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<span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px">Please see below information from the Library about preparations for re-opening.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px">Bengt</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px">Please see below an update on the Library’s preparations for re-opening. We don’t have a date for re-opening just yet but we will communicate that as soon as we can. We have staff in the Library now getting everything
ready and making all of the necessary changes.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px">We are aiming to open in advance of the new PGDE cohort starting on 19<sup>th</sup><span> </span>August</span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px"><a href="https://www.strath.ac.uk/professionalservices/library/coronavirus/clickandcollectservice/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline">Click
and Collect service</a><span> </span>is up and running and already popular</span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px">Freepost return service for books being targeted at specific groups of finishing students at the moment</span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px">Plans to use the Strathclyde and/or the gate supplier App for barcode entry/exit to Library</span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px">Signage in place for social distancing, keep left on staircases, one person at a time in the book aisles etc.</span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px">Hand sanitiser dispensers located throughout the library</span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px">Reduced seating/PC capacity:</span></li></ul>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px">360 study space only (but some may have a socket)</span></b></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px">170 study space with a PC/connection to big screen</span></b></p>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px">GRAND TOTAL: 530 seats (all areas wi-fi enabled)</span></u></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px">Perspex at enquiry desks and Library shop</span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px">Loan periods adjusted (short loan books now go on loan for 1 week instead of 1 day) and 72 hour quarantine period for all returned books</span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px">No food in the Library and vending machines will be switched off but a small amount of eating space will be available in the café on level 2</span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px">Myplace module called Academic Library Skills will be available from the start of the new academic year</span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px">Plans for Faculty specific online training/inductions</span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="margin: 0px">Working on a Library video to highlight all the new safety measures</span></li></ul>
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