Resourcing you to go further

Every year, you tell us that our resources were one of the things you like most about your courses.  We are excited to empower you to fulfil your potential and go further, and have spent nearly £3 million on resources to ensure you have everything you need to succeed.  We have also worked hard to make it easier to understand how to find and use our electronic resources. 

We turned our Subject pages into tailored learning paths taking you from first steps to final projects with library teaching,  support, and the best resources for your subject and then launched a new look Discovery Service that makes it easier than ever to find what you need from a simple search and then apply powerful tools to pinpoint the evidence most relevant to your research question. 

Enhanced infrastrucure

As well as continually enhancing our IT infrastructure, our colleagues in IS have introduced ‘bring your own device’ docking stations to the Library so you can connect your own device, rationalising the unnecessary cables so they are working better.  We are poised to move to a cloud-based version of AppsAnywhere, bringing the full suite of University software to you on your device, wherever you are working. 

A library that comes to you

You told us that you did not all enjoy reading exclusively from a screen, and not all books are available electronically, so we began posting books to everyone on request and scanning articles and book chapters if they were only available in print.  Now everyone can read our print books, no matter where in the UK they are staying.  We still strive to offer ebooks for all your required reading and everything recommended for distance learning courses so that you can read or listen to your core materials at home or on the go.