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Find out what is going on in the Main Library, Martyrs, JF Allen, the King James and St Mary’s College Libraries. News, services, resources, spaces and events will all be covered in the posts below. For opening times and full information about the Library, please check our webpages.

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Library collecting competition 2024

In January 2025, we’ll be celebrating 10 years of the James David Forbes collecting prize. There’s more information at the bottom of this post, but before that happens, it’s time for the 2nd annual Library collecting…

Libraries opening hours for winter

The Christmas vacation and inter-semester break are coming up, so to try to help you plan-ahead, our revised opening hours can be found below. These include some additional opening hours at sites on the North Haugh…

Help us to improve the library search

The current library search system is reaching the end of its days, and we’ll be launching a new system to replace it in January 2025. You can read more information about the coming changes here, but for now we’re busy…

Waterworks at the Main Library

As you may know, the Main Library had to close early on Tuesday 9 April 2024, and we wanted to provide some information about what happened. Simply put, the building’s water supply shut down, which meant we were not…

Study spaces during revision and exams

We love our small town, but it can be hard to find study space when you need it. This can particularly be the case during the revision and exam period. And, while it’s great that so many of you choose to study in the…

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Libraries Open Forum

On Wednesday 15 November, we held our first Libraries Open Forum on the theme of study spaces. The event was co-hosted by Libraries and Museums and the Students’ Association in the Main Library and featured a number of…

Library Collecting Competition 2023 – results!

The Library collecting competition has now closed, and the winners have been chosen. We had some really great entries, with a wonderful mixture of collections running the gamut from books, photographs and playbills, to…

Library opening hours for winter.

The Christmas vacation and inter-semester break are coming up, so to try to help you plan ahead, our revised opening hours can be found below. These include some additional opening hours at sites on the North Haugh…

Library Collecting Competition 2023

In advance of next year’s J.D. Forbes collecting prize, the Library is running a collecting competition of our own. Your collection can be anything – books on a theme (these can be books owned by you or owned by the…

Student book recommendations – all about More Books

As postgraduate students continue their research over the summer, we would like to bring your attention to the more books service.  If you come across a book in your research which we don’t have, and you think we…

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