-------- Original Message -------- Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 13:54:11 -0500 From: [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] The Institute will be partially closed from July of this year to sometime in 2013 so that the entire premesis can be renovated from tip to tail. (Over the past 2-3 years the entire south wing of Senate House has been under renovation and now its the turn of the north wing.) About a third or a quarter of the collection will be available on open stack on the south wing of the third floor of Senate House, adjacent to the Universirty Senate House Library. The rest of the collection will be available by request from storage elsewhere in the Building, and it is anticipated that, with limited staff, it may take up to an hour to fetch particular works. The reception desk, manned as usual by Beresford and Glen, will also be relocated to the third floor, south wing. Seminars will be re-located and are expected to continue. The very first stages of this process, the move itself, will require the complete closing of operations for the month of August of this year. Thanks for passing this on! Bob Tittler