Reference facilities

• We provide public access to relevant websites, catalogues and reference books.
• Computer terminals are available in both the East Midlands Room and the Reading Room. 
• A range of online resources can be consulted from the reading rooms.
  • Online library catalogue for printed books
    East Midlands Collection books and most Special Collections material are listed on UNLOC.
  • UNLECC electronic version of the card catalogue
    Includes Special Collection material not yet available through UNLOC.
  • Manuscripts Online Catalogue
    Search for information about manuscript collections, including detailed descriptions for most major holdings 

 

• Some terminals also permit searching of national archive resources which hold our catalogues
• These include A2A (Access to Archives), as well as websites of general relevance to historical research.
• For some manuscript collections, detailed lists are only found in hard-copy typescript catalogues.
• These are located on shelves in the East Midlands Room, arranged alphabetically by collection reference.  

 

• A series of reference books is available to support use of the holdings.
• Titles which relate to particular collections (e.g. general resources for D.H. Lawrence studies) are usually housed in the Reading Room.  
• Other reference material is found in the East Midlands Room. This includes:
  • biographical dictionaries
  • chronologies
  • gazetteers and atlases
  • literary handbooks
  • books on palaeography
  • bibliographical reference books
  • guides to using historical sources

 

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