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Could you be our Library Innovation Champion 2026?
Calling all students: submit your ideas to be crowned 'Library Innovation…
Tuesday 28 October 2025
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Resources for adapting to higher education, polishing your academic skills…
Wednesday 15 October 2025
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From freshers to final year, we have everything you need to start 2025 the…
Sunday 12 October 2025
More on Your Library EssentialsExciting new collaboration with University of Victoria
Josh Sendall is also appointed a Visiting International Fellow in the first…
Friday 10 October 2025
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Books are just the beginning. Our dedicated staff can help you to find what you need, access primary research material, and develop your study and research skills.
Library services
What you need to know about borrowing, renewing and returning the items you need and how to request items that we don’t have in our libraries.
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Skills@Library supports taught students to develop academic skills, through online resources, workshops, 1-to-1 appointments, drop-in sessions and teaching in the curriculum.
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Research Services help staff and PGRs with open access, research data management, literature searching and research visibility: online, in person and through workshops and events.
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Delve into our outstanding collections of rare books, manuscripts, art and archives and find unique primary research material.
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There are four libraries on campus, along with two public galleries displaying rare items and artworks. There is one off-campus library in St James's Hospital.
Laidlaw Library
Get access to core texts for taught courses with inspiring spaces designed for undergraduate study – write your essay looking out at the Leeds skyline.
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24-hour access to six levels of spacious and open plan study areas. Contains research collections for engineering, law, sciences and social sciences, and the postgraduate Research Hub.
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A traditional and tranquil study space, with arts, cultural industries, humanities, languages and performing arts collections, and the Cultural Collections Brotherton Research Centre.
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Specialist library with plenty of silent study space and a group study area for dentistry, health sciences, medicine and psychology, on level 7 of the Worsley Building.
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Library Quickstart
Your guide to using the libraries at the University of Leeds.
Research Quickstart
Your guide to how the Library supports researchers at the University of Leeds.