TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 16290 SUBJECT: GRB 140516A: NOT optical observations DATE: 14/05/17 03:32:40 GMT FROM: Antonio de Ugarte Postigo at IAA-CSIC J. Gorosabel (IAA-CSIC, UPV-EHU), D. Xu (DARK/NBI), A. de Ugarte Postigo (IAA-CSIC, DARK/NBI), J.P.U. Fynbo (DARK/NBI), P. Jakobsson (U. Iceland), D. Malesani (DARK/NBI), N.R. Tanvir (U. Leicester), D. Watson (DARK/NBI), E. Gafton (OKC, Stockholm Univ.) and T. Libbrecht (Stockholm Univ.), report on behalf of a larger collaboration: We imaged the field of GRB 140516A (Bernardini et al. GCNC 16285) with the 2.5m Nordic Optical telescope equipped with ALFOSC. The observations were carried out in the R-band on May 16.89163-16.97005 UT (0.88-2.77 hours post burst) with a total exposure time of 13x300s. We did not detect any objects brighter than R=24.5 (3 sigma Vega limit calibrated against USNO B1.0) consistent with the enhanced XRT position (Osborne et al. GCNC 16289). [GCN OPS NOTE(17may14): Changed the Subject-line from 150416A to 140516A.]