Nottingham Trent
University
Your Library
Boots (City) Brackenhurst Clifton Mansfield Online
Library Essentials
Your guide to the library -
the heart of your studies
All Library opening times
Library contacts and IT Support
Silent, quiet and group study spaces
Borrowing library material and laptops
Academic skills support - 1-1 appointments
Online access 24-7 - eBooks, eJournals and databases
Key information
you need to know
NTU username
The student number on your student card,
e.g. N0123456.
Password
Only you should know and use it. Look it
up via the ‘Get or reset your password’ link
in the Student Hub. You can access this
via the ‘Students’ link in the upper right
hand corner of the NTU website.
Email
Your NTU email address is:
[email protected]
Access your email via https://my.ntu.ac.uk
IT facilities
The library provides:
• Frontline IT support and advice
• Open access PCs
• Spaces to use your own devices
• Loanable laptops
• Print, copy and scan devices
• Assistive software / equipment
NTU Online
Workspace
Extended Library Study Lounges NOW is your virtual learning
environment, and it’s an
We offer Extended Library Study Lounges
essential part of your student
with IT and printing facilities around our life. Access is via My Hub.
campuses, to help you find the study https://my.ntu.ac.uk/
environment that best meets your needs.
Printing and photocopying
You’ll get credit to start you off,
which you must then top up.
Add money to your account online at
www.ntu.ac.uk/smartcard
Your Library
Your library is physical and virtual. eBooks, electronic journals,
online subscriptions and much more are available
24-7 as long as you have access to the
Internet and your NTU username
and password.
Discover what’s available to you in
the library and online by using Library
OneSearch on your NOW homepage.
You'll find movies, graphic novels, maps,
images, and so much more than you'd imagine.
Borrowing
Use the self-service machines to borrow materials.
Don’t forget your student card!
Type of student How many How long?
items?
Renewals and
Full-time / Part-time • 7 days requesting
30
Undergraduate • 4 hour laptops
Your books will automatically
• 24 hour laptops
renew indefinitely, unless
someone else has requested
the item. You can use
• 7 days Library OneSearch to check
Full-time / Part-time 30
Postgraduate • 4 hour laptops the status of your loans or
Taught • 24 hour laptops
to request a book that is out
on loan or at another campus.
Need something that we don’t
Distance Learning / • 14 days have? Look out for the pink
30
Enhanced Services • 4 hour laptops ‘Get my book’ and ‘Get my
• 24 hour laptops journal article’ links on the
top bar of Library OneSearch.
Using the library
Your library has extensive opening Tel; +44 (0)115 848 2175
hours including 24-7 at peak times. Email:
[email protected]Check the library website for
opening hours at other times Visit us in person or join us for
www.ntu.ac.uk/library a library tour.
Academic skills
support Study spaces
As well as library and IT facilities, you
Want some help with your can also take advantage of a wide
studies or research? range of comfortable and appropriate
study spaces. These include:
Talk with the Library Learning and
Teaching Team. They can help you
Red silent study rooms for
with academic writing, maths and when you want to concentrate
stats, referencing, study skills, and and work without any distractions.
research. Book a face to face or
virtual appointment at Amber quiet / individual areas
https://librarybookings.ntu.ac.uk for when you want to work alone
but like to have others around.
Talk to a Library Student Mentor,
who are undergraduate and Green group and collaborative
postgraduate students from across spaces for when you want to
work with your friends.
the University, for academic peer
support with study skills, including
There are open-plan group study
maths and stats.
areas at all four libraries, complete
with study tables, PCs and power
Academic Skills Tutors, Advisers sockets for laptops. In addition,
and Librarians are also available you can book a group study room
to book to talk 1-1 about your studies. or a group study table for up to two
hours per day, per group using our
Check the NOW Student Help learning online booking service.
room for lots of useful tutorials and
We look forward to seeing you in
guidance. You can find it by selecting
the library.
the Help link towards the top right of
any page in NOW.
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www.ntu.ac.uk/library
