Access and membership - review of BHCL Service Standards

* 1. Access and membership

Our libraries and services are available to all members of the University of Oxford, the OUH Trust, and other organisations with whom a Service Level Agreement is in place. A current list of these organisations can be found on our Webpages. There is no charge for membership of the library for staff or students affiliated with these organisations.

Our staffed and opening hours vary from site to site. The current staffed and opening hours of each site are displayed on our Webpages.

1.1. Under normal circumstances, our libraries are open from Monday to Friday excluding statutory and University holidays, days on which the buildings are closed, and other periods as agreed in advance by BHCL and the OUH FT. Opening times for each site and alterations to these times will be advertised in our libraries and on our Webpages.

1.2. Under normal circumstances full members of the library have physical access to facilities (excluding books) 24 hours a day, seven days a week at the Cairns Library and (for staff and students with a NOC security fob) at the library at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre. Access to book stock in all libraries is restricted to staffed opening hours, however where budgets permit we will aim to provide access to online copies of heavily borrowed books.

1.3. All those eligible for membership will be able to join Bodleian Health Care Libraries and use our services immediately when our libraries are staffed between 9am and 5pm.

These are our current draft standards in this area. Please submit your comments/thoughts/feedback in the box below: