Bodleian Offsite Storage Requests and Scan & Deliver Requests: Christmas Downtime Period

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Requests from Bodleian Offsite Storage

The last delivery for items requested from Bodleian Offsite Storage to the Social Science Library before our Christmas closure, will be the afternoon of Friday 20th December.

To ensure the items you require arrive in this delivery, requests should be placed before 10.30am on Friday 20th December.

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

Requests can still be requested on SOLO during the library 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 Scan & Deliver request form on SOLO will close at 5pm on Tuesday 17th December. Please ensure you place any requests required before the Christmas closure period by this deadline. The request form will reopen at 9am on Thursday 2nd December.

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We will be closed from Tuesday 24th December 2024 to Wednesday 1st January 2025 (dates inclusive).

Note that the library will close at 5pm on Monday 23rd December and re-open at 9am on Thursday 2nd January.