welcome to edinburgh university library’s main library

Welcome to Edinburgh University

Library’s

Main Library

Virtual Tour

The Main Library is in

George Square.

Main Library

There are 12 other libraries you can use too

Getting In

Get through the entrance turnstiles by swiping your library

card.

Don’t forget to bring it!

Finding your way around

Video screens advise on opening hours, computer availability and library news.

There is a Floor Guide near the entrance and

on each floor.

Self-Service

Self-issue is available on the ground, 2nd, 3rd

and 4th floor.

There are easy to use self-service

machines for borrowing and

returning books.

Information Services (IS) Helpdesk

Get general advice on all IS Services from staff at the IS Helpdesk.

Lending Stock

The Main Library has over 800,000 books. Most are arranged by Library of Congress classification (eg HA29 Car) and are

shelved on the 2nd and 3rd floors.

Some older books are shelved on the 4th floor

arranged by Dewey Decimal classification

(eg 712(28)).

Journals are also on the 4th floor.

High Use Book Collection (HUB)

The HUB is on the ground floor and includes the most

popular books, often reading list titles.

Borrow books in the HUB by using the

self-issue machines.

Current print journals

Some of the newly bought printed

books and latest editions/issues of

printed newspapers and

journals are displayed on the

1st floor.

You have access to over 30,000 online journals.

There are a variety of informal and

conversational study space on the ground

and 1st floor.

Group Study Facilities

Including 29 group study pods.

Note that some are designated as Quiet Study areas.

Individual Study Space

Individual study space is available throughout

the library.

There is a Postgraduate study area on the 5th floor.

Wireless access is available throughout

the building if you wish to bring your

own laptop.

Computing facilities

There are over 500 open-access PCs in

the library.

uCreate

uCreate, on the 1st floor, provides multimedia and specialist IT facilities on

a self-service basis.

Make podcasts, print posters, and use a

variety of multimedia facilities.

Photocopying and Printing Copying and printing areas are available

throughout the building.

Top up your credit online or at machines on the ground floor.

Staff and students, pay by debiting your

Print Accounts.

Centre for Research Collections (CRC)

CRC, on the 6th floor, is the gateway to accessing the historic collections of rare books, manuscripts, archives, fine art and

museum objects. 

Student Services

Visit the Careers Service on the 3rd floor.

The Student Counselling

and Student Disability

Services are also on the 3rd floor.

Library Café

Have a break from studying in the Library Café,

on the ground floor.

Good luck,enjoy your course…

Edinburgh University Library

Main Library – Virtual Tour

... and have fun!