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**Important Update! Library essentials for students from September 2020**

Welcome back! Library staff are delighted to be on campus again and therefore able to offer you some additional services to those we provided remotely throughout the lock-down period.  As … Continue reading

September 16, 2020 · Leave a comment

How to return books to RAU Library during lockdown?

  We have been receiving a number of enquiries about the return of RAU library books, so I hope you will find the following update for both returning and non-returning … Continue reading

June 11, 2020 · Leave a comment

New Year, New You!

We were delighted to see so many of you using the library on the first day back after New Year, and I know that for many of you this is … Continue reading

January 7, 2020 · Leave a comment

Reducing noise in the library

We have received a number of complaints from students about noise level in the Silent and Quiet Zones in the Library in recent weeks, and these students are asking us … Continue reading

May 28, 2019 · Leave a comment

RAU Library: You said: We did!

RAU Library listens closely to what you, our users, tell us about our services. Through your feedback, we can keep making things better. Here are some of the changes we’ve … Continue reading

February 7, 2019 · Leave a comment

Change to Journals Subscriptions

Like many HE University Libraries we are moving our academic journal subscriptions to online (e-journals) only, permitting 24/7/365 access whether you are on or off campus. Consequently the number of … Continue reading

January 8, 2019 · Leave a comment

Research Support for PhDs

In this post we want to highlight how your Library can help you in the early stages of exploring your research topic and understanding the academic skills and rigour you … Continue reading

November 8, 2018 · Leave a comment

“You said we did” the Listening Library 2017/18

The department has an established mechanism for capturing feedback from individual customers using print feedback forms. Library staff always respond in writing (usually e-mail) to comments and suggestions that have … Continue reading

January 23, 2018 · Leave a comment

‘Suggestions and Comments Wall’

In universities ‘the student voice’ has become increasingly important, and the methods of collecting feedback from students on the services they are being offered are many and varied. This academic … Continue reading

November 17, 2017 · Leave a comment

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“Libraries aren’t just for books. They’re often spaces that transform into what you need them to be: a classroom, a cyber café, a place to find answers, a quiet spot to be alone. It’s actually kind of magical. This week, we have stories of people who roam the stacks and find unexpected things that just happen to be exactly what they required”

The Room of Requirement https://www.thisamericanlife.org/664/the-room-of-requirement

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