Eccles Library Ceiling Remodeling, 2009-2010

All Books, Journals and Government Documents have been moved to the basement level. Eccles Health Sciences Library remains open until December 19th but is now a closed stacks library for the next six to seven months – until we re-open in June 2010. Library staff will pull requested items but our collections are no longer open to the public.

All items are in our Library Catalog (Only books and government documents have call numbers. We shelve journals by title.)

Request items from our collection via your Library Account in the Catalog, your ILLiad account,  in-person or by phone, 581-5534.

Check out our Flickr slideshow of staff efforts to relocate the entire collection prior to closing for the Ceiling Project:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ecclesmacman/show/

Note: thanks to colleagues who pointed out that the link was not working. It is working now.

Under the auspices of fire safety, the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library has been selected by the Asbestos Protocol program at the University of Utah for removal of asbestos containing materials. The ceiling tiles on all three levels of the library are slated for removal later this Fall 2009. In addition to the removal and replacement of the ceiling and updating the fire sprinkler system, upgrades to the electrical, lighting and networking systems will also be performed.

The six to eight month project will be expedited in phases and will require the library building be closed to the public for most of the project. Library services and staff will continue to be available. Library staff will re-locate to space within the Health Sciences Center such as the Health Sciences Education Building and the School of Medicine. Phone, online and virtual services will continue uninterrupted. The physical collections of journals, books and documents will be available through a delivery service. Library staff will retrieve journals and books for users.

Timeline:

• September 28, 2009:
  Begin moving library shelving and furniture. Extra shelving set up on lower level. Please pardon the noise.
• October 8, 2009:
  Lower level closed to public access. Begin moving main level collections to lower level.
• November 7, 2009:
  Lower level, north end abatement and construction.
• December 30, 2009:
  Library closed.
• July 1, 2010:
  Library re-opens.

Journals, 2000 to present are being moved to the lower level of the library. Please ask at the Service Desk for journals and library staff will pull the volume(s) needed.