Spring Break Information
Library staff will be taking a well deserved break over the bank holiday weekend. We will be back in on Wednesday 3rd April at 9am but library services will still be running, and there are lots of UON teams onsite if you need them.
Answered By: Library Help Last Updated: Aug 16, 2023 Views: 318
Once your course has officially started you are automatically made a member of the University library. You have a library account, which is connected to your Student ID card. This means that you can come into the Learning Hub and browse and borrow books from our collection. It also means that you can use the ebooks and ejournals that you can find through NELSON. This is all because of your library account.
When you borrow books you get a due date, this is the day that you need to return the item to us. You can find this on the receipt the machine gives you. Most of our resources can be borrowed for four weeks at a time, although a few resources can only be borrowed for a week at a time. If the book hasn't been requested by someone else you can 'renew' it, this means that you can extend the borrowing period of the book to a later date, and this can normally be done up to fifteen times.
Logging into your library account will help you keep track of all the library resources you have borrowed. It lets you see your due dates for each item, and will let you renew the resources if they haven't been requested by someone.
I still have questions about my account, who can I speak to?
There are lots of ways you can contact us, any time of the day or night:
- email at libraryhelp@northampton.ac.uk
- our Chat service by clicking on the blue speech bubble at the bottom right of every page
- speaking with a member of library staff at the enquiry desk, located on the second floor of the Learning Hub during staffed hours
- ask us a question using our 'Submit a Question' form
- call us on 01604 89 3089
We get a lot of questions about borrowing books and how your library account works, please let us know if you have any questions! We're happy to talk to you about your library account, how it works, how to find and borrow books, how you can renew items, how to return them, and more. You can identify us by our yellow lanyards (the yellow ribbon around our Staff ID), we're happy to help out!
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- How does borrowing and returning library resources work?
- What are the loan types and rules of borrowing?
- How do I renew my loans?
- I'm a new student, can you help me?
- I need help logging into my Library Account
- How do I access ebooks and ejournals in NELSON?
- Staffed hours
- Submit a question
- Pathways - finding your way around libraries
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