Join the Library by filling in an online registration form. Complete your registration by coming into the Library (View map) and collecting your card from the Membership Desk (Senate House, 4th floor). Use the card to enter and exit the Library. Learn more...

Borrow notebooks and iPads in the Library by visiting the 4th floor Service Desk. Connect devices to the uol-open WiFi network. Your username is your membership number, and your password is your last name (in lower case letters and including any spaces or punctuation). To connect your own device to the WiFi network, you may need to configure it first.

Search for books, journals and other material from the frontpage of our website, or from the Library Catalogue.

From the catalogue, write down the the book's location and classmark or take a quick snapshot of the screen using your mobile phone. If you are unsure where to go have a look at the Library floorplans.

The Library uses three different classification schemes to arrange books. Please note that the most common classmark system we use (Bliss) is case sensitive (upper case letters are generally shelved before the lower case ones). Learn more...

Borrow items using the issue machines, 4th floor, Service Hall. Reserved items are filed under your name on the shelves next to the machines. There are machines for returning books.

Renew items using your membership number to login to the Library Catalogue. You can renew books by phone during opening hours on 020 7862 8500 (press option 3), and in person using the 4th floor machines, or Service Desk. Please note that books reserved by other readers cannot be renewed, and fines are charged on overdue items.

Click the Catalogue link to access an electronic journal (red highlight). The catalogue indicates which years we have. If the journal is available in print, 'Request' it via the Fetch service (yellow highlight). Current issues are usually held in the 4th floor Periodicals Room - the catalogue shows which shelf bay (green highlight). Visit the print and electronic Journals page...

Some items are located as Stack Service or Offsite Store. These are fetched by Library staff. Use the Request button to order them (green highlight). Stack Service items normally arrive the same day. Items from the Offsite Store take 24-48 hours. Collect items from the Service Desk, 4th floor, Service Hall. Find out more...

Send documents to print from the remote printing page. Follow the instructions to upload documents to the print queue. You will need your Library card. You can also make copies and PDF scans and send them to your email address, or release print jobs from the machines on floors 4, 5 and 6. Add credit using the kiosk or by visiting the Service Desk, 4th floor.

Printed Special Collections, rare books, archives and manuscripts are available upon request in the Historic Collections Reading Room, 4th floor. The palaeography and books studies collections are open access, but different opening hours and special guidelines apply to all Historic Collections. See the website for details or ask staff in the Reading Room.

Only bottled water is permitted in the Library. For any other food or drink, you can visit the South Block café on the ground floor. Mobile phones may be used silently in the Library, although you can make phone calls on the staircases if you wish.