E-mail library temporarily down

Update 23 March: the library’s e-mail account is working again
There will be a transfer of the library’s e-mail account on Friday 20 March to a new mail server. During that day it will not be possible to contact us via the regular address mgas(AT)bib.kuleuven.be.
You may contact us by telephone (016/346105) or (for urgent requests) via the e-mail addresses of [...]

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Maintenance library catalogue

On Monday 25th of August, Tuesday 26th and possibly Wednesday 27th there will be an upgrade of the university library system. Therefore our Library catalogue from LIBISNet will only be available in a light version. These means that you only can look up the books and journal titles which are cataloged before april 2008. In this [...]

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We waved Wouter goodbye

Last Friday 30 May, it was the last working day of our Campus Librarian, Wouter Schallier, at our library.

From today Wouter is the new Executive Director of LIBER, the Association of European Research Libraries, in The Hague. The contribution of Wouter on the activities and projects of our library was invaluable. He introduced and managed a lot of initiatives which [...]

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New copy card vending machine

From now on you can purchase your copy cards with a new copy card dispenser. You will find this machine and a change machine (coins) in the reading room of the library, just in front of the information desk (4th floor).
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Available copy cards: 20 units (1 euro) and 50 units (2,50 euro). Copy cards of 500 units (25 euro) [...]

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PubGet

The medical librarian and blogger David Rothman keeps a nice list (category of entries) of third party tools to search in PubMed/MEDLINE. The latest of his discoveries is called PubGet and we must say… this way of searching and getting your full-text articles is kinda special. With one single search action you can grab about 10 pdf-files of the [...]

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