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.
Tag: borrowing
Christmas cometh
Christmas is almost here and with it comes another blog post where I run after you all like an anxious mother hen, making sure you are all ready for the holidays and in no danger of finding yourself all alone and miserable without a good book or film to tide you over.
Holidays are coming, holidays are coming
Christmas opening times There’s not long to go until the festive season is upon us, so our opening times for the holidays are now available on the Library website. Our service hours for the Christmas Vacation change from Saturday 14th …
Reading for Pleasure – Happy days are here again!
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and at this time of year students and staff are particularly under strain busily preparing for exams, completing dissertations and finishing off final submissions. Our brains are crammed with ‘useful’ information, our bodies …
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Clean, simple and clear
We saw how distracting renewing books could be and how much distress fines could cause, while our staff told us they wanted to spend their time helping you rather than taking your money, so we abolished fines for any book …
Never be fined!
From September, you can borrow any book for as long as you need it or until unless someone else requests it! Ebooks are books you can read online and in some cases or download for free for a set time …
Short loan books RIP
Thanks to the extensive scanning projects of the past few years and increasing numbers of ebooks, we have been able to get rid of 4-hour loan books and the old Short Loan book room. All the books are now arranged …
Information from every source and for every purpose
Up until your final year project/dissertation, the many printed and online resources you need will all be available from our own collections. Sometimes final year research projects and postgraduate research requires access to such specialised information that we could not …
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Celebrating a year of self-service
The introduction of self-service kiosks a year ago has cut the time you spend waiting to borrow and return books. Self-service has proved popular, with 83.53% of all books borrowed and returned each month through self-service kiosks in 2013. If …
4 Hour Loan Book Transformation
In preparation for losing the Short Loan Room, we are gradually changing the status and location of our 4 hour loan books.
