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When to request a book
If you find a book in our catalogue with the location given as ‘Heythrop Mount Street', it is 'Available' to be borrowed from our reading room (the only other location description for books on-site is 'Heythrop New Acquisitions'). If a book’s location is marked as either
Heythrop Deepstore [up to 2 working days]
or
Heythrop Crown [up to 2 working days]
this means that the book needs to be requested from an off-site store.
Requesting books from off-site stores
In the catalogue, please click on the request option.
Please note that when requesting books from the off-site storage facility, every request defaults to being delivered to Senate House Library. However, Heythrop Library staff will check each request, and manually process them according to the requester’s home library. The following video illustrates this process: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k7F2pvIDSaPs9VxeAXWkfp5YD9w-ipt5/view .
Such requests can take up to 2 working days to be delivered. Since 1 July 2023 the normal delivery days are Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays
Requests get processed 3 times per week:
If a request is placed before 2pm on a
Tuesday -> the book(s) will be delivered on Wednesday
Thursday -> the book(s) will be delivered on Friday
Friday -> the book(s) will be delivered on Monday
Please always wait for the email confirming that the book(s) has/have arrived.
Once you have borrowed a book for 6 months, automatic renewals will stop and you will either need to return the book(s), or renew it/them manually. To renew books manually, please
1. Go to our catalogue (https://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/search~S3)
2. Click on "Login to your account"
3. Use your first name and surname (with a space, so "Sally Smith")
4. The Heythrop Library card number can be found on the back of your Heythrop Library card, without spaces: 019....
5. Click on '[x] Item currently checked out"
6. Renew all, or select those you wish to renew, and click on "Renew selected".
7. The system will show the new due date.
If this does not work, please contact us: heythroplibrary@jesuit.org.uk
Often the Library is not that busy, and sometimes you might find that you are the only library user. However, we still believe calls should not be taken in the library (on a mobile or a video call on a laptop)– another library user might walk ‘into your phone call’. Calls can betaken in the corridor outside the Library, or if not inconveniencing others in the Cana Room (at the end of the basement corridor).
Since March 2023, we have asked our library users to supply testimonials, sharing how and why they benefit from the collection, library services, and the Mount Street reading room.
If you are a member and would like to contribute to the testimonials, please email us: heythroplibrary@jesuit.org.uk
Heythrop Library is open to anyone with a serious interest in theology or philosophy and the related academic disciplines represented in the collection. We welcome enquiries about using the library’s collections and reading room at the London Jesuit Centre. The next two sections of this FAQ answers most membership questions, or download the most current Reader's Guide (link below).