Library News

Work on the various aspects of this project will continue over the next couple of weeks, concentrating on the following areas:

Week beginning 17 June

There will be ongoing work in the atrium and the Short Loan area.

An upgrade to the Smart Card system is in progress. This will involve closure of the Print/Copy Room on floor 3 with the result that there will be no printing, photocopying, cash upload or fines payment facilities on this floor. Alternative facilities will be available on all other floors.

PC replacement work will continue on floor 2.

Week beginning 24 June

There will be ongoing work in the atrium and the Short Loan area.

There may be minor disruption to all Smart Card enabled services during this week while the Smart Card upgrade project is completed.

PC replacement work will commence on floor 1.

International & Postgraduate Student CentrePostgraduate students should note that the International & Postgraduate Student Centre will offer exceptional summer opening between 10.00am to 5:30pm on Saturdays and Sundays between Saturday 20 July and Sunday 15 September. This facility is being made available on a temporary basis to offer alternative study options for postgraduate students during the McClay Library Enhancement Project.

 Thank you for your patience during this project and we will continue to communicate details of the work planned on a regular basis.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Politics & Society is now available to QUB staff and students from here or via QCat.

This resource includes tens of thousands of historical primary sources relating to the social and political climate in Great Britain during the “long” nineteenth century, and consists of more than 1.7 million pages. The collections are sourced from a variety of institutions, including the British Library and The National Archives, Kew.

With British Politics and Society, scholars can research and explore a range of primary sources covering such topics as British domestic and foreign policy, the working class, trade unions, Chartism, Owenism, public protest, radical movements, the cartographic record, political reform, education, family relationships, religion, and leisure.

Peace Process: Layers of Meaning is a hybrid project involving collaboration between Queen Mary, University of London, Trinity College Dublin and Dundalk Institute of Technology http://www.peaceprocesshistory.org/

It includes the Lomond directory of surviving interviews, social investigations and oral histories of the Peace Process.