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Library Survey 2014: your suggestions - our feedbackThe Marshall Library Survey 2014 was conducted in March and April 2014. Some Highlights of the undergraduate results and the list of winners have already been published.208 student and staff of the Faculty of Economics, Development Studies and 3 other Faculties filled out the Marshall Library 2014…

Catherine Sutherland joins us today on an hourly-basis. She will be working three evenings per week and occasional weekends to facilitate better service provision in Easter term.  Catherine is the part-time Deputy Librarian for the Pepys Library & Special Collections at Magdalene College, and welcomes the opportunity of working in a lending library…

Mon 7 July 2014 - early notice of closure (main University Library and Affiliated Libraries)Cambridge will be hosting the start of stage three of the Tour de France on Monday, 7 July 2014. Owing to the large number of visitors that are anticipated, the planned road closures to accommodate the event, and the resulting travel disruption for staff, th…

Kevin McGeoghegan leaving the Marshall LibraryKevin McGeoghegan is known to regular Marshall Library users for working evenings and Saturdays, and has until recently also helped us with opening the Library on Sundays (1-5). Readers using the Mill Lane Library will also have seen him there. The Marshall Library Team is sad to see Kevin go, but for m…

Vote for a new Marshall Library mug - have a chance to win 1 mug!Vote for your favourite design - the mug which gets the most votes will be produced and sold at the Marshall Library!Go to https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FHSPCKF to vote for 1 of 7 design options for the mug (or tell us that you do not like any of them). If you enter your CRsID, you w…

Library Survey 2014: highlightsThank you to all of you who filled out the Library Survey 2014, and sorry for the delay in sharing some of the results with you.You can see the highlights of the student survey athttps://magic.piktochart.com/output/1917129-marshall-library-of-economics-20[this does not seem to work with Internet Explorer, but works fi…

Hassan Goreja starts working for the Marshall Library today on an hourly-basis. He will primarily work at the Marshall Library to facilitate better service provisions on Saturdays in term time, as well as (for a trial period in Easter Term 2014) opening the library on Sundays. Hassan is studying towards a Ph.D., here at the Faculty of Economics. We…

New ebook in Economics!Bernard M. Hoekman and Michel M. KosteckiThe Political Economy of the World Trading System Third Edition Oxford University Press 20099780199553778Access via MyiLibrary (on campus) orhttp://ezproxy.lib.cam.ac.uk:2048/login?url=http://lib.myilibrary.com/browse/open.asp?id=576475 (off campus, via Raven password)

Exam Support - opening Mon-Fri: 8:30Between 26 May 2014 and 13 June 2014 the Marshall Library will be opening at 8:30 am, to support you with your Economics exams. This might be especially of interest to students sitting an exam in Lady Mitchell Hall or in the Lecture Block at 9 am.

Bank Holiday Mondays in May 2014: we are open as usual (9 am - 7 pm)We are open on both Bank Holiday Mondays in May:5th and 26th May 2014as usualinterm time:9 am until 7 pm.

Alessandro Bianchi joins us today on an hourly-basis. He will primarily work at the Marshall Library to facilitate better service provisions on Saturdays in term time, as well as (for a trial period in Easter Term 2014) opening the library on Sundays. Alessandro has previously worked as library invigilator at the FAMES library. Welcome!

Cite Them Right OnlineCite Them Right Online explains how to reference just about any source. Also, it is useful for understanding how to avoid plagiarism. Go on! Give it a go. Note: this is only available on campus.

Easter Vacation loans due: Thu 24 April 2014East Vacation loans (open-shelf books issued before 17 April 2014) are due on Thu 24 April 2014, 7 pm.If there is no hold on the item(s) you have, and your account is not blocked you can renew any book online. If you need to return the book, but won't be in Cambridge on the 24th April, please use the book…

Borrowing at Marshall: changes from 24 April 2014 (Trial until 15 December 2014)1. Accounts to be blocked by number of overdue items: Before:  an account gets blocked if only 1 item is overdue.From Thu 24 April 2014:  an account gets blocked if 5 books are overdue2. Fines/Amount blocking account: Before: £0.01 (i.e. any fine) will block your accou…

Easter term trial: Sunday opening!As requested by a significant number of students we will open on the first 6 Sundays in Easter Term (as a trial), in order to support you with revising for your exams.Therefore the library will be open on the following Saturdays and Sundays, from 1-5pm:26 & 27 April 20143 & 4 May 201410 & 11 May 201417 & 18 May 201…