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  The David Wilson Library building will remain open but with restricted access and reduced opening times from Wednesday 6 January. The building will be open for individual silent study (drop-in and bookable) for students on exempted courses and with an essential requirement to access study space and print book stock, those students classed as vulnerable, and for essential PGR and research activities only. Group study rooms will not be available. When visiting the library you must: Bring your university ID card to gain access Unless exempt, where a face covering at all times when in the building Observe social distancing and only use designated study spaces The revised opening hours of the building will be: Monday – Friday: 10.00am – 4.00pm Saturday and Sunday: 12.00pm – 5.00pm There will be no staffed services but a reception service will be available during the above hours. Our enquiry service will continue to operate online during the following times: Monday – Friday: 9.00am – 5...

The library are pleased to announce that from Wednesday 29 July we will be providing a Click & Collect service to support essential University research for University Staff and Postgraduate Research students. Current University of Leicester staff and Postgraduate Research students can request items to be retrieved from the David Wilson Library’s lending collections (excluding Archives and Special Collections). Requests should be made through  Library Search . When your book is ready for collection an email will be sent to your University email address, you can then collect your book from the designated collection point in the David Wilson Library foyer.  You will need your University ID and to have downloaded the University Safe Zone app when coming onto the campus. You will be able to collect items Monday to Friday, between 11am and 3pm. Please note that there are no toilet facilities near the collection point, and parking spaces are limited. ...

The Library research services team and its services pivoted to an online/virtual only service delivery offering in March 2020 due to COVID-19 lockdown, and we have been connecting and meeting with our users and internal and external stakeholders this way since. We regularly update our blog post , which outlines the services and support we are providing for our PhD students and researchers during this period. Source: Image by  Abdessamad Jdaia  from  Pixabay We have had to adjust and in some ways reinvent and evolve some of our services to reflect the COVID-19 restrictions and we are also doing our annual planning as well as specific COVID-19 service and scenario planning. I attended (virtually of course) some of the excellent LIBER2020 conference sessions and workshop sessions last week, and I was particularly struck by something that Dr Bertil F. Dorch, Library Director and Associate Professor, University Southern Denmark, said in his presentation, along the lin...

Upcoming Training We're still offering training via webinars aimed at staff and PGRs. Here's the training sessions we have available for the rest of May and start of June: Search Strategies for Systematic Reviews in the Life Sciences Figshare for Research Data Sharing Choosing where to publish RefWorks Advanced EndNote (for those already using EndNote) EndNote (for those new to EndNote) Literature Search Refresher If there are training sessions you would like us to provide over the summer then let us know via librarians@le.ac.uk    Library Research Support Accessing Resources The David Wilson Library is still closed until further notice. Our e-resources continue as normal. For an overview of the online collections and resources we have, please see the  My Subject pages  and  Journals A to Z . For now, please continue to place document supply requests, book orders or digitisation requests. We will try to provide digital copies ...

The library research services team along with all our library colleagues are slowly adjusting to working remotely, during these unprecedented times. A significant amount of our activity and workload is around the open research agenda, and in particular open access (OA) to research publications and data. Photo by  Fusion Medical Animation  on  Unsplash We are aware that during the last few weeks there are many COVID-19 and Coronavirus research-related outputs being made freely available to access (not necessarily to text or data mine)  and our academic medical librarian Keith has made a very useful curated list of resources available here  and the University Library has a list of  publishers and content providers who have provided temporary free access to a wide range of their material in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. . A few resources and initiatives worth having a look at and searching (in addition to the key databases your normally use if ...