Sophie Bury, Business Librarian & Head, Bronfman Business Library
Published Wednesday August 28, 2013

So you talked and we listened! During the most recent academic year the Schulich student body and the Office of the Dean of Schulich communicated a strong interest in longer Bronfman Business Library opening hours to support study needs.

In the short-term we responded by extending our hours in the run-up to exams and during the exam period in Winter term 2013. We extended our hours for four solid weeks from Mar. 25^th to Apr. 21^st, and offered longer hours on six out of the seven days each week! At the time we both blogged and tweeted about this to spread the happy word. The fact that this was our most popular tweet of the year also made us pay attention!

The final outcome, we hope you’ll agree, is a pretty awesome one! Commencing Sept. 9^th 2013 (the first day of Fall classes) we will be offering longer opening hours at the Bronfman Business Library every day of the week (Monday to Sunday) for the length of the Fall term (until the exam period ends).

This marks the breaking of new ground for us. We hope you love our longer opening hours and that our usage statistics (and comments!) will tell a tale of a gap in your study needs unmet to date.

Here’s a summary of the new hours which will apply this Fall term totalling an additional eleven hours of opening time:

Mon.- Thurs.              8 am – 11 pm [we used to open at 9 am and close at 10 pm]

Fri.                              8 am – 6 pm   [we used to open at 9 am]

Sat.                             9 am – 6 pm [we used to open at 10 am and close at 6pm]
Sun.                           11 am – 8 pm [we used to open at 12 pm and close at 8 pm]

Published Wednesday July 17^th, 2013

We got some love the other day online (wahoo!), and I think that these two posts bring to light a really important issue about our space here at Bronfman: not only is it beautiful and well suited for study, but it’s open to all students, regardless of the program that you are enrolled in.

The first post on YU Awesome highlights that we are open to all business students, drawing your attention to all of our awesome business-related services: research help, materials, group study rooms, and our silent study room (when not even typing will do! – it’s completely silent in there, no laptops allowed).

The second post on Your Libraries at York blog is actually a student comment made in response to a first blog post by our University Librarian on the coolest place to study at York. In this post, Sobia notes the beautiful space and natural lighting of Bronfman that really help her to get the best out of her studying.

EDIT: I forgot to mention this from @wwoolrich that had us laughing out loud!!!

Note to library worked! Thanks @Bronfmanlibrary ! Went to re-borrow the book. They’re all “hey, it’s the tabs guy!” http://t.co/geX4yfsJlL

— William Woolrich (@wwoolrich) July 4, 2013