We're doing our best to bring all of our services and spaces back on line as efficiently as possible throughout the summer.
Ohio University Libraries will have modified hours and services for Summer Semester 2021. Our hours and services are subject to change as we begin re-opening for Fall.
Find answers to the most common questions about our services, spaces, hours, and safety.
Study Spaces & Building Access
Ohio University Libraries’ facilities on the Athens and regional campuses are open with modified hours and services during the Summer 2021 semester
You can still get live remote help during all hours of operation.
Yes, Alden Library is now open to the public.
As we return to normal, we'll be moving a lot of furniture around. Please forgive our noise and mess!
The library will be cleaned regularly in accordance with the cleaning protocols from the University's Facilities Management and Safety team.
We will also provide self-cleaning supplies so that you can sanitize your workspace before and after you study.
Ohio University’s Facilities Management and Safety team continues use of its modified cleaning process, originally created in March, to keep our University community safe while ensuring spaces are fully sanitized.
The changes include using EPA-approved disinfectants that destroy the COVID-19 virus and focusing cleaning efforts on common spaces, restrooms, and high touch points. High touch points are areas that are frequently touched by individuals’ hands as they move through a facility, such as door handles and glass, handrails, drinking fountains, faucet handles, light switches, and elevator keypads.
When campus reopens for normal traffic, Facilities Management and Safety will continue to focus on common areas, restrooms and high touch points, and when in-person classes resume, staff will add additional in-depth cleaning and disinfection of classrooms on a daily basis, along with increased cleaning services in residence halls.
Once these cleaning tasks are complete, staff then move on to project work, such as detailed and restorative cleaning, such as floor refinishing, carpet cleaning, cleaning of light fixtures, and deep cleaning of restrooms. With limited functions returning to campus in recent weeks, more emphasis has been placed on cleaning of public spaces and less emphasis on project work.
Fully vaccinated individuals also longer have to maintain physical distance in non-classroom indoor public spaces on campus, including our Libraries.
Fully vaccinated people do not need to wear masks indoors in campus buildings. Unvaccinated people are required to wear masks indoors
All floors are now open during the posted times. Please see the "Other Floors" listing on our hours page for more information.
Yes, Alden Library is now open to the public.
Yes, Alden Library is now open to the public.
All floors are accessible during the posted times. You are welcome to come retrieve items from your locker or carrel at your convenience.
For time being, we are not taking new locker requests.
Yes. Our libraries are now open for browsing and retrieving materials.
You can also use the "Request" button in the ALICE Catalog if you prefer contactless self-pickup. You will be notified by email when your materials are ready, which will typically be within 5 business days for items from your home campus. Items requested from other campuses may take 1-2 weeks to arrive at your home library.
Hours and directions vary by campus location and are listed in the FAQ below.
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Pickup on shelves on the 2nd Floor . Valid OHIO ID is required to enter. |
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MON-SAT 10 am - 4 pm |
You must have pre-existing card swipe access to Glidden Hall to pickup at the Music & Dance Library Additional Music & Dance Library directions
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| Chillicothe |
TUE & THUR 10-3 |
Pickup by appointment outside the library |
| Eastern |
MON - THUR 10am- 2pm |
Pickup at Shannon Hall |
| Lancaster |
MON - THUR 9 am -4 pm |
Pickup from cart inside the library entrance |
| Southern |
TUE & THUR 12 - 3 pm |
Curbside Pickup available Call 740.533.4622 when you arrive. |
| Zanesville |
MON -THUR 10am-2pm |
Pickup inside the south entrance |
Each campus has different pickup directions.
Your items will be held on the shelves past the cafe. Turn left as you enter the second floor and walk past the cafe.
Your items will have your name on them and will already be checked out to you. Items will be held for 3 business days.
Please observe social distancing if other patrons are picking up items.
Masks are required when entering campus buildings, including Alden Library.
Your checked-out items will be placed on a cart in a bag with your last name visible.
The cart will be inside the library entrance, M-Th 9am-4pm..
If you have questions about OhioLINK borrowing, please email pcirc@ohio.edu.
Yes, items from the Annex and Music & Dance Library will be delivered to the pick up location in Alden Library or to a regional campus library.
Yes. You may request materials from other Ohio University campus libraries to be shipped to your campus library.
Interlibrary Loan is operating with extra safety precautions.
If you have questions about Interlibrary Loan, please email ill@ohio.edu.
Guided by the research findings of the REALM Project, University Libraries’ staff have developed safe handling protocols for library materials, including wearing gloves when preparing materials for contact free pickup. Additionally, we are quarantining new books and other acquisitions, items returned through the book drops, and materials as they move from one staff member to another during processing. Significant to overall safety, we are also limiting access to materials in the stacks to a small number of staff. Through these procedures we are endeavoring to mitigate the potential transfer of the virus for both our staff and users. As testing continues and our understanding of how COVID-19 is potentially spread via physical items, our protocols will be updated.
Email library.borrowing@ohio.edu(opens in a new window) for assistance with Athens Campus materials.
Email careynev@ohio.edu(opens in a new window) for assistance on the Lancaster Campus.
Email cecil@ohio.edu for assistance on the Eastern Campus.
Return the item in the nearest book drop or simply leave it on the pickup shelf.
No, Faculty/Staff Delivery is not available at this time. We are planning to resume the service this fall.
Yes. The Libraries are pleased to be able to offer access to our collections, ILL and OhioLINK services through our contactless self-pickup service to the Emeriti community. If you have issues requesting items through ALICE, contact the Libraries at library.borrowing@ohio.edu for assistance.
Yes, Alden Library is now open to the public.
Library materials can be returned to any Ohio University campus library book drop, or any open OhioLINK library’s book drop within the state.
For students who can’t get to an OhioLINK library to return materials, the Libraries' are sponsoring a UPS book return program to return their items borrowed from OhioLINK, Interlibrary Loan, or Ohio University Libraries. This program is available now through summer 2021.
How does it work? Just fill out this survey to let us know how many books, dvds or other items you will be returning. We will generate a UPS return label and send to your email address. After you receive the return label, you have two options:
Further details will be included with the return mailing slip. If you have any questions, contact Deborah Daniels.
Yes. The Libraries offer electronic delivery via PDF of journal articles and book chapters through our Document Express (from OHIO owned items) and Interlibrary Loan (from other libraries) services.
We are currently not able to provide print and other physical reserves services. The very nature of that program is not compatible with safe handling protocols developed in response to the current pandemic. Instead we encourage instructors to identify portions of printed works we can scan and make available in accordance with copyright law. For complete works, we will purchase electronic access when possible. Please note, the Libraries cannot purchase textbooks. Instructors should check the Digital Course Materials program from OIT to see if the assigned textbook is available there.
Requests for scans, to be placed by the instructor in Blackboard or made available by the Libraries through electronic reserves, should be made using the Illiad System. Under the "New Requests Menu" in Illiad, select the option for "Course Reserves."Since both purchasing and scanning can take time, requests should be made as far in advance as possible to ensure timely availability.
Instructors are encouraged to contact course reserves staff at reserves@ohio.edu with questions about course reserves and to contact their subject librarian if they have any questions or concerns about digital materials.
Contact your subject librarian with questions about locating content.
Contact us for assistance locating materials to fulfill assignments.
There are some items in our collection that do not circulate and typically cannot be checked out. However, these are extraordinary times, so please contact us with the details of what item you need, and we will do our best to arrange a way for you to use the item.
If you are near an OhioLINK member library, you can use the pick-up anywhere feature to have items sent to that library for you to pick up. Some OhioLINK Libraries are not providing pick-up service at this time, so be sure to contact your local OhioLINK Library first. If you are not near an open OhioLINK member library or are outside of Ohio, your subject librarian can help you establish a relationship with a local library near you. Typically, it is easier and faster to borrow from somewhere close to you, but if that is not possible, we will work with you to get the materials to you.
