A hot summer is underway on the Cornell campus, but cool Mann Library is open! Here is an overview of our summer services, including important information about service interruptions with Cornell University Library’s transition to a new platform for online library services (including the library catalog, equipment loans, and new acquisitions).
Borrowing from our stacks
BorrowDirect and Interlibrary Loan are now officially paused until July 1.
The request service for contactless pick-up of books from Mann (and all Cornell libraries) will pause from June 17 until July 1.
Various circulation services such as on-site checkouts, new requests for contactless pickup, retrieval from the Annex, and library-to-library delivery will be unavailable from June 21 until July 1.
For up-to-date information about these interruptions, please see cornell.edu/pause
Equipment loans at Mann
Again, because of the Library’s transition to a new catalog, equipment loans at Mann are unavailable until July 1.
Study spaces and lockers
Individual and group study rooms are available to book via our website, but as a reminder, rooms are limited to grads and undergrads.
Use of all other study spaces in the library building no longer requires a reservation, and our doors are open to all who wish to enter during our normal hours of operation (no card swipe access required). For Mann’s summer hours, check out our hours page.
Fully vaccinated students, faculty and staff are no longer required to wear masks in campus buildings or social distance.
Unvaccinated Cornellians and all non-Cornell visitors must continue to wear masks and follow Cornell’s social distancing requirements when in Mann Library spaces. We are following Cornell University-wide rules in this regard; to see those, we encourage you to visit Cornell’s Public Health Requirements pages at https://covid.cornell.edu/students/public-health-requirements/.
Public computers are being re-installed in our spaces shortly. We will update this page when they are available for use.
Lockers are currently not available for use.
As the summer proceeds and Mann continues to get reset for a normal fall semester at Cornell, we’ll be posting updates about our spaces and services. So check back often for the skinny. And stay cool and hydrated in the meantime. It’s been a sizzler of a summer so far—and July is still ahead!