Essential Information
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National Maritime Museum
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27 Oct 2008
With plans progressing on the £35 million redevelopment of the museum, to include a modern research and reading room and improved storage for the paper-based collections, we are pleased that the building work will begin earlier than initially planned. The move of the archive and library collections currently stored in the South West Wing of the museum to temporary offsite storage will therefore begin earlier.
Because of the revised schedule, the Caird Library will close to all our users on Saturday 20 December 2008. The Library will reopen in late spring/early summer 2009.
Access to online catalogues and electronic resources such as Ancestry will still be available from the E-Library which will be open from Monday to Friday, 13.30-15.30, telephone 020 8312 6516. General enquiries will also be handled at this time. Although staff cannot undertake extensive research, we will endeavour to advise about the archive and library collections during this period. Please contact library@nmm.ac.uk or manuscripts@nmm.ac.uk.
We will continue to provide a copying service (digital scans) for master's certificates and crew lists during this period. However, as most of the collections will be in transit, they will be unavailable for copying until after the move.
We will publicise the Caird Library's reopening date as soon as we can. When we reopen, the service provision will be revised: the Caird Library will then be open by appointment Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and the first Saturday of every month. Information on how to make an appointment and how to order items in advance will be published soon.
To find out more about the Sammy Ofer Wing development, please see our website, which is updated regularly http://www.nmm.ac.uk/about/sammy-ofer-wing/
If you have any comments or feedback on the proposed development, please let us know here on the blog, or see 'Tell us what you think' on the Sammy Ofer pages above.
Eleanor (Head of Archive and Library)
Further update on 4 December 2008: New Caird Library opening hours