Everyone who works there can help you – like really EVERYONE. If they are wearing a yellow lanyard, then you can ask them anything you need to know – Where are my books? How do I reference this article? Can I learn how to write essays? Can you buy this book for the library? Can you waive my library fines (haha only joking!). If they don’t know the answer themselves they will find out.
It’s open 24 hours. If you are a naturally early riser or a night owl – the library is there for you when you need it. You can quite literally work all night long if you have a tight deadline – although you should maybe check out their time management workshops if this becomes a habit!
It has nearly a million books and gives you access to over 80 million online resources. That is a seriously awesome amount of books – if you laid them end to end you could get to LONDON and BACK! You can access all the online journal articles, ebooks, conference papers etc right from your own PC, laptop or mobile device. You have no excuses for not finding what you need. If you need help searching for these resources they run workshops to help with that too (see 5).
It has a cool cafe.The library cafe sells your morning bacon sandwiches, lovely muffins and great coffee – all without leaving the building. You can eat anywhere on the ground floor and take sealed hot drinks in reusable cups up onto the other floors too (as well as bottled cold drinks).
It has a Skills Team that can help you get better grades. Confused about referencing? Want to understand feedback from your essays? Want to learn to use academic software better? The library’s Skills Team provide advice, run workshops and even offer personal appointments. Just go to www.hull.ac.uk/skills to find out more.
The reading room is SILENT as well as beautiful. The reading room is the perfect place to open your minds but close your mouths. Some people concentrate best without noise – even music. If that is you – you know where to head. Look up too – the lights are copies of the original 1950s ones and rather beautiful.
There are power sockets EVERYWHERE. If you have got your own laptop and want to charge it while you work, or you need to top up your mobile battery then just look around you – even the tables and chairs have in-built power sockets so it won’t be a problem. We also have several stations with mobile phone charger cables in case you run low.
You can book a private study room or interactive table. If you want to work in a group on a project you can book a study room or one of the cool interactive projector tables on the 7th floor. You can discuss things without disturbing other students and getting dirty looks! Just click on Room Bookings on the Library home page.
You can volunteer there to get work experience. The library recruits volunteers every year to work with both their Customer Service and Skills teams. You can either work on the library floors helping with customer enquiries and general library tasks or you can get extra training in facilitation techniques and help run Skills Workshops – or you can do a bit of both! Ask a the Welcome desk about taster sessions or go to www.hull.ac.uk/lib and click on ‘Volunteer with Us’.
The view from the 7th floor is amazing. It’s great to see the city of Hull laid out before you – and you really should check it out on bonfire night – fireworks going off everywhere you look! The space up there is fantastic too – white boards, interactive tables, furniture you can rearrange as you need it. It also houses our rare book collection in the cube in the middle – ask a member of staff if you want to make an appointment to look at these.
like really EVERYONE. If they are wearing a yellow lanyard, then you can ask them anything you need to know – Where are my books? How do I reference this article? Can I learn how to write essays? Can you buy this book for the library? Can you waive my library fines (haha only joking!). If they don’t know the answer themselves they will find out.
That is a seriously awesome amount of books – if you laid them end to end you could get to LONDON and BACK! You can access all the online journal articles, ebooks, conference papers etc right from your own PC, laptop or mobile device. You have no excuses for not finding what you need. If you need help searching for these resources they run workshops to help with that too (see 5).
The library cafe sells your morning bacon sandwiches, lovely muffins and great coffee – all without leaving the building. You can eat anywhere on the ground floor and take sealed hot drinks in reusable cups up onto the other floors too (as well as bottled cold drinks).
Confused about referencing? Want to understand feedback from your essays? Want to learn to use academic software better? The library’s Skills Team provide advice, run workshops and even offer personal appointments. Just go to www.hull.ac.uk/skills to find out more.
The reading room is the perfect place to open your minds but close your mouths. Some people concentrate best without noise – even music. If that is you – you know where to head. Look up too – the lights are copies of the original 1950s ones and rather beautiful.
If you have got your own laptop and want to charge it while you work, or you need to top up your mobile battery then just look around you – even the tables and chairs have in-built power sockets so it won’t be a problem. We also have several stations with mobile phone charger cables in case you run low.
If you want to work in a group on a project you can book a study room or one of the cool interactive projector tables on the 7th floor. You can discuss things without disturbing other students and getting dirty looks! Just click on Room Bookings on the Library home page.
The library recruits volunteers every year to work with both their Customer Service and Skills teams. You can either work on the library floors helping with customer enquiries and general library tasks or you can get extra training in facilitation techniques and help run Skills Workshops – or you can do a bit of both! Ask a the Welcome desk about taster sessions or go to www.hull.ac.uk/lib and click on ‘Volunteer with Us’.
