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[tree_and_leaf]

Why do I always forget that the BL ordering system only works in office hours?

Ah well. At any rate, it looks like I'm going to have to pop up to London next Saturday. (Tuesday, the only other day that would have suited - indeed, would have been better, is too soon for the 48 hour ordering thing to work). Bother, that probably amounts to missing Doctor Who.

Such are the vissicitudes of life! It's less annoying than having to inter-library loan journals from Germany, which I'm also about to have to do...

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[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

When I was an Oxford postgrad, OLIS (which wasn't complete then, so only of partial use, and didn't include book-ordering) shut down at 1pm on Saturday and didn't come back online until Monday morning.

I'm not that nostalgic about the scramble for the guard-book catalogues that used to ensue, but when I look at OLIS I do mentally divide the entries among the different sections and am momentarily surprised when newer people don't.

[tree_and_leaf]

I think I have possibly failed to appreciate how fortunate I am!

[oursin.livejournal.com]

Not much point to that, is there? Okay, orders can only be processed during normal working hours, but I can't see why they can't enable remote ordering 24/7. Some libraries can deal with this, hem-hem.

[tree_and_leaf]

What's more, it's still insisting that this is not working hours and refusing to take my orders. Bah, I say.

Okay, orders can only be processed during normal working hours, but I can't see why they can't enable remote ordering 24/7. Some libraries can deal with this, hem-hem.

I can't see, either. If even OLIS, which is held together with the electroinic equivalent of sticky tape, can manage...