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Early warning: Tue 9 December Library closed between 12:00 and 14:00On Tuesday, 9 December 2014, the Marshall Library will need to be closed between 12:00 and 14:00. Therefore we are open on that day between 9:00 and 12:00, as well as from 14:00 until 17:00. We are sorry for any inconvenience caused!

Dawsonera (ebook platform) working againApologies again for lack of ebook provisions via Dawsonera, earlier today.

Dawsonera (ebook platform) not working at the moment Our ebooks@cambridge colleagues have reported that Dawsonerea (one of our ebook platforms) are unavailable due to "unforseen circumstances". Hopefully, services will be restored as soon as possible. The ebooks team will update us as soon as there is further news. We apologise for the inconvenienc…

Topping up DS-Print credit at the Marshall Library (trial, until the end of this term)In addition to topping up DS-Print credit online, you can now also top up your printing account at the Marshall Library in cash. We will trial this until the end of term.Things to know:you need to have been added to the 'list of students for Economics', which is s…

Christmas Vacation Borrowing for MPhil, Undergraduate & Diploma studentsOpen Shelf / Basement BooksAll are borrowable until the end of vacation borrowing on Tuesday 12th JanuaryShort Loan BooksThese are all subject to 'Total Recall' and must be returned to the Library by 9pm on Wednesday, 2nd December.Short Loan books not returned on Wednesday will…

Have you used the Library's electronic Legal Deposit Terminal yet?It provides access to electronic legal deposit material, i.e. resources deposited by UK & Irish publishers in a digital format. Please go to http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/legaldeposit/ld_access.html for more details.LibarySearch finds records of such items (at the moment: primari…

Get individual chapters scanned!We can scan1 chapterfrom1 bookof your reading list and make it available to1 year of students(e.g. Part I students) only.Please go to our Scanning Request Form, fill it out and we will investigate the possibility of scanning the relevant material and making it available online as an eCounterItem.

Libraries system: working again!The Libraries system is working again!Please access your account viahttp://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/library_widget/library_widget_login.cgito check whether you can renew items.We are sorry for any inconvenienc caused due to the outage of our systems since yesterday 5pm.

Libraries system failures (since yesterday): ongoingCambridge University libraries are experiencing global system failures; therefore you cannot:access Newton catalogues or LibrarySearchrenew a bookput a hold on a bookrecall a bookWe are very sorry for any inconvenience caused, and will update you once the system is running again.

Reminder: Trial Saturday Opening Hours - use it or lose itIf you would like the Marshall Library to continue to be open on Saturdays from 11 am to 6pm please come tomorrow and in the following weeks to the Library, work for a couple of hours in the Library, and get our statistics up. It's "use it, or lose it"! As the Library is now staffed by two l…

New Library Team Member: Chris HirstChris joins the library team working mostly weekday evenings helping keep the library open for those of you who appreciate the quieter time to work. Chris comes from an acting rather than academic or librarian background (having first come to Cambridge to play the Arts Theatre some years ago.) which means he is a…

New Books in October 2014A list of all new books at the Marshall Library in October 2014 is now available viahttp://www.marshall.econ.cam.ac.uk/printresources/new-books-added-to-stock/October2014If you would like to keep up to date with newly-processed books at the Marshall Library, please use one of the following alert services:1. Notification by …

New Library Team Member: Sophie ClarkeSophie Clarke has begun working for the Marshall Library on an hourly basis. She will primarily work at the Marshall Library to facilitate better service provisions on Saturdays in term time. Sophie is carrying out her PhD research at the Faculty of Education, where she also works in the Education library on we…

Free photocopies of articles, working papers, and more...We are getting rid of a high number of working papers and former counter items (i.e. chapters copied from books as part of reading list requirements) as these are available online. There is also the odd journal issue of journals we do not hold, as well as Cambridge University ephemera. If you…

2015 Careers in Economics Event: Tue 27th October 13:00-15:00The Marshall Library is hosting this event on behalf of the Careers Service. A programme of events and list of companies and organizations that will be attending is available at the following location :http://www.careers.cam.ac.uk/datain/datainform_general/eventorsg_general.asp?purpose=EF…