The Library Bulletin

While public libraries in NSW are now allowed to reopen, the Bar Library will not be reopening as yet. We know that you have been missing the textbooks in particular and we appreciate your patience and forbearance. As restrictions are beginning to ease, we are pleased to advise that from 9 June 2020 the Bar Library will be trialling a 'Click, Collect and Return' service for textbook loans.

We hope that this service will enable us to fulfil your requests for hard copy textbooks without significantly increasing health risks to library users and staff.

The Click, Collect and Return Service will operate on Mondays and Thursdays 11:00 am-1:00 pm. Please see the how to guide here.

The books will be available for you to collect from a trolley outside the library on the sub-basement level of Selborne Chambers. There will also be a returns trolley available. The library will not be open; it will only be possible to collect and return books at these times.

Please note that we will not be able to provide recalled books at the speed of light as we will be working within current guidelines regarding quarantining and sanitising library materials and relying on the kindness of your colleagues in returning books currently on loan:

"The current recommendation is that books be quarantined for 24 hours. Materials that are in a plastic case or covering should be wiped down with alcohol wipes, or with alcohol-based cleaners. Alternately, these materials can also be quarantined for 72 hours".

Regional members of the Bar, please email your requests and we will trial a DX or Express Post service for you.

If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact us by email at libref@nswbar.asn.au or libloans@nswbar.asn.au and remember, don’t hesitate to ask if you are in need of anything. We have mysterious ways of finding things.

The Bar Librarians are currently working from home between 9am and 5pm Monday to Friday.