Faculty of English

New MPhils & PhDs! Grad tours are 4pm everyday this week Meet at the library desk, no need to sign-up.

We’re starting our ‘hellos’ nice and early! If you’ve found your way here take a look at our ‘Welcome’ page.

We’re looking for feedback from students to help us improve iDiscover. However you use it, and however much you use it, we’re interested in what you have to say! If you’re in Cambridge on Tuesday 25th of July and have a spare 30 minutes drop-in to the IT Suite between 14:00 – 16:00. The session […]

We’re open 9:30am – 5pm weekdays (last admission 4:40pm). Closed Saturday & Sunday. When the library is closed you can return books via the Sidgbox outside book dropbox.

Get started with Zotero now and save yourself heaps of time and effort at hand-in. Ideal if you’re starting Part II and want a stress-free way to keep track of your dissertation references. Zotero is an app that works in your web-browser to save and store reference information for books, articles, etc. so that you […]

Vacation borrowing has begun!  English & ASNC staff and students may borrow up to 50 books over the vac. Short loans included, DVDs excluded. Normal loan limits apply for students from other faculties.  

Check our guide to ebooks to find out which books from the reading lists are available online.

This week the academics and EFL staff join forces to present the Part I Dissertation Quickstart Workshops. Sign-up online now.  Useful for getting started on thinking about how to approach your dissertation and getting a headstart over the long vac.

Thanks to the feedback from the survey last term we’re working on some changes in the library. A lot of feedback mentioned that the individual desks upstairs are great but that there aren’t enough of them. So we’ve got new desk dividers in one of the ground floor side rooms. Try them out and let […]

We’re open from 8.50am to 9pm Monday-Friday for the next few weeks. Weekend hours are 10am to 6pm.