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50 Resources for Healthcare: 7. Get books on your reading list – check our catalogue

The library catalogue holds information about all the print resources we have - that’s books and print-based journal titles – as well as ebooks, DVDs and CD-Roms.

You can search it to find the books on your reading lists. If we have missed something feel free to send your reading list to us or make a suggestion for us to buy it. 

We have lots of etutorials to help you to get to grips with the catalogue and find the items you need at the Health Library:

You can also use the catalogue to renew your books online and request any items that are already on loan to someone else.

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