Easter Opening Hours 2010 at Polhill Library

Saturday 27th March                       10am – 3.45pm

Sunday 28th March                         11am – 4.45pm

Mon 29th^th – Weds 31^st  March        8.30am – 5pm

CLOSED  Thursday 1^st – Tuesday 6^th April inclusive

Library re-opens on

Weds 7^th – Fri 9^th April                     8.30am – 5pm

Saturday 10^th April                           10am -  3.45pm

Sunday 11^th April                            11am – 4.45pm

Mon 12^th April – Fri 16^th April            8.30am – 6pm

Saturday 17^th April                           10am -  3.45pm

Sunday 18^th April                             11am – 4.45pm

Term time opening begins on Monday 19^th April

Recommend a resource

We now have a new service which allows staff and students to recommend resources that would be useful for the Library. We can't guarantee that all books will be purchased but each request will be considered. Just go to http://lrweb.beds.ac.uk/contact/recommend and complete the form.

New journals on library catalogue

The Acquisitions Department has added the new 1,200 full-text journals to the Library Catalogue. These journals have been bought as part of the new Education Research Complete journals bundle.

Polhill Learning Hub

From Monday 1st February, the Learning Hub will be open until midnight (Monday to Thursday). This is in response to student interest. The Learning Hub opens at 08.00 during the week. For more information, contact the Polhill Library enquiry desk (01234 793189).

New look to LRWeb

The LRweb home page has started 2010 with a fresh new look!

You can now search directly in the library catalogue box which is now both very orange and in a more prominent position above the 6 boxes. The 6 boxes have also had new graphics and a rearrangement of content to highlight our new services such as self service and the 'just a minute' videos. The Twitter feed has new styling and the footer info has been reordered with a more self explanatory display of the library email addresses for people to contact us with suggestions, problems or service queries. We have incorporated the new university website accessibility options so you can increase the size and colour of the text displayed as well as the background colour. There is also now a direct link for customer feedback at the top of the page which goes straight to the customer comments online form and blog.

Your comments and feedback on the new look and functionality are very welcome,

Electronic books are now working

The authentication problem which was affecting links to our (Dawsonera) electronic books and ZETOC has now been fixed.  

Shibboleth & ebooks

Unfortunately, the authentication system which lets you prove you are a UoB student and access the electronic books provided by Dawsonera is currently down.  The company that supplies the authentication system is trying to fix the problem.  

The electronic table of contents service, ZETOC, is also affected.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused and will let you know as soon as it is resolved.