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Updated 1 April 2011

Libraries open and High Demand Collections

• The Education and Macmillan Brown Libraries will be open from 8am-8pm from Monday- Friday, 9am - 5pm on Saturday, and 10am - 5pm on Sunday .
• These libraries will provide high-demand hourly loans, holds, interloans and some other material from all libaries to support students resuming lectures as part of the UC Progressive Restart programme.
• The Education Library high demand collection is back in the Education Library. High demand collections from all other branches are available from the Macmillan Brown Library.
• Check the Education library and Macmillan Brown Library websites for further details.

Items on loan 

Items due after the 22nd of February were renewed to prevent fines:

• High Demand items (e.g. 3 hour and 3 day) were initially renewed to the 15th March. High demand collections are now available and items are circulating as usual.
• Interloans were initially renewed to the 15 March or later. Interloan services are now functioning as much as possible.
• All other items were renewed to 1 May.
• If you have High Demand, or recalled items out on loan, but are unable to retrieve them from damaged buildings etc, please contact us.
• Continue to monitor your Library account to see when items on loan are due.

Requests and recalls

• There is no retrieval service at the moment from the other libraries, but please request (in the usual manner via the Library catalogue) any items that you need as this information will be used to set priorities in the coming days.
• The Library will recall an item for you if it is out to another borrower.
• You will be emailed if an item on hold for you can be picked up at either the Macmillan Brown or Education Library

Interloans

Continue to make requests. Some requests are being processed where we are likely to get an electronic version. Interloans can be returned to the Macmillan Brown Library. The dropbox previously at NZi3 has been moved to Macmillan Brown Library from Wednesday 16 March.

Outstanding loans have been extended to 29 March, as Interloans staff apply for renewals from the supplying libraries. If the renewal is denied, Interloans staff will contact the appropriate borrowers. Once a renewal has been granted by the Supplying Library, the due date will be amended. Borrowers will be able to see this in "My Library Account".

Eresources

We are working with our vendors to extend access to eresources. See New Electronic Resources. We will also be reviewing all high-demand materials to see which of these are available digitally.   These are starting to come on stream now.  The best way to access these resources is through MultiSearch.
Datastream users can change settings to get access. Instructions are here.

Orders for the collection

Continue to make requests.  Send the details to acquisitions@libr.canterbury.ac.nz.  Some requests are being processed (e.g. where we will get an electronic version).  Check the new titles lists for recent acquisitions.

Contacting us

Please use email (helpdesk@libr.canterbury.ac.nz) or AskLIVE to contact us. There will be staff available to reply Monday to Friday, 8am - 5pm at NZi3, or answer the phone 03 364 2198.

Liaison Librarians can be contacted via email, AskLIVE or the Subject Guides. To find your subject specialist, click here.

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