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King James Library – South Street
Library
Library Services As a new student, the University of St Andrews Library will form a central part of your academic career. The aim of the Library is to provide access to materials and information resources which will help you with your studies, in a supportive learning environment. All new students are offered an orientation tour of the Library.
Expert and helpful staff are on hand to help you find information to support your learning, and to ensure that you make the best use of the wide variety of print and electronic information resources and services on offer. All students have access to expert support from a member of our specialist Academic Liaison Librarian Team. Your librarian can provide help and training on finding information as well as being a point of contact for all Library matters.
The main University Library is located in the centre of town, within easy walking distance of Schools/Departments and halls of residence. It is open for nearly 100 hours per week during the semester, including weekends. The Library holds over 800,000 books, a growing e-book collection, more than 11,000 print and electronic journals, academic databases and an extensive collection of DVDs.
A large number of public workstations give you access to SAULCAT, the Library’s online catalogue. A separate large cluster of networked computers can be used to access the Library web pages and the many online databases and electronic information resources subscribed to by the Library. You can access SAULCAT, other Library catalogues and the Library’s many online databases from any networked computer and, of course, using the University’s wireless network. Most of these databases can also be accessed from anywhere in the world with internet access. The self service Short Loan Collection of heavy-demand books recommended by lecturers is another popular library service. In fact, more than 80 per cent of all borrowing from the Library is now done by students using self service, saving users time and queuing.
Our exceptional Special Collections Department houses around 120,000 rare printed books, particularly strong in theology, classics, history, English and Scottish literature, as well as the University’s fine manuscript and photographic collections and the University archives, which date from the early fifteenth century onwards.
In addition to the Main Library there are substantial libraries elsewhere on campus:
– The JF Allen Library at the North Haugh has been recently renovated to a high specification and offers a variety of quiet individual and group study spaces.
– St Mary’s Library for Divinity and Mediaeval History. – The King James Library.
All matriculated students have access to these additional Library spaces. There are also some smaller class libraries throughout the University, administered by individual Schools and open to their students.
St Andrews students are also entitled to borrow from the nearby libraries of the universities of Dundee and Abertay.
The University is currently planning an extensive refurbishment of the Main Library, due to begin in June 2011. This refurbishment will provide dramatically increased and improved study spaces, enhanced computer provision, better social learning spaces and increased research facilities.
Check the Library web pages to follow these exciting developments and other information about our services at:
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/library
“The warm welcome and support, combined with the academic and extra-curricular opportunities offered, has been for me the perfect place for academic and personal growth preparing me for life ahead.”
Graeme (Oxford)
Library
Ben Goulter
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