LibAnswers: Customer Services

Yes - 4 of our Library sites have group study rooms available.

All study rooms can be booked in advance via Resource booker 

All rooms can be used without a booking if they are clearly not in use. 

A person with a valid booking for that room will always have priority use of the room. If a room is in use by a group without a booking and a person with a booking arrives then they must be allowed its use immediately and those without a booking must vacate the room at once.

• Bookings can be made up to 28 days in advance. You will be able to see the calendar beyond that time, but won’t be able to make a booking further than 28 days in advance.
• The rooms can be booked in slots of 60 minutes up to 3 hours. 
• You can have up to 2 bookings a day, 5 bookings in any one week, and up to 10 bookings in a month. 

Main Library

There are 12 Group Study Rooms on Green 2 in the Main Library.

• Each room can be used in a booked session by a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 7 people.
• The rooms are furnished with a large table and eight chairs, a PC and a 32 inch LCD monitor.
• You will need to login with your username and password to access these PCs.
• Laptop cables are available in rooms 1-7 for you to connect your laptop to the screen.
• Rooms are bookable between the hours of 9am-8pm, 7 days a week (during term time). Outside these hours it will be on a first come, first served basis.

Alan Gilbert Learning Commons

There are 30 Group Study Rooms throughout the building in the Alan Gilbert Learning Commons.

• They vary in size from between 2 and 12 people maximum.
• The rooms are furnished with a whiteboard and a PC connected to a media screen, excepting the two-person rooms. Laptops can be connected to the screens if necessary.
• You will need to login with your username and password to use the PC.
• All the rooms are supplied with packs of whiteboard markers. Extra whiteboard markers and HDMI cables are available from the Information Desk near the building entrance.
• Rooms are bookable between the hours of 9am-8pm, 7 days a week (during term time). Outside these hours it will be on a first come, first served basis.
• Apart from the Group Study Rooms there are 24 open plan group study areas (not bookable) each with a PC and media screen.

SEED Student Support Hub and Library

There are 4 group study rooms available to book in the SEED Student Support Hub and Library. These can be found on ResourceBooker under the option 'SEED Student Hub and Library Group Study Rooms'. These are bookable between the hours 9am-5pm Monday- Friday.

Stopford Student Hub and Library

There are 4 group study rooms available to book in the Stopford Student Hub and Library. These can be found on ResourceBooker under the option 'Stopford Hub and Library Group Study Rooms'. These are bookable between the hours 9am-5pm Monday- Friday. Outside of these hours it will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

Group study rooms conditions of use.

Individual Study Spaces

• You can book an Individual Study Space in Muriel Stott, which can be found in the courtyard on the Ground Floor in the Main Library
• Muriel Stott has 36 bookable silent study spaces with spacious desks, IT provision, charging sockets, and task lighting.
• Please note that Muriel Stott is not a suitable space for meetings or presentations. Please book Group Study Room 14 in the Main Library for this purpose.