Finding your (printed) books
Finding your books is as easy as looking up a reading list and following a floor plan. This quick video explains how to find anything in your new library.
Author: David Bennett
Assistant Librarian (Promotions) at the University Library. An enthusiastic advocate of libraries, diversity, inclusion, equity, and social justice for all, inside and outside the workplace.
Black History Month in the Library 2023
Saluting sisters: celebrating the impact of Black British women This Black History Month, we are focusing on the history, legacies and lasting impact of Black women. With so much online content focused on Afro-Americans, I have tried to centre Black …
Pride in our teaching staff
We are proud to be part of a university delivering some of the best teaching in the UK. The University has once again been awarded Gold in the Teaching Excellence Framework assessment, one of only 27 universities to have reached …
Secure your bike tomorrow
Bike theft is a problem for anyone who owns a bike. Get your bike security marked to deter thieves and add it to the national property register so that it can be returned to you should the worst happen and …
Ways to say hello…
Welcome, welcome! If we haven’t met you yet, please don’t be strangers! Chat with us online, pop in and say hello, email us – the ways you can get library support are many, and help is always available 24/7.
Our “how we can help” page guides you through all our support services: click the blue question mark [?] button on any library webpage to begin.
Welcome (back) one and all!
The “Welcome” section of the Library website introduces the most important library services you will use over the next few years in a simple, bite-sized format. Here you will find a short welcome video, a self-guided virtual tour of the Library that can help you to familiarise yourself with the building before you even step through the doors, a guided audio tour of the building, a brief slideshow of things you will want to know before you arrive, and a link to our opening times webpage.
In a world determined to run mad, there’s still “The Onion”
Whatever befalls you in life, you may rely on The Onion for biting, on-point satire. Even with the grim spectre of right-wing extremism on the rise in America, we may rely on The Onion to bring us happy parody and lighten the mood.
More places to meet
Drop in and close the door on the outside world with these newest additions to our informal drop-in meeting spaces. You might have seen the open-sided sound baffling drop-in meeting pods on the ground floor and the goldfish bowl style ones with the sliding doors but these latest additions to our collection of diverse study spaces really offer something new.
CILIP 125 List Awards
Congratulations to Becky Rule in the Library Enquiries Team on recently achieving her CILIP Chartership and being awarded a CILIP 125 List Award, given to recently chartered librarians making a positive contribution to the libraries where they work!
Leather appointed luxury reaches the Law section
I promised you some months ago a brand new look for the highly popular drop-in seating area near the Law books up on the first floor. Our furniture moving is complete and we are pleased to reveal the leather-bound luxury seating up in Area 1C.
