Q. What services are available for staff who teach?

The Library offers a number of services to aid your teaching.

Contacting the Library:

To discuss the services available to you, please contact your Academic Librarian.

Becoming a member of the Library:

Permanent staff will automatically receive Library access and borrowing rights through their staff ID card when they join the University. Staff on temporary contacts can arrange Library access by contacting the Library & Student Enquiries team at library@le.ac.uk.

Helping your students:

The Library has lots of information to guide students through the services available, as well as subject-specific guides to academic resources. It is also possible to organise Library inductions for new students via your Academic Librarian, and there is a calendar of training workshops for students provided by the Centre for Academic Achievement.

Teaching resources:

You are able to request new books, journals and other resources by contacting your Academic Librarian. You can create online reading lists using readinglists@Leicester, and can create links to Library resources from Blackboard. If you need to scan or digitise book extracts and journal articles for your reading list, copyright information and scanning deadlines can be found here.

Copyright advice:

As well as general information on copyright, the Library provides advice on copyright and teaching, and the copyright of images. If you have any questions regarding copyright, please contact our Copyright Specialists, at copyright@le.ac.uk or by phone on +44 (0)116 229 7399.