Thesis Requests – New process

Theses have now moved to Research Reserve and requests will be dealt with as part of the Research Reserve service. This service will operate Monday – Friday ONLY
All borrowers with a smartcard and email address should use the online Thesis request form at:
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/library/services/lending/theses.php
ONLY External or Consultation borrowers who do not have a smartcard or email address should use the old-style paper request form.
Paper requests made before 9.30 a.m. Mon – Friday will be available by 4:00 p.m. the same day
Paper Requests made after 9.30 Friday – Sunday will be available by 4:00 p.m on Monday afternoon.
Electronic requests made by 12:00 p.m daily should be available by 4.00 p.m. (Mon-Fri).
Electronic Requests received after 12:00 pm Friday- Sunday will be available by 4:00 p.m. on Monday.
Holds staff will shelve the theses for collection by reader name, and send emails to borrowers who submitted their request electronically, to let them know the item is available to collect.
Theses requested on a paper form will be put on the shelves for collection, and the onus will be on the requester to come and see if it is available.
Web pages have been amended to reflect the changes.

Items in the SAPL room shouldn’t be requested electronically as they are just in the room on L3 and open access. However we have had a couple recently requested through the link on the catalogue. If you are dealing with the requests just check whether it is SAPL local (in compact shelving) you are looking for. If the request (printed by Stores) says SAPL room we need to send the reader an email explaining where to find it. We are investigating whether we can remove the request button for the SAPL room items to try and stop this happening.

If the Architecture thesis is numbered 1 to 150 it is in the SAPL room, but numbers 151 onwards are downstairs in the compact shelving, (regardless of what it says on the catalogue).

Some theses are not available because the author has restricted access to their work. This will show up on the Opac record but for the newer stock TS actually now suppress the catalogue entry so readers don’t know we have them.

Thanks
Margaret

All the Architecture theses and dissertations in the Library are now catalogued and included in the Theses collection on Aleph. It is now possible to do a single search of the Theses collection on the catalogue to find Architecture theses and dissertations.

As part of the process there has been a change to the theses that are kept in the SAPL room on level 3. At the request of SAPL the examples of UG dissertations have been moved from the compactus and they are now shelved in the SAPL room. The shelfmark is SAPL Room AT[number], e.g. SAPL Room AT100.

This collection has been refreshed with the addition of recent dissertations in place of some of the older dissertations which have been returned to the School of Architecture. A new AT list is available at the Information Desk on level 3.

The historical local collection of Architecture theses that was in the SAPL room has been transferred to the compact shelving on level 1. This collection has the shelfmark SAPL Local [number] with numbers running from 151-366. Some of the older dissertations which were of local interest have been added to the original collection.

Jessica

Index to Theses now features links to full text theses wherever possible

http://www.theses.com/obtain.asp

http://www.theses.com/obtain.asp