Biology Library News

Biology is no longer available as a Pick-Up location

The biology library is no longer available as a pick-up location on Requests in the catalog. It will also be removed from the Mobius catalog options soon. In the future, please choose Olin Library Circulation or another library if that is more convenient. I hope stopping at Olin Library will be fairly convenient to most biofolks. As an experimental service for people with biology department mailboxes, if you have materials available for pick-up at Olin Library Circulation that you would like to have delivered to biology, just forward your email notice to Ruth Lewis.

Schedule for biology library closing and relocation

August 6: current unbound journals move to Olin Library Level 1 Periodical area
August 7, 5 pm: Biology Library closes permanently
August 10-11: authorized ID card access (afterhours users) or by-appointment access only to the Biology Library
August 12-14: books and journals are moved to Olin Library (Level B and staging areas on Level 1)
August 10-17: throughout this period, Ruth Lewis will move to Olin Library room 139. Her phone number 935-4819 and email address rlewis@wustl.edu will remain the same
August 17-25: biology materials are available in Olin Library but there may be a transition period as interfiling with the Olin Library collection happens; in addition to interfiling book call numbers, journal and review serial volumes will need to be interfiled by call number since they were filed alphabetically by title in biology

Tips for dealing with the transition:

1. Try not to plan work with paper biology library books and journals August 10-14; contact Ruth Lewis is you do need something during that period!
2. Get your fall 2009 reserve lists in as early as possible; in addition to a little inevitable confusion in the stacks, we will have a new Reserves system for everyone this fall.
3. Check the online catalog and remember to jot down the call number (even if it's a journal) and level (A,B, 1, 2 or 3) before you come over to Olin Library
4. Keep Ruth informed about your library needs; I can't work on solutions if I don't know about problems, plus I'll be missing you all. I hope to have some visitors over in Olin Library! Just ask at the front Help desk and folks there will be happy to help you find me the first time. I'll be in Olin room 139.

Printing no longer available at library public computers

The public printer is no longer available in library and level 2 Life Sciences Building public workstations. Printing is available in most other campus libraries. Color printing is available in Chemistry Library, Earth & Planetary Sciences Library, the Art & Architecture Library and the Arc (in Olin Library). More printing info.

Public photocopier no longer available.

The public copier in the Biology Library is no longer available. (For biology department users, your department machine is still in place.)  Non-Biofolk who need to copy will need to check out materials and take them to another location.

Progress report on relocation of biology library collection

We are (so far) keeping the catalog records up to date so you shouldn't have any problem finding items in the biology library.  When we know our moving/closure date, I will let you know.

VHS videocassettes have been transferred to Olin level A.

Folios (very oversize volumes) have been transferred to Olin Library level B

Biology copies of Dissertations have been transferred to West Campus; in most cases these will be circulating 2nd copies.  Remember most  dissertations published after 1996 are also available online in pdf format to WU users via Dissertations and Theses @ Washington University in St. Louis

Department of Biology and Department of Zoology publications collections have been transferred to West Campus. Future collections will be a web page of citations with links to online versions.

Most materials formerly shelved in biology reference and biology permanent reserve have been transferred to the biology general stacks, so they will go to Olin Library level B with the major move later this summer.  A few volumes have been transferred to the Reference shelves in Olin Library level 1.  In cases where there were already copies at Olin Library, the biology library copies have been withdrawn.

Biology books with call numbers A-P (except oversized books) have been transferred to Olin Library.

Your questions, concerns and suggestions are always welcome!  Ruth Lewis  email rlewis@wustl.edu phone 935-4819.