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.

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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. 

We have a guide if you have never used a library before, or not for a long time, and you want to know more about how libraries work with books and services. 

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:

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!