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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
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So far, we have published the following Heythrop Library Newsletters:
Heythrop Library Newsletter, Spring 2024 (pdf)
Heythrop Library Newsletter, Autumn 2023 (pdf)
Like most libraries space is at a premium, and it costs us a lot of money to store materials in offsite stores. Therefore, we often cannot help to take book collections "in bulk".
If you would like to donate up to 10 books, please contact us by email, with a list of titles (including year of publication and author).
If you have more than 10 books, please consider first that about 90% of all pre-2000 books offered to us are held already.
When you contact us please let us also know how quickly you will need to dispose of the books. Finally, be aware that any books not needed will be offered to other Jesuit libraries in the UK, and then if still surplus to requirements we pass books on to a company which sells them on our behalf.
Readers may currently take up to six books out on loan for up to four weeks.
How can I renew books?
1 Go to catalogue
2 Log in with your name and your Heythrop Library card number (starting with ‘019…’)
3 Click on x items currently checked out
4 You can then try to ‘renew all’, or select specific books and ‘renew selected’. If you have problems with renewing, please ask for your books to be renewed in person, or by contacting us.
The following cannot be borrowed:·
* Periodicals
* Reference books (with red spine labels on books in our reading room)
* Restricted or fragile items (you will be informed as soon as we have assessed them)
Some items in the Heythrop Library collections are too fragile to leave the library. We cannot guarantee that all books ordered from the off-site store will be in a condition fit for borrowing until they arrive. The librarians will alert readers if fragile books need to be consulted as reference-only materials in the Mount Street reading room. Such decisions may be made at short notice. We are sorry for any inconvenience this causes and thank you for your understanding.
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).