As you may know, refurbishments to the EL building have been delayed and final hand-over is now expected to be the 22nd February. Our new mobile shelving is also delayed, and this will be installed end March/early April. These two delays have meant adjustments to what will be relocated and when.

We will keep all print journals (from EL and PSL) on Level 2 of PSL until the mobile shelving is ready. This means that all EL journals will be relocated to temporary stack in PSL next week (from the 16th February onwards).

PSL monographs, computers, the High Demand and Reference collections, along with relevant furniture and other equipment will be relocated during the week 22nd – 26th February. This is, of course, DURING the first week of term for Eng/Physical Science students and will be disruptive. However there is no alternative other than to have both libraries closed during the first week of term.

The new staffing structure for the EPS Library came into effect today and the new team is now delivering services from PSL, although some of us are still based in EL. We are starting to see how attractive our new spaces will be, but there still seems to be a frightening amount to be done in the next two weeks. We are hugely grateful for the hands-on help we have received from colleagues all around the Library during our many stock moves over the summer. At last count, we have carried out 22 individual stock moves mostly within EL, as we keep one step ahead of the builders, the carpet-layers, the painters, the welders and the electricians! We know that the merger has also resulted in a great deal of flow-on work for colleagues in other parts of the Library and we appreciate everybody’s ongoing support. We hope that, very soon, you will be able to visit and see the improvements for yourself.

Dawn