================= HES POSTING ================= MESSAGE FOR BRITISH LIBRARY READERS RE-OPENING OF READING ROOMS AT ST PANCRAS FROM MONDAY 29 MARCH We are pleased to announce that the industrial action by the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) has now ended, and agreement has been reached on how the issues at the centre of the dispute will be resolved. The library assistants have undertaken that there will no further strike action on this issue this year. We apologise once again for the disruption to your work over the past three weeks but can now begin to restore the full service from Monday (29th March). Over the next four weeks we will move towards full resumption of humanities services, and the introduction of the Science Technology and Business interim services at St Pancras, in a phased sequence. This will ensure that readers can be confident that reading rooms will be open as announced below. For the week of 29 March - 3 April reading rooms will open as follows: HUMANITIES AND RARE BOOKS AND MUSIC READING ROOMS Monday 29 March 0930 - 1700 Tuesday 30 March 0930 - 2000 Wednesday 31 March 0930 - 2000 Thursday 1 April 0930 - 1700 Friday 2 April - Monday 5 April Closed for Easter MANUSCRIPTS, MAPS AND ORIENTAL READING ROOMS Monday 29 March - Thursday 1 April 0930 - 1700 >From Tuesday 6 April full service for humanities materials will be restored: HUMANITIES, RARE BOOKS AND MUSIC READING ROOMS Tuesday 6 & Wednesday 7 April 0930 - 2000 Thursday 8 April 0930 - 1800 Friday 9 & Saturday 10 April 0930 - 1700 MANUSCRIPTS, MAPS AND ORIENTAL READING ROOMS Tuesday 6 - Saturday 10 April 0930 - 1700 >From Thursday 8 April the next stage of the SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS services in the new St Pancras reading rooms will be available. Full opening of all the Science, Technology and Business reading rooms will be in June this year when all the collections have transferred to St Pancras. The interim service during the period of the moves will begin as follows: >From Thursday 8 April, SOCIAL POLICY & INFORMATION SERVICE, by appointment only between 0930 and 1700, Monday - Friday. Appointments can be made from Wednesday 31 March by telephoning 0171 412 7536 >From Wednesday 14 April, BUSINESS and SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SERVICES , by appointment only between 0930 and 1700, Monday - Friday. Appointments can be made from Thursday 8 April. For BUSINESS, telephone 0171 412 7454/7977 For SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, telephone 0171 412 7288/7494/7496 The PATENTS SERVICE will remain open in Southampton Buildings until 16 April, and until 7 May in Chancery House. The PATENT EXPRESS service for the provision of copies will continue throughout the period of the moves. The Reader Admissions Office will be open as normal for the issues of passes and advice on admissions procedures for all reading rooms. Throughout this period the exhibition galleries, events and education programmes, the bookshop, cafe and restaurant will be open to readers and to the public. For further information please telephone 0171 412 7676. ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]