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Online support

  • Log in to your Library record - renew your books, check due dates and fines & request an item not held by us.
  • Undergraduate / Postgraduate support  - Essential information to help you with essays, projects and assignments and studying for exams. Contact information for staff who can assist you
  • Academic staff support - Information for lecturers on how to ensure students can access course material and reading lists, digitising course material, how to order books. Contact details for staff who can advise you.
  • Subject librarians - Contact information for staff who can help you with specific information queries in your academic discipline

Library enquiry points

  • Enquiry Service - available to help with anything you need to know about the Library and where to start looking for the information you need.
  • Request an item from another library  - Inter Library Loans and staffed photocopying service
  • Maps, Official Publications & Statistics Unit  - available to help with anything you need to know about the Maps, Official Publications, European Union and Statistics collections.
  • Special Collections - One of the foremost resources in Scotland for academic research and teaching. Built up over a period of more than 500 years by purchase, gift and bequest, the collections now contain more than 200,000 manuscript items and around 200,000 printed works, including over 1,000 incunabula
  • Other University of Glasgow Libraries - James Herriot Library (Veterinary Medicine), James Ireland Library (Dental), Adam Smith (Social Sciences ) and Chemistry Libraries and other libraries in the University of Glasgow.

Specialist support

  • Disabled users support - Library facilities available to disabled students & contact details for the Library Disability Coordinator
  • Distance learning support - services available specifically for distance education students.
  • Visits for school pupils - we welcome pupils from all schools whether local or further afield. Advanced Higher and Sixth Year Pupils can use a huge range of books and journals. This service to schools is offered completely free of charge.