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Stack Request and Scan and Deliver services: Downtime over Christmas Vacation

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Stack Requests

The last stack request delivery to the Social Science Library before our Christmas closure will be the afternoon of Thursday 21st December.

To ensure your stack requests arrive in this delivery, requests should be placed before 9.30am on Thursday 21st December.

Deliveries will recommence in the new year when we re-open (from Tuesday 2nd January).

Stack requests can still be requested on SOLO during the closure period, they just won’t be fetched and processed until we are open again in the New Year.

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Scan & Deliver

Scan & Deliver is a free electronic document delivery service which enables you to obtain scans of book chapters or journal articles via email from the Bodleian Libraries’ print collections.

Please note that the service will close for the Christmas vacation on Monday 18th December at 5pm and will re-open at 9am on Tuesday 2nd January.

Temporary changes to Library Services: 16 – 23 August

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16 – 23 August, all libraries at the University of Oxford, including the Bodleian Libraries, are switching to a new library management system.

Some of our usual services will be unavailable or impacted for a short while.

  • Access to online resources will be unaffected
  • You can still borrow and return books

24 August the new system goes live. All services resume.

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Scan & Deliver

Scan & Deliver will be unavailable 16 – 23 August.

Requests can be placed until 15 August. The service will resume on 24 August.

Self-Issue Machines

Self-Issue machines will not operate 16 – 23 August.

Please take any books you wish to borrow to a staff member at our Issue Desk.

Inter-Library Loans

Inter-Library Loans will be unavailable during the 16 – 23 August.

Requests can be placed until 15 August. The service will resume on 24 August.

Stack Requests

Stack requests can be placed in SOLO until 15 August.

Email book.fetch@bodleian.ox.ac.uk for the temporary staff-mediated stack request service. This operates 16-23 August with deliveries to Bodleian Old Library and Weston Library only.

Availability of Books on SOLO

SOLO remains online, but loans information will be frozen:

Books borrowed between 16 – 23 August will still appear as “Available” on SOLO.

Contact us to confirm availability of an item on the SSL shelves. Contact reader.services@bodleian.ox.ac.uk for items in the closed stack.

Changes to My SOLO

My SOLO will be unavailable from 16 – 23 August.

My SOLO Saved Favourites and searches will not be moved to the new system.

Saved Favourites and searches in My SOLO will not be moved to the new system.

Consult the instructions available on the SOLO Subject & Research Guide to learn how to export your Favourites (which you can do up until the 16 August).

SOLO Loan History

Your Loan History on SOLO will not be moved to the new system.

If you wish to retain it take a copy before 16 August.

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If you have any questions, please do get in touch.

Email us at ssl@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Telephone us: 01865 271093

Downtime for Closed Stack Requests: 8th and 9th December

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An essential system upgrade will be taking place on the 8th and 9th December, resulting in no deliveries from the Closed Stack during this period.

The last delivery of material will arrive in the afternoon of Wednesday 7th December. The deadline for placing requests for this delivery on SOLO is 10am on Wednesday 7th December.

Deliveries will then recommence on Monday 12th December.

Stack requests can still be requested on SOLO during the downtime, there will just be a delay in them being processed and delivered.

We thank you for your patience whilst this vital work takes place.

 

Dates for the last Stack Request delivery before our Christmas closure period

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The last stack request delivery to the SSL before our Christmas closure period (Tues 24 December to Wed 1 January) (dates inclusive)) will be on the morning of Mon 23 December. Readers who wish to receive items in this last delivery must place their order on SOLO no later than 7.30pm on Fri 20 December.

Items ordered over the library closure period will be delivered on the morning of Thursday 2 January or shortly afterwards.

 

 

Book Storage Facility closed on Friday 13th December

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The Book Storage Facility will be closed on Friday 13th December. This means that there will be no deliveries of stack requests from them to libraries that day. If you wish to order a book to read at the SSL tomorrow or Saturday, please request it by 10.30am this morning (Thursday 12th December).

Normal service will resume on Monday 16th December, so any book ordered after 10.30am today should hopefully arrive on Monday or shortly afterwards. You will receive an email when your stack request arrives.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Dates for the last stack request delivery before our Christmas closure period

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The last stack request delivery to the SSL before our Christmas closure period (Sat 22nd Dec to Tues 1st Jan) (dates inclusive)) will be on the morning of Friday 21st December. Readers who wish to receive items in this last delivery must place their order on SOLO no later than 7.30pm on Thursday 20th December.

Items ordered over the library closure period will be delivered on the morning of Wednesday 2nd January or shortly afterwards.

Please note that there will also be no deliveries taking place on Thursday 20th December, as the library will be closed between 9am – 3pm due to essential electrical maintenance work.

 

 

 

 

No Stack Request deliveries until Mon 5th March due to adverse weather conditions

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Due to the adverse weather conditions, there will be no further deliveries of items requested from the Closed Stacks until Monday morning (5th March). This is due to unsafe travel conditions between Oxford and Swindon (where the Book Storage Facility is located)

Readers can expect their requested closed stack material to begin arriving with us from Monday onwards.

Once the requested item arrives at the SSL, you will receive an automatic email to let you know. Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any further queries.

We are very sorry for any inconvenience this delay may cause.

 

Last SSL Stack Request delivery before the Christmas Vacation

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The last stack request delivery to the SSL before our Christmas closure period (Sat 23rd Dec to Mon 1st Jan) (dates inclusive)) will be on the morning of Thursday 21st December. Readers who wish to receive items in that last delivery must place their order on SOLO no later than 7.20pm on Wednesday 20th December.

The first delivery of the New Year will take place on the morning we re-open, Tuesday 2nd January. 

Items ordered over the library closure period will be delivered on Tuesday 2nd January or shortly afterwards.

 

 

Last Stack Request delivery before the Christmas Vacation

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The last stack request delivery before our Christmas closure period (Sat 24th Dec to Mon 2nd Jan) (dates inclusive)) will be on the afternoon of Thursday 22nd December.

The first delivery of the New Year will take place on the morning we re-open – Tuesday 3rd January. 

Items ordered over the library closure period will be delivered on Tuesday 3rd January or shortly afterwards.

New Service: Closed Stack Request Email Renewal Reminders

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On the 1st August the Bodleian Libraries introduced a policy of sending courtesy emails to alert readers that stack requests they placed via SOLO are about to lapse and be returned to the closed stacks. The aim is to avoid situations where material is returned to the stacks whilst still in use. We hope you will find this new service useful.

As this has now been introduced we at the SSL will no longer personally be emailing readers who have items that have lapsed to see if we should renew them for them.

This new service will run on a trial basis and be reviewed at the end of the forthcoming academic year.

Details of how to renew your stack requests can be found here