Swipe Out

From Monday 5 September, you'll need to use your University card to enter and leave the Library at York.

At the beginning of this year, York switched the Library turnstiles to card access for all staff, students, and visitors. This has enabled them to collect helpful information about use of the Library, including details about which departments use the Library most, when the Library is busiest, and how many non-University visitors they see.

In order to make best use of this information, they now want to find out how long people are spending in the Library. To this end, the Library exit gates have been replaced with turnstiles, and from Monday 5 September you'll need to swipe your University card to leave the Library, as well as on arrival.

If you do forget your Library card, please go to the Reception, and staff will issue you with a temporary pass. 

Extra Study Space at University of York Library

We know that you need more spaces in the Library - so this Easter York are creating extra study spaces in the Burton Building, ready for the Summer term.

Your feedback matters to us - and one of the things that we're told most often is that you want more study spaces in the Library. Our survey results show us that both undergraduate and postgraduate students express a need for more silent study space, and we know how important this is, especially around exam time.

Closure of the Reading Room

The Burton Reading Room closed on Monday 14 March, and will remain closed throughout the Easter vacation while work is carried out. During the refurbishment, power points, including power points at some desks will be added.

The Silent Reading Room on the second floor of Burton will remain open throughout, and the Yorkshire Room, on the ground floor of Burton, will be available as a consultation space. If you need to access any items held in the Reading Room, just ask at the Library & IT Help Desk at York, and they'll arrange to fetch them for you.

Reopening of the Reading Room

The Reading Room will reopen at the start of the summer term, with 50 extra study spaces - this will give a total of 139 study spaces in that area - an increase of 56%. The opening hours are also being increased  for the Burton: from the summer term, the building (including the Microform Room on the first floor) will be open 24/7 all year round, in line with the other Library buildings. The Reading Room will remain a silent study zone.

The Brynmor Jones Library refurbishment: some nice facts

Hull Royal Infirmary Library - building works

Work is scheduled to take place between Tue 13th Jan and Fri 20th Feb 2015 at the Hull Royal Infirmary Library. Noise disruption is likely between 13^th and 16^th Jan but the Library should remain open throughout. This work is being undertaken as part of the drive to continually improve and update the environment of the library. If you have any concerns or queries please contact the local librarian Jacqui.Smales@hey.nhs.uk in the first instance or the HYMS Library Team at library@hyms.ac.uk.

What's in the redeveloped Brynmor Jones Library? Take a look!

 

Brynmor Jones Library Redevelopment update

·         The remainder of the ground floor, excluding the east entrance, gallery and exhibition space, is now open.  This includes Teaching Rooms 1 & 2, soft seating, quick print PCs and the remainder of the Welcome Desk turnstiles.  The Library and Learning Innovation Training Rooms are also situated in this area.  Contractors are currently commissioning the AV in the teaching and training rooms and they will be in use from Monday 17 November.

·         The gallery and exhibition space are due to be handed over week commencing 24 November.  It will then be possible to start moving the University Art Collection into the new gallery.

·         The redevelopment of the original east entrance is due to be completed in the course of December.

External works, excluding the area around the BAM compound and site offices, should be finished by the end of this month, at which point the fences will be removed.

Brynmor Jones Library, University of Hull, redevelopment update

·         The west (tower) end of the ground floor will open at 2.00pm today, Monday 29 September.  At the same time the 2^nd floor of the east building will also be re-openin.

·         The west end of the ground floor contains 30 PCs, informal seating and two centrally bookable teaching rooms, an information point, and printing and recycling facilities. It also contains the new book sorter.  This is where all books will be returned in future, and where they will be automatically sorted for distribution to the various locations around the Library.  Until the book sorter is fully tested and operational books will continue to be returned at the information point on the first floor of the tower.

·         The 2^nd floor of the east building contains three centrally bookable teaching rooms, 16 PCs, informal seating, group study rooms, an information point, and printing and recycling facilities.

·         External works are nearing completion and access to the new south entrance has been simplified and made more visible.  Brynmor Jones Library hopes to open the old main entrance and the rest of the ground floor, with the exception of the gallery and exhibition spaces, in the second half of this month. 

Brynmor Jones Library redevelopment at Hull: 3rd floor re-opened

The 3rd floor of the Brynmor Jones Library, which houses books on medicine, has now re-opened and is available to students again.

New look for the HYMS Library web pages

We've had the decorators in at the HYMS Library web pages. Everything's looking all shiny and new. We hope you like it.

 

All the previous content is still there and in the same places, but we're adding much more, including links to our skills tutorials on the new Skills Tutorials tab. We're currently in the process of refreshing these resources, so keep an eye out for future updates. 

 

If you're a new student (or even if you're an old one), the New Students tab has help and advice on getting the most out of the Library, including tips on eBook and eJournal searching and help on using your Reading Lists.

 

You can find our pages via the HYMS Library tab in Blackboard, or by going to: 

     http://libguides.hull.ac.uk/medicine

University of Hull, Brynmor Jones Library, redevelopment update

The brand new Library Café is now open. The Café is located on the ground floor of the Library to the left of the new south entrance. It provides seating for up to 80 people and offers an exciting new menu of sandwiches, cakes, hot snacks and Barista coffee. There will also be a new breakfast menu. The Library Café is open during the rest of the summer vacation from 08.30 to 16.30 Monday to Friday. Vending machines are available throughout the Library opening hours.