City libraries are now in the summer mode 🌞
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ALT Northampton Square's bandstand and greenery on a sunny day
Do you need help understanding Open Access and what this means for your research at City? Check out our dedicated Library Guides: libguides.city.ac.uk/openacc…
ALT Screenshot of the Open Access Library Guides homepage.
📢👷In the coming weeks, summer works on Level 5 of Northampton Square Library may cause some noise and disturbance. Please use Level 6 or visit Law Library for silent study spaces. Apologies for the inconvenience.
It's almost the #weekend! 🌞
If you're looking for something to read, have a look at our special #PrideMonth month collection of e-books and audiobooks 📕📗📘
Find it on Libby app, or read/listen to on the OverDrive website: city.overdrive.com/collectio…
ALT A screenshot of William S. Burroughs's Queer (audiobook lasting 5 hours) and Tembe Denton-Hurst's Homebodies (audiobook lasting 10 hours)
❗If you haven’t registered to vote by midnight on Tuesday 18 June, you will not be able to vote in the general election on 4 July❗ You have 5 days left🗳️ Register to vote: gov.uk/register-to-vote
City students can enjoy everything The New York Times offers, for free. Start exploring News, Games, Cooking, Wirecutter and The Athletic today by activating your access: blogs.city.ac.uk/library/the…
ALT An illustration of five smartphones, the middle, largest one displaying the text "The New York Times", the others - Games, Cooking, The Athletic, Wirecutter.
Are you getting ready for the long weekend? ✨
If you need to #TakeABreak from studies, have a look at Kanopy, where there are quite a few new musicals added! 🎶
Find out how to access Kanopy on a computer or a mobile device 👉 libanswers.city.ac.uk/faq/26…
ALT A collage of musicals "Guys and Dolls", "Rent", "Swing Time", "Across the Universe"
If you need to take a break while studying at the Library, please grab yourself a puzzle, a dot-to-dot, or a colouring sheet from the Library Help Desk! 📝📝📝
ALT A colouring sheet with a City silhouette and colouring pencils nearby, as well as some dot-to-dot puzzles and a riddle on a printed paper.
Business Library is currently open 24/7 until Friday 3rd of May.
Northampton Square Library will be open 24/7 from next Monday 22nd April to Friday 31st May.
You can see the opening hours on our website 👉 libraryservices.city.ac.uk/a…
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We're currently experiencing an issue with OpenAthens that provides authentication to most of our online resources.
Here's the systems status post that we'll update as soon as there are developments 👉 libanswers.city.ac.uk/system…
Users who've already signed in today, should be ok.
Business Library is currently open 24/7 until Friday 3rd of May.
Northampton Square Library will be open 24/7 from next Monday 22nd April to Friday 31st May.
You can see the opening hours on our website 👉 libraryservices.city.ac.uk/a…
Follow along our news👉 blogs.city.ac.uk/library/
Service announcement: Level 4 of the Northampton Square Library is currently closed due to a 'pigeon related incident'. Colleagues are attending and we expect to have the situation resolved soon. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
ALT Cartoon characters Dick Dastardly and Muttley flying planes attempting to 'Stop the pigeon' using a cannonball and a cage, in a scene from the 1960s/70s cartoon.
ℹ️ Science Direct:
Some users are not able to access content on Science Direct and are getting an error message ‘this page isn’t redirecting properly’.
This has been reported to the provider who are investigating the issue.
Follow along our updates 👉 libanswers.city.ac.uk/system…
ℹ️ SAGE is currently experiencing a server issue, so access to some of their products is currently unavailable:
🔸Knowledge
🔸Research Methods
🔸Campus
🔸Video Nursing Collection
SAGE are urgently working to solve this.
See all e-access updates here: libanswers.city.ac.uk/system…
Planning to use the library during Easter? 📚
On Friday, 29 March, and Monday, 1 April, Northampton Square Library will be open for self-service use from 10am-10pm. Business and Law Libraries will be closed.
Sat & Sun opening hours remain unchanged 👉 libraryservices.city.ac.uk/a…
ALT Northampton Square Library opening times during Easter: Friday 29th March - from 10am till 10pm (reference and self-service only); Saturday 30th March - from 10am till 10pm (staffed services from 12 noon till 6pm); Sunday 31st March - from 10am till 10pm (staffed services from 12 noon till 6pm); Monday 1st April - from 10am till 10pm (reference and self-service only).