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Welcome to the Library Service Eleni Borompoka, September 2021 QG GEN001 [ Library guide Welcome to the Library Service Eleni Borompoka, September 2021 QG GEN001 [www.abdn.ac.uk/library/documents/guides/qggen001.pdf] Contact details External members of the Library External members with borrowing rights should use [email protected] General enquiries their Library membership card to gain access to tel: +44 (0)1224 27-3330 services and facilities. (For information on external Library home page www.abdn.ac.uk/library/ memberships, see section: ‘Membership’ on page 4 of this guide.) Library contacts for http://bit.ly/AbdnLibraryContacts Visitors from other educational institutions, different services business users and the general public For access to The Sir Duncan Rice Library and Libraries and opening hours Taylor Library, a day Access Pass will be issued to There are three library buildings at the University of all bona fide applicants showing suitable proof of Aberdeen: identity. See our website for further details. You will be offered an extended Access Pass if you wish to The Sir Duncan Rice Library (TSDRL) – main site consult on a regular basis and you will be offered Bedford Road, Aberdeen (T: +44 (0)1224-273330) External Membership if you wish to borrow. Note: Medical Library please check our Covid updates page for the latest Foresterhill Campus (T: +44 (0)1224-437870) information on the service. Taylor Library Accessing other libraries (Law & European Documentation Centre) The University is a member of the SCONUL Dunbar Street, Aberdeen (T: +44(0)1224-272601) Access scheme which grants borrowing privileges to many types of library users working or studying Special Collections Centre at participating HE libraries in the United Kingdom In addition to these we have the Special Collections and Ireland. More information on our SCONUL Centre, located in The Sir Duncan Rice Library, webpages. Note: please check our Covid updates home to the University’s historic collections of page for the latest information on the service. books, manuscripts, archives and photographs. Lower Ground Floor of The Sir Duncan Rice Library Borrowing (T: +44(0)1224-272598) In The Sir Duncan Rice Library, use the Self-Service Opening hours over the academic year vary Kiosk located on the Ground Floor and Floors 1, 4 between libraries so, for the most up-to-date and 6. For site libraries, apart from the self-issue information, please refer to our Library Opening machine in the Heavy Demand section in Taylor Hours webpage. Library, take the items you wish to borrow to the Please note: The Medical Library is open term-time Issue Desk together with your ID Card (Library Card). hours all year round (with some variations around You will be unable to borrow without a valid card. Christmas and New Year). How many loans? Access Undergraduates + Taught Postgraduates 20 The Library welcomes not only members of the Research Postgraduates 30 University to our libraries, but also visitors from Staff 50 other educational institutions, businesses and the External Readers / NHS Grampian Staff 10 general public. SCONUL 5 Heavy Demand Collections 2 Members of the University Registered users must carry a valid University ID card to use as a form of identification, for borrowing materials, and for accessing services and facilities. Your ID card is not transferable. Security systems at The Sir Duncan Rice Library and Taylor Library require you to have a valid University ID card to gain entry. The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683 How long? Long Loan - Valid until the end of the Summer term, unless recalled. Your ID card 4-Week Loan – Valid for four weeks, items are renewable up to 9 times if not requested by another is also your reader. Identified by a white band on the spine. 6-Week Loan - Teaching Resource Collection borrowing card Kits - no recalls allowed for TRC kits. 3-Day Loan - Has a yellow band on the spine. Return within 3 days, including weekends. Items Please do not return Heavy Demand books from are automatically renewed up to 9 times unless other sites to TSDRL. requested by another reader. Requests for return of items on loan to you will be sent 24-Hour Restricted Loan - Return within 24 hours to your University e-mail address. If you have books from the time of issue, including weekends. out on loan remember to check your e-mail inbox at Heavy Demand - From Monday to Thursday the regular intervals for messages from the Library. loan period is 1 day; loans are due back by Please return items requested from you by the date 10:30am the next day. Books can be borrowed at given; someone else is waiting for them. All loans any time of the day provided that they are back by (with the exception of TRC kits) are subject to recall 10:3 the next morning. at any time, including vacations. For The Sir Duncan Rice Library, Medical and Fines are charged for late returns of all loans Taylor Libraries - Heavy Demand items borrowed on a Friday or over the weekend are due back by Finding what you want 10:30am on Monday. Please return HD items to the Primo site they were borrowed from. Primo is an online resource discovery tool that Requests searches across all our resources at once. You can find printed resources as well as e-journals and e- Log in and search Primo, then use the Request link books from our databases, museum objects, and on the Availability tab if you want to: material from our special collections and archives. • request material currently out on loan Primo is available to search from our Library home • ask for an item in a closed access store or at a page. library on a different UoA campus • book Heavy Demand material in advance Library regulations For standard loans, a message is sent to your The Library Regulations, displayed in all libraries, University e-mail address when the item is are designed to provide a pleasant and peaceful available. Please check your e-mail inbox regularly working environment for everyone. It is a condition for ‘collect’ messages and requests for return of of Library membership that you read and follow items you have out on loan. them. They can be found online. Returning loans Change of address/loss of card The Sir Duncan Rice Library: use the Returns Please notify the library at once if you change your facility located on the Ground Floor. address (home or term) or lose your ID card. Site libraries: During opening hours please return One library on three sites material to a member of staff at the Issue Desk. The Sir Duncan Rice Library Wait until each item is discharged. Items still issued and Special Collections Centre to your Library card remain your responsibility. Lower Ground Floor Heavy Demand material must be returned to the Special Collections Centre and Glucksman site where you borrowed it (other types of material Conservation Centre. North-east material, special can be returned to any University of Aberdeen printed books, manuscripts and archives. Library site). Secure boxes are placed outside the Ground Floor doors of Taylor and Medical Libraries for anyone Welcome Desk; Hardback Cafe; Gallery; Returns; wishing to return Heavy Demand loans before Events Area; Short-Stay PCs; Public Access PC; opening time. Self-service machine; Toilets. The Sir Duncan Rice Library Heavy Demand books can be placed in the external slot to the Returns facility. 2 Floor 1 The Library on the web Assistive Technology Booths; First Aid Room; Need help to find information for your assignment? Heavy Demand Collection; Information Centre; IT Then visit our Information Skills wiki at Service Desk; ILL Service; Maps; MFDs http://finditfastlibraryworkshops.pbworks.com. (photocopies, scans, prints); Music Room; Newspapers; PCs and Macs, 2 bookable rooms; Look out for QR codes – introduced into our bookable study pods, Self-service machine, Toilets. libraries for use with your smart phone or tablet. There’s a QR code on the front of this guide. Use a Floor 2 barcode reader on your phone to link to information All Print Journals; PC Classrooms; Seminar Room; online about library resources, services and Information Point; Microform Materials and information guides. Find out more in Library Guide Microfilm/fiche Reader; MFDs; Toilets. Library on your Smart Phone. Floor 3 900 - 999 Archaeology; History; Travel Geography; Workshops Co-Labs; MFD; Information Point; 2 Silent Study Rooms; Toilets. If you want to learn how to use our electronic databases, search Primo or use RefWorks why don’t Floor 4 you come along to one of our library skills 700 - 899 Literature; Classics; History of Art and workshops? Note: please check our Covid updates Architecture; Film; Theatre; Music books. Assistive page for the latest information on the service. Technology Booths; Co-Labs; MFD; Multimedia PC; Information Point; 2 Silent Study Rooms; Self- Research postgraduates: service machine; Toilets. Book free information skills workshops offered as Floor 5 part of the Researcher Development Programme 400-699 Language & Linguistics; Biological & via the Coursebooking web page. Physical Sciences; Maths; Engineering; Business. Undergraduates Co-Labs; MFD; Multimedia PCs; Information Point; and Taught Postgraduates: Silent Study Rooms; Toilets. Free workshops can be booked online via the Floor 6 Coursebooking web page. Our Find it Fast! 300 - 399 Education; Human Geography; Politics; workshops for UGs and PGTs last for 1 hour and are International Relations; Sociology; Economics; held mostly between 12 noon and 2pm at key times Teaching Resource Collection; MFD; Information throughout the academic year. They take place in Point; Co-Labs; 1 Silent Study Room; Self-service the PC classrooms on Floor 2 of The Sir Duncan machine; Toilets. Rice Library. Floor 7 Small group training: If you can organise a 000 - 299 Computing Science; Psychology; minimum of 6 students we will endeavour to run a Philosophy; Divinity and Religion.
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