I'm a new staff member, what can the library do to support me?

Welcome to the University of Northampton! This website, AskUs, has a lot of answers to frequently asked questions. You can click on links on these pages to find out more information, or you can search for your questions using the 'Type your question' box at the top of the page.

Your staff card is your library card and it is what you use to borrow books. If you have any problems borrowing items or accessing any LLS service, please let us know as soon as you can by using the enquiry form or email address above.

Library and Learning Services, or LLS, has teams within the departments who are ready to help:

Library Operations: libraryteam@northampton.ac.uk 

Learning Development: learningdevelopment@northampton.ac.uk

Academic Librarians: librarians@northampton.ac.uk

Learning Technology: learntech@northampton.ac.uk

Inter-Library Loans: interlibraryloans@northampton.ac.uk

Reading Lists: readinglists@northampton.ac.uk

Digitisation: digitisation@northampton.ac.uk

Director of Library and Learning Services: chris.powis@northampton.ac.uk        

University Librarian: georgina.dimmock@northampton.ac.uk               

Head of Learning Technology: rob.howe@northampton.ac.uk   

Head of Learning and Teaching Enhancement: emma.heron@northampton.ac.uk

There are also groups of FAQs that you might find useful:

• Learning Design
• C@N-DO workshops
• Reading Lists
• NILE
• PebblePad
• Turnitin
• Learning Technology
• Kaltura Capture.

You can use NELSON, Northampton Electronic Library Search ONline, to search for our holdings of books, journals, e-books, e-journals, videos and more. You can also use our A-Z database list to help find the resources you need.

There is a Staff handbook available, along with documents relating to University Policy, Procedures and Regulations. 

Our website, and the staff drop-down menu, will have have lots of information and pages that might help you.