Christmas Opening Hours

With the end of term and Christmas holidays approaching some advance notice of changes to opening hours in the next few weeks:

For Monday 17th December to Friday 21st December, Vacation hours, opening hours: 09.00 - 18.00

CLOSED from 22nd December to 1st January, inclusive

From 2nd January - 5th January 2013, Vacation hours, opening hours: Wed to Fri: 09.00 - 18.00 Sat: 09.45 - 17.30

Normal term hours start on 7th January 2013

Reminder - SENATE HOUSE CLOSES AT 2.00 TODAY

Reminder- Senate House Foundation Day closure


Today, Wednesday 28th November, due to Foundation Day events, the Senate House building will close at 2.00pm.

This closure means that all the libraries (including Senate House Library and the IHR Library), all meeting rooms and cafes will close at 2.00
Library staff are also required to leave the building so wioll not be available for phone or email enquiries this afternoon.

Normal service resumes Thursday morning.

ADVANCE NOTICE - 28 November early closure

Senate House Foundation Day closure


ADVANCE NOTICE - Senate House Foundation Day closure

On Wednesday 28th November, due to Foundation Day events, the Senate House building will close at 2.00pm.
This includes all the libraries, all meeting rooms and cafes.

Access to Senate House Library

From today until Saturday (1-3 November, 2012, inclusive) access to the Institute of Commnwealth Studies Library and Senate House Library (SHL) will be via Stewart House only: there will be no access to the ground floor of Senate House while it is being used for filming. There may also be some disruption for a few days before and after these dates.


The Book Drop Box will also be in Stewart House from the morning of 1st to 5th November.

On the above dates, all readers must go to Stewart House, at the Russell Square entrance. The route to the lifts normally used to access SHL will be clearly signposted. There will not be any access to Senate House Library via the stairs.

All SHL readers should be able to access the library unimpeded. Anyone with disabilities may contact us before they visit, although it is not necessary to give us advance warning.

Scanning service goes live

All printer/photocopiers at the Senate House Library can now also be used to scan digital copies. This is a charged service (to cover the cost of providing machines, maintenance etc) at 6p per scan.

Users must enter an email address at the machine before you start scanning, and scans will be delivered to this address. The service does not allow scan to USB.

Scanning defaults to A3 and will scan everything on the copier glass at 200dpi and save as a Compact PDF
file. If you want to schange these options please refer to the guides at each machine.

Introducing ‘Everyware’

Introducing ‘Everyware’


Senate House Library’s computing facilities are moving to a mobile computing device service, increasing the number of computers available in the Library.

Readers will be able to borrow:

• iPads
• Apple MacBook Airs
• Apple MacBook Pros
• Windows laptops

A small number of the current desktop PCs will still be available for catalogue use and individual disability access.

The aim of our new service and enhanced wireless capacity is to allow more flexible computer usage throughout the Library via technologies that complement the very special atmosphere of our reading rooms.