Monday 29 September 2014

Putteridge Bury Reservations service

I am one of the course representatives on the evening course for education studies at Bedfordshire library. We have just begun our third, and final, year of our studies and have been informed that we can no longer reserve books from other libraries for collection at our site.
Due to the course being part time, we are only on campus once a week, many of us have full time jobs, children to care for and live some distance from all of the Bedfordshire campuses. Not being able to collect books from putteridge bury is going to be particularly problematic as until now we were able to collect books within our session and return them the following week. Having to travel to another site on a different day means that this would cut into our already busy schedules. I hope you can help us with this to continue the brilliant experiences we have had so far

Due to circumstances beyond our control we can no longer staff Putteridge Bury library. This means that Putteridge Bury stock cannot be reserved and Putteridge Bury is no longer a reservation collection point. When you reserve other materials from the library catalogue please select the next most convenient campus to collect your books from ie Butterfield LRC, Luton LRC, Bedford Library, Aylesbury LRC or UCMK
Access to the print stock is offered for a limited time and the University would ask you to issue and return your items without staff help. If you get stuck please ring 01582 743895 for assistance
You are advised to take advantage of Luton LRC or Bedford Library as they are open 24/7 x 365
We are trying to work on an interim solution so we can re-introduce the reservations service so in the meanwhile please select the next most convenient campus to collect your books from ie Butterfield LRC, Luton LRC, Bedford Library, Aylesbury LRC or UCMK