{"id":697,"date":"2025-08-22T14:27:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T14:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lawlibrarian\/?p=697"},"modified":"2025-08-22T15:05:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T15:05:35","slug":"changes-to-library-opening-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lawlibrarian\/2025\/08\/22\/changes-to-library-opening-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes to Library Opening Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: black\">From 15 September 2025 changes will be made to the opening hours of some of our libraries, these changes are set out below. \u00a0Please check the <a href=\"https:\/\/library.ed.ac.uk\/using-library\/library-opening\">library opening hours <\/a><\/span><u><span style=\"color: #1e53a3\">webpage<\/span><\/u><span style=\"color: black\">\u00a0for full details of all library opening hours.\u202f\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: black\">Semester opening times of four site libraries \u2013 Law, ECA, Moray House, Noreen and Kenneth Murray \u2013 will be: Monday to Thursday 9am-8pm; Friday 9am-5pm (9am-7pm for Law and Noreen and Kenneth Murray)\u202f<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black\">New College Library will close at 5pm Monday-Friday\u202f<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black\">Weekend opening hours of the following libraries \u2013 Law, ECA, Moray House, Noreen and Kenneth Murray and New College &#8211; will be standardised to 12pm-5pm.\u202f<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black\">Art &amp; Architecture Library will close for University vacation periods.\u202f<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"color: black\">Changes at the Western General Hospital Library\u202f<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: black\">The Western General Hospital Library will convert to a self-service Student Study Area from 1 September. The EdHelp service desk and Library will close at 5pm on Friday 22 August, and the small book collection will be moved in the week of 25 August.\u202f<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: black\">Changes at the Main Library\u202f<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: black\">From 1\u202fSeptember, the EdHelp service desk in the Main Library will close at 7pm weekdays and 5pm weekends. This does not affect the opening hours of the Main Library itself, which remains open 24&#215;7.\u202f<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Feedback<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: black\">These changes are being made based on analysis of\u00a0library and service usage and will allow us to provide a more effective service. Comments and feedback from users (both staff and student) can be directed through the normal channel at <a href=\"https:\/\/information-services.ed.ac.uk\/help-consultancy\/information-services-feedback-form\">Information Services Feedback Form | Help | Information Services<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 15 September 2025 changes will be made to the opening hours of some of our libraries, these changes are set out below. \u00a0Please check the library opening hours webpage\u00a0for full details of all library opening hours.\u202f\u00a0 Semester opening times &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lawlibrarian\/2025\/08\/22\/changes-to-library-opening-hours\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[33,46,31,27,49,93],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcADqd-bf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lawlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lawlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lawlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lawlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lawlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lawlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lawlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions\/702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lawlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lawlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lawlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}