The University of Bolton will close today (Thursday 22 December) and will re-open on Wednesday 4 January 2012. This includes the library, which will close at 5 p.m. Further details of our opening hours are available here. Don’t forget, however, that electronic resources are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, so even as you await the arrival of Santa in the early hours of Sunday, you will still be able to carry on with your work. Although no library staff will be available over the Christmas period, plenty of help is available on the library website. Take a look at the A to Z list of electronic resources, that includes access notes and the subject resources pages that include further details about database coverage and content as well as downloadable database guides.
It’s been a busy year. We’ve had the usual maintenance issues and problems with databases, and they have been some fairly major changes to some of our databases, some good, some not so welcome. However, we have also taken out subscriptions to a number of new databases which we hope you are already finding useful and that are going some way to enhancing our electronic collections.
I’d like to wish you all the very best for the festive season, and wish you all a happy, healthy and prosperous 2012.
Sarah, Electronic Resources Librarian
