McHenry Library Addition and Renovation Blog

We're still moving and settling in, but the McHenry Addition is open for business!

The entrance to the building is now on the south side. The old entrance will be closed off for the next 18-24 months while construction crews renovate and seismically retrofit the older part of McHenry. Access and parking information is available on the Maps and directions page. All of the collections, service desks, and staff have moved and we're getting unpacked. A directory of services and floor maps of the addition is available on the McHenry page. Some of the moves are still in process, including the Media Center's film and music collection as well as book call numbers M-PN on the third floor of the addition. These areas will be roped off with caution tape until they're completed later this week. Stay tuned for the announcement of a celebration and house-warming in our new digs!

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The Library and Instructional Computing are partnering together on a pilot project called the Science Library lab. Starting on March 31, 2008, the Cowell Room computer lab at the Science and Engineering Library will be supported and staffed by Instructional Computing.

Current students, staff and faculty with a UCSC login and password will be able to print their documents and have the jobs billed to their UCSC account (or bill), as is the case in other IC labs. Printing jobs using a Copier Services print card is still be an option for the public, as it is in other Library printing locations. The hardware, software and lab policies will be similar to other IC lab locations.

This pilot will run until the end of Fall Quarter, 2008, in order to gather data and analyze what the next steps will be. For more information, visit http://ic.ucsc.edu/scilib and please feel free to give us feedback at ic@ucsc.edu.

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Beginning Winter Quarter 2008, laptops will be available for checkout from McHenry Library. The circulation desk has 10 Apple MacBooks available for students, faculty, and staff to use in the library. More...

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The SCIENCE & ENGINEERING LIBRARY WILL BE OPEN SPRING BREAK the following hours:

Friday March 21: 8am-8pm (last day of finals)
Saturday March 22: 1pm-5pm (see restricted services below)
Sunday March 23: 1pm-5pm (Easter)
Monday March 24 - Thursday March 27: 8am-8pm
Friday March 28: CLOSED (campus holiday)
Saturday March 29: 1pm-5pm
Sunday March 30: 1pm-5pm

Regular quarter hours resume on Monday March 31.

Saturday, March 22nd: (these services will resume Sunday March 23)
There will be no off-campus access (OCA) to any licensed resources such as journals.
Cruzcat will also be unavailable. Use Melvyl or Online Journals to search our holdings, or, if you are on-campus, to find links to licensed resources.
S&E Library public printing will not be available.

Please call the S&E Library Reference desk at 459-2886 if you have any questions.

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During the McHenry Library move over Spring Break, the library servers and the services hosted on them will be unavailable from 8pm on Friday, March 21 until 5pm on Sunday, March 23. The following services and websites will not be available:

Library Website
Science & Engineering Library Website
Cruzcat
Off-Campus Access (OCA)
Request via Interlibrary Loan
Ask-a-Librarian
Request a Library Instruction Session
SlideCat

The following services are available:

Melvyl, UC-Wide Library Catalog

Though McHenry Library will remain closed for the move until March 31, the Science & Engineering Library will be open over spring break. The Library's servers and electronic resources will be available again for on- and off-campus users on Sunday, March 23.

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It's getting closer to completion! These recent photos, taken by Eric Baker of Library Operations, show the landscaping planting, paving at the new temporary entrance, some of the interior colors, the new library stacks end panels, and a view looking over the large reading room from the third floor balcony.

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