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From the Campus Library: At the recent Student Experience event in the Students Union, one of the suggestions was that we should make available some way for library users to suggest books for purchase. This is now available under test. It is accessible from the ‘My Library’ drop-down menu on most catalogue screens, or from here . Please note that to avoid being spammed by booksellers it is controlled by the same authentication as that used when you come to renew loans or reserve items. Purchase suggestions will be checked regularly. Provided that we have your email address you will be notified whether we are progressing with purchase or not: all purchases have to be related to academic requirements and funding is limited, so we can’t buy all the books that we would like to. Please let us know what you think of this new facility. Health Library users can also make stock suggestions using the form available in the library.

The login screen to access your library record has been updated. There is now a single set of boxes which can deal with any type of card number. This should make it easier for you to login to renew loans or reserve books, while also freeing things up for us to make further improvements. Catalogue Login Screen

Due to the increasing demands on the service and budget restraints, a new fee will be introduced for the renewal of interlibrary loans borrowed from the British Library. A couple of years ago the British Library started to charge for renewing loans £3.10 per renewal, which up until now the Library has managed to cover. A subsidised fee will be introduced of £1.00 per item per renewal. The ILL team will add this as a manual fee to the appropriate library record once confirmation of the renewal has been received by the British Library.

Please help us maintain our high standard of service by considering what it is you are requesting. Here are a few helpful tips to save your own money and staff time: If the article is only 1 page, then generally it will be a letter, comment or poster abstract from a conference. The full research might not necessarily have been published. When performing a literature search, if a title is in brackets, then the full text is in a foreign language. All abstracts are published in English, but this doesn't mean the rest of the document is. Please check that the article is not published ahead of print. This is a premium rate service offered by publishers, but libraries generally don't have access until it has gone to print. If renewing a book loan from the British Library, please can you let the library know if it is required for a couple of days or a full renewal.