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Library and Information Services

Services to Wessex Partnership Students and Tutors

As a student or tutor in the Wessex Partnership, you are entitled to membership of Bath Spa University Library for the duration of your course. Full details of all the Library’s facilities and services are on our web pages at:
http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/services/library/
These include access to the Library catalogue and our electronic resources, FAQs and information on your Library account, e.g. how to renew your loans.

Loans and Renewals

• Your student card is also your Library card: you will need it to take out and renew loans.
• You can have up to 15 loans at a time.
• You can renew them up to five times either on the phone, through the Library catalogue or via the self issue machines, provided no-one else has put a hold on them and you don’t have any outstanding fines.
• If you phone (see below), make sure you have your Bath Spa student number ready and a phone number in case we need to get back to you for any reason.
• Loans can only be renewed by phone when Library staff are on duty (please check the opening hours information on our web pages).
• Library communications: notices, such as when your loans are about to go overdue, will be sent to your Bath Spa email account.
• Enquiries: you can make use of our Information Desk or phone with brief enquiries (e.g. checking if a particular item is on the shelf) when library staff are available.
• Computers: with your Bath Spa network login, you can use the computers in the Open Access rooms in the Library.

Unfortunately there are some things we cannot do for you:

• Books or other loans cannot be posted to you and they cannot be sent on loan to your college library.
• Items cannot be collected by library staff from the shelves for you to pick up later.
• We cannot undertake lengthy phone enquiries or check reading lists for you.

If you do need to contact either Library to renew your loans or make brief enquiries, please contact:

Newton Park Library  (01225) 875490

Sion Hill Library          (01225) 875763