 for all long loan items due for return on 30th September 2011. If you want to beat the rush, it is possible to renew your books now until 10th February2012, either by logging on to the catalogue and renewing them online or by emailing the Customer Services Manager.
Please note, if you have already renewed your long loan items, you will need to bring them back to the Library, return them on the self service machines and reissue them to yourself as staff and researchers only have one unseen renewal online.
Please ensure that you check your account and renew/return any items to ensure you are not fined for late returns. If you have any queries about your account, please ensure you contact the Library so that we can resolve an issues before any fines are charged.
Matt Cunningham, Customer Services Manager
Loughborough University Library
Tel (01509) 222353
Email: M.S.Cunningham@lboro.ac.uk
See how easy it is to use our self service machines:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/library/services/selfServiceVideo.html
Finalist clearing
Calling all finalist students:
As you are nearing the completion of your course of study, I am writing to remind you that you should return all library material on loan to you and clear any outstanding fines, as soon as possible after your last examination. You should also present your student card to be cleared even if you have no material on loan.
The Library is required to notify departments of any students who have NOT returned books by the time their Board of Examiners meets.
You may check your borrower record on any self service terminal in the Library, but you must still present your card to be cancelled. Please do not leave it until the last minute in case there is any query. Please also ensure your department knows where to contact you if necessary.
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Extract from the General Regulations for the Degree of Bachelor:
“In order to qualify for the Degree of Bachelor a candidate must:-
2(v) have discharged all obligations to the University including the payment of fees and other charges and the return of all books and other material borrowed from the Library..”
If you have any queries about what is on your account, please contact the Customer Services Manager, Matt Cunningham, as soon as possible.
(01509) 222353
Why not renew your books now?
The next courtesy notice reminders for staff & researchers who have borrowed long loan books from the Library are due to be sent out on Monday 27th June 2011 for all long loan items due for return on 1st July 2011. If you want to beat the rush, it is possible to renew your books now until 30th September 2011, either by logging on to the catalogue and renewing them online or by emailing the Customer Services Manager.
Please note, if you have already renewed your long loan items, you will need to bring them back to the Library, return them on the self service machines and reissue them to yourself as staff and researchers only have one unseen renewal online.
Please ensure that you check your account and renew/return any items to ensure you are not fined for late returns. If you have any queries about your account, please ensure you contact the Library so that we can resolve an issues before any fines are charged.
Matt Cunningham, Customer Services Manager
Loughborough University Library
Tel (01509) 222353
Email: M.S.Cunningham@lboro.ac.uk
See how easy it is to use our self service machines:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/library/services/selfServiceVideo.html
Missing Books: A Paranormal Explanation?
They're here!
There’s nothing more frustrating for staff and students alike than finding that the book you’re looking for on the library shelves has gone missing. But is there a more unearthly explanation? The University’s Paranormal Studies Department thinks there is!
Flora Lopis, the Department’s newly appointed director, explains.
“Over the last year we’ve been receiving a lot more reports of sightings of strange phenomena and peculiar activities across all levels of the library. These reports seem to increase particularly during the 24-7 opening period, notably during the small hours after the Union bars close, for some reason.”
Flora’s team have recently set themselves up in the Library to try and record some of this activity, but have had little luck so far.
“First thing this Monday morning we had a report of a terrifying groaning, pasty-faced apparition that had manifested itself at the Enquiry Desk on Level 2, so we rushed over. But this turned out to be a member of Library Staff recovering from a weekend attack of spirits of an entirely liquid, rather than supernatural, nature. Serves him right, too.”
But Flora’s convinced there is evidence. Especially where missing books are concerned, and certain books in particular.
“Well, they seem particularly drawn to copies of David Jobber’s Principles & Practices of Marketing, 6th edition. Certainly I’ve never been able to get a copy, and this can only be because of the ghosts. Can’t it?”
Have you witnessed supernatural or paranormal activity in the Library? Has a book you’ve been looking for on the shelf suddenly and inexplicably vanished? Can you really stop a Vampire with Kung-Fu, like in Buffy The Vampire Slayer? If you can answer these questions, Flora and her team would like to hear from you. Why not visit their site and find out how to contact them.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
The Library will shut for the festive holidays on Thursday 23rd December 2010 and will re-open on Tuesday 4th January 2011.
And don’t forget, your books are due back on:
- Wednesday 19th January (UG 1st and 2nd year)
- Friday 21st January (Finalist & taught PGs)
We would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
National Non-Fiction Day
Today is National Non-Fiction Day.
National Non-Fiction Day is an annual celebration, initiated by the Federation of Children’s Book Groups in partnership with Scholastic Children’s Books. It aims to celebrate all that is brilliant about non fiction and show that it’s not just fiction that can be read and enjoyed for pleasure.
Naturally, we have a vast array of non-fiction material in our library, including material suitable for younger readers, and so too does your local public library. So why not help celebrate the day with a visit?
You can find more information about the day on the Federation’s website here.
New alumni membership
Vice-Chancellor, Shirley Pearce, was in attendance as the University officially launched its Alumni library card, at a presentation held in the Pilkington Library on Friday 29th October.
The card, which allows alumni to borrow up to eight long/week loans at a time, is free for the first five years, with a £10 annual charge thereafter.
Matt Cunningham, Customer Services Manager at the Library, is extremely happy with the success of the card: “Since it’s launch, we have doubled the number of alumni memberships we have provided. The Library is happy to support the aim of the University to play a central role in the personal and professional development of all our alumni”.
For more details of the new scheme, please visit the Library’s new alumni webpage.