Durham University Library

📢 Midnight opening is back!

As of today, the Billy B will be open till Midnight until the end of term 🥳 Colleges provide study spaces for students after Midnight.

We’re taking part in Banned Books Week UK! 📚🚫

From 4-10 October, we’ll be celebrating the freedom to read, highlighting books in our collection that have been banned, challenged or censored. At a time where books are being increasingly challenged, taken off shelves or targeted due to the ideas they hold, Banned Books Week UK brings literature lovers together to celebrate the right to read freely - and we'd love for you to get involved!

If you are passing through the Billy B this week, make sure to check out our display to learn more about why some books were banned, and maybe borrow a banned book! All books on display are available to loan.

You can also have a look at our Banned Books Reading List and the Banned Books List on the Libby app for more reading (links in our comments👇)

Banned Books Week

Did you know that Durham Book Festival is on next weekend? 📚

This year, we are working with the festival to spread some extra literary joy to our lovely students 💜

Hint: it may or may not involve us giving away 250+ free books... Keep an eye out if you're in the Billy B between 7-11 October 👀

Wow, it’s been brilliant speaking to so many of you at our Welcome Fair this week! 💜 If you haven’t had chance to visit us yet, we’re back next Monday and Tuesday from 10am-3.30pm - see you then! 😊

Did you know that there are so many incredible resources available to you during your time at Durham, including books, electronic resources, Archives and Special Collections and Museum collections?

Check out our Welcome Guide for more information on how to access them 👉https://libguides.durham.ac.uk/welcome/resources

Come and check out our annual Black History Month Bookshelf. Located in The Snug this year, this bookshelf has a range of titles that are primarily taken from our Liberate My Library list 📚

The books on this list have been purchased on your recommendations to help diversify our collections 🌈 You can browse and borrow any of the books on the bookshelf or check out the Liberate My Library list: https://rl.talis.com/3/durham/lists/03c4973f-bd24-4c50-8230-972acd004189.html

You can also make your own recommendations for books that you would like to see by filling in our Purchase Request form and selecting "Liberate My Library" as the reason for you request 😊

We don’t expect you to know everything about using the Library and there are no silly questions – we want to hear from you so we can help you in any way that we can 😊

👉 Use our 24/7 live chat service to chat with real people (not bots!)
👉 Send us an email
👉 Visit our Help and Information Desk in the Billy B

Our librarians, curators and archivists are here to help you to get the most out of our resources 💜

Visit our Welcome guide to find out more about the different ways to get in touch with us (link in comments 👇).