Advance notice: Monday 20th Feb 2012 - special event at Senate House

Advance notice: Monday 20th Feb 2012 - a special event is being held at Senate House. Visitors may be asked to follow instructions from Senate House staff. Please note that access to the library will not be restricted and Senate House staff will be on hand to assist. The South Block Café will be closed until at least 13:00. The Library apologises for any inconvenience caused.

New Database trial; The Congessional Collection

Senate House Library is now trialling the Proquest Congessional Collection; comprising the Congressional Research Digital Collection and Congressional Hearings Digital Collection. These allow users to consider US policy decisions from the last 175 years with a more complete perspective, giving their research more contextual relevance.

Monday 30 January: Special Collections reading room service will operate from the Durning-Lawrence Library

On Monday 30 January 2012, the invigilated Special Collections Reading Room service, and access to the Palaeography and Book Studies Collections, will operate from the adjacent Durning-Lawrence Library on the fourth floor of Senate House Library. This is due to essential collection moves. A fetch service at 10h00, 12h00, 14h30 and 16h00 will operate to bring requested rare and Palaeography and Book Studies materials to the Durning-Lawrence Library. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

South Block lift out-of-order

The lift at Senate House South Block is out-of-order. We apologise for the inconvenience. Readers unable to climb the stairs should ask at the Senate House South Block reception desk for help with access.

New lifts will be installed in the coming months, work is already underway and this is putting extra strain on the one remaining functional lift.

Help us improve our website!

Get a free £10 Amazon gift voucher. Senate House Library is in the process of redeveloping its website. To help us achieve this we will be conducting individual feedback sessions. These sessions will last about twenty-five minutes or so and involve answering a few questions about the website and completing a simple exercise.

As an incentive the first five participants will receive a £10 Amazon.co.uk gift voucher.

To share your views or to arrange a feedback session please email Adrian Graham at adrian.graham@london.ac.uk

The feedback sessions will take place in Senate House Library at a time convenient to you.

If you are unable to attend a session please take a couple of minutes to complete the online website survey. We are keen to hear from a diverse range of Library users, including undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as faculty.

Your help is appreciated.

Ground floor, drop box access

Please note: the drop box  is available from 7.00 am to 9.30 pm Monday to Friday, and from 9am to 6pm on Saturdays. It is closed on Sundays.

Advance notice: Special Collections, Tuesday 17 January 2012

On Tuesday 17 January 2012, the invigilated Special Collections Reading Room service, and access to the Palaeography and Book Studies Collections, will operate from the adjacent Durning-Lawrence Library on the fourth floor of Senate House Library. This is due to essential building works in the Sterling Reading Room. A fetch service at 10h00, 12h00, 14h30 and 16h00 will operate to bring requested rare and Palaeography and Book Studies materials to the Durning-Lawrence Library. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Lift access from the ground floor of Senate House up to the 4th floor, into the Library, is temporarily unavailable

The main lifts from the ground floor up to the 4th floor, into the Library, are currently out of use / being serviced. Should readers be unable to use the stairs please ask the ground floor reception desk to ring up to the Library. A member of staff will come down and escort you to the service lift. Please note that the service lift is quite narrow and may not be able to accommodate wheelchairs. Engineers are working on the lift to get it back into operation as soon as possible. Should readers have any issues accessing the Library please phone 020 7862 8468 or email shl.enquiries@london.ac.uk and we will do our very best to help. The library apologises for any inconvenience caused.