March 1st, 2010
BREAKING NEWS — GRADUATE SURVEY
As part of the Arcadia Programme based at the University Library, postgraduates are being ask to participate in a short 3 minute online survey to answer brief questions about where they seek help developing their information search and management strategies and their awareness of online tools.
Please get involved in this unique survey which will inform future support provided to postgraduates. Everyone who completes the survey before April 9th 2010 will be entered into a prize draw to win an iPod Nano and two runner-up prizes of £20 Amazon vouchers.
Vacation loans are due for return on Thursday 22 April. For loan entitlements, see our rules.
When vacation borrowing rules are in force, undergraduates may borrow up to 6 Open Access books at a time, and up to 4 Restricted Access books at a time, provided that the total is not more than 8 books at a time.
Our opening hours are Monday-Friday, 09:00-17:00, and we are closed all day at weekends. We shall be closed from Good Friday, 2 April, to Easter Monday, 5 April, inclusive — in other words, we shut at 17:00 on Thursday 1 April and re-open at 09:00 on Tuesday 6 April.
We might, during the vacation, need to close at other times for days, half-days, and lunch hours. We’ll be very short-staffed. But we’ll give due notice of such additional closures, if we have to make them.
THURSDAY 15 APRIL
Term-time borrowing rules come back into force.
TUESDAY 20 APRIL
Easter term begins.
THURSDAY 22 APRIL
Vacation loans are due.
If you have any queries about the above, ring us on (3)33505.
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January 14th, 2010
Term-time opening is Mon-Fri 08:45-17:15, Sat 09:00-13:00 and 14:00-17:00. For most things you might need to know about the Haddon, you can explore the links shown above.
If these web pages don’t take you to what you’re looking for, ask a member of the Haddon team: Aidan Baker, Tom Hawthorn, or Alex Saunders. Ring 01223 333505 or email haddon-library at lists.cam.ac.uk
That’s how we can help you. If you’d like to help the Haddon’s work, you can donate online. Or, if you’re still not convinced, read our appeal leaflet and then donate online. Thanks very much if you do!
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November 20th, 2009
On Friday 8 January, the Haddon will close for lunch 13:00-14:00.
On Monday 11 January, the desks at the east end of the Haddon Library — the end furthest from the lobby office — will not be available for readers till after ca 11:30, as they will be in use for a mock exam.
Very sorry if those things are inconvenient to you.
The Haddon’s opening hours, during the vacation, are Monday-Friday, 09:00-17:00. We are closed all day at weekends.
Vacation loans are due for return on Thursday 14 January. For loan entitlements, see our rules page.
When vacation borrowing rules are in force, undergraduates may borrow up to 6 Open Access books at a time, and up to 4 Restricted Access books at a time, provided that the total is not more than 8 books at a time.
All Open Access books borrowed during the term were due back on Tuesday 1 December. If you are late with the books, we shall ask you to pay a £10 end-of-term fine in addition to any regular fines you may have clocked up.
We might, during the vacation, need to close at other times for days, half-days, and lunch hours. We’ll give due notice if that has to be so.
THURSDAY 7 JANUARY
Term-time borrowing rules come back into force.
TUESDAY 12 JANUARY
Lent term begins.
THURSDAY 14 JANUARY
Vacation loans are due.
If you have any queries about the above, ring us on (3)33505.
You can make an online gift to the Haddon Library at our donation page (you’ll need to check “The Haddon Library Appeal”). Thanks!
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October 2nd, 2009
The Haddon Library is an important collection of published material in the field of archaeology and anthropology. The library holds around 66,000 items – books, journal volumes, pamphlets – and it serves the staff, research students and undergraduates of the University, besides members of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society.
Term-time opening is Mon-Fri 08:45-17:15, Sat 09:00-13:00 and 14:00-17:00. For most things you might need to know about the Haddon, you can explore the links shown above.
The online catalogue for libraries within Cambridge University and the colleges is called Newton. The part of Newton that contains the Haddon catalogue is called Departments & Faculties F-M.
Cambridge has plenty of other libraries you might find helpful – the college libraries, the faculty and departmental libraries, the central Cambridge University Library (always called the UL). A basic rule of thumb is this:
college libraries are for college members only
departmental and faculty libraries admit most Cambridge University members, but have a variety of regulations and opening hours
the UL admits all members of the University, but 1st and 2nd-year undergraduates may not borrow there.
All those libraries are listed in the Cambridge Libraries Directory
To use those libraries’ catalogues online, approach Newton via its front page.
An increasing number of electronic books are available to members of the University.
If these web pages don’t take you to what you’re looking for, ask a member of the Haddon team: Aidan Baker, Tom Hawthorn, or Alex Saunders. Ring 01223 333505 or email haddon-library at lists.cam.ac.uk
That’s how we can help you. If you’d like to help the Haddon’s work, you can donate online. Or, if you’re still not convinced, read our appeal leaflet and then donate online. Thanks very much if you do!
AB
5 October 2009
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February 2nd, 2009
OPENING HOURS
During the vacation, the Haddon’s opening hours are Monday-Friday, 09:00-17:00. We might have to close for lunch on some days; watch this space.
The library will be closed all day at weekends. It will also close on the afternoon of Friday 25 September, on account of the Alumni Weekend presentation.
POETRY COMPETITION
Here comes the list of winning poems!
1st prize: ‘His eightieth’ (Roger Elkin)
2nd prize: ‘The story of 800′ (Mary Courtney)
3rd prize: ‘Sleepover at the Museum’ (Caroline Gill)
Prizes will be presented by adjudicator Sue Butler at 14:45 on Friday 25 September, in the McDonald Institute, Downing Street, CAMBRIDGE CB2 3ER. The event will be part of the University’s Alumni Weekend .
The competition was the library’s contribution to the University’s 800th Anniversary celebrations, and supported by the University’s 2009 Fund. Entrants were asked to write around one or more of the numbers 800, 1209, and 2009, interpreted freely – so 1209 could mean £12.09, or 12 September, or the area code for parts of Cornwall.
Thanks also to the McDonald Institute for the use of their premises.
The winning poems, and others entered in the competition, will remain on display in the Haddon until after the prizegiving.
QUESTIONNAIRE
The Haddon Library is looking to move some lesser-used material offsite, following a generous offer of storage space from Biological Anthropology, and then make part of the library over into a learning area.
We want to know what our users would most want from such a learning area.
Could you please tell us at the site shown below?
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=NwjlNLjr886jCYnvWd5CYQ_3d_3d
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January 13th, 2009
The Haddon Library’s opening hours in term-time are these:
Mon-Fri 08:45-17:15
Sat 09:00-13:00, 14:00-17:00
Coming soon — the Haddon Library Poetry Competition. Our contribution to the celebrations for the University’s 800th Anniversary. Watch this space!
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November 21st, 2008
TUESDAY 1 DECEMBER
All Open Access books borrowed during the term are due back on Tuesday 1 December. If you are late with the books, we shall ask you to pay a £10 end-of-term fine in addition to any regular fines you may have clocked up.
WEDNESDAY 2 DECEMBER
No borrowing, except of items on Restricted Access.
THURSDAY 3 DECEMBER
Vacation borrowing starts. There’s usually quite a queue of readers when library staff arrive in the morning.
Vacation loans are due for return on Thursday 14 January. For loan entitlements, see our web page.
When vacation borrowing rules are in force, undergraduates may borrow up to 6 Open Access books at a time, and up to 4 Restricted Access books at a time, provided that the total is not more than 8 books at a time.
SATURDAY 5 DECEMBER – MONDAY 11 JANUARY
Vacation. Our opening hours will be Monday-Friday, 09:00-17:00. We shall be closed all day at weekends. We shall be closed from Christmas Eve, Thurs 24 December, to Fri 1 January inclusive — in other words, we shut 17:00 on Weds 23 December and re-open 09:00 on Mon 4 January.
We might, during the vacation, need to close at other times for days, half-days, and lunch hours. We’ll give due notice if that has to be so.
THURSDAY 7 JANUARY
Term-time borrowing rules come back into force.
TUESDAY 12 JANUARY
Lent term begins.
THURSDAY 14 JANUARY
Vacation loans are due.
If you have any queries about the above, ring us on (3)33505.
You can make an online donation to the Haddon Library at http://bit.ly/btFEs (you’ll need to check “The Haddon Library Appeal”). Thanks!
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October 6th, 2008
The hours in term-time are these:
Mon-Fri 08:45-17:15
Sat 09:00-13:00, 14:00-17:00
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June 1st, 2008
SATURDAY 14 JUNE – MONDAY 6 OCTOBER
Our vacation opening hours are Monday-Friday, 09:00-17:00. Thanks, Helen & Tom, for the Bank Holiday opening. We are closed all day at weekends.
On Friday 26 September, the library will close at 13:00, and remain closed all afternoon, for our Alumni Weekend presentation. This will be on the life and adventures of Wilhelm Blandowski — a troubled Prussian in 1850s Australia. The Haddon has a rare copy of Blandowski’s 1862 publication, Australien in 142 photographischen Abbildungen.
There may be other occasions where we shall have to close for lunch, or for longer periods, during the vacation. Information about them will be circulated by email and posted on our website.
During the vacation, undergraduates may borrow up to 6 Open Access books at a time, and up to 4 Restricted Access books at a time, provided that the total is not more than 8 books at a time. Vacation loans are due for return on Thursday 9 October. For loan entitlements, see our web page
http://haddon.archanth.cam.ac.uk/about/rules.html .
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April 17th, 2008
Wireless access is now live in the Haddon, via the University’s own Lapwing facility.
You will need a Raven password to use Lapwing. See https://raven.cam.ac.uk/ and http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/electronicresources/stepbystep.html for more.
For information on how to find Lapwing, and what to do with it when you have found it, see http://lapwing.csx.cam.ac.uk/ .
All due thanks to Netx, to Tuong and Alan from the Computing Service, and to Jon and Ian here, for setting up. Jon’s next Haddon project is to get the new photocopiers charging and printing networkedly. Watch this space for further developments.
Our other current news, regrettably, is that a reader had her bag stolen in the main reading room on the afternoon of 15 April. Everyone keep an eye on personal belongings while they’re here, or use the lockers, or leave the belongings in a secure place away from the Haddon.
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