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The Online Library Enquiry Service will be closed from 21st December and will reopen on the 2nd January 2025. During this period we will be unable to answer your enquiries.

The Online Library’s enquiry service has an exciting new addition – an AI-powered chatbot. You can still talk to a librarian in real time by clicking the green ‘Chat with us!’ tab on the Online Library website. But if a librarian is not available to chat, you will talk to our chatbot instead.

This November, in honour of Disability History month, the Online Library is sharing a few interesting and inspiring e-books from our collection that highlight various issues related to disabilities, ableism and how we can better include people with all disabilities in our global community.

This year we celebrate Black History Month by sharing these ten new books we’ve added to brighten your days and inspire your studies…

We are delighted to announce that the University of London has now joined the SCONUL Access scheme to improve UK Library access for distance learning students.

Treat yourself to five minutes of fun with a light and breezy read of our Summer Newsletter.

Here is a list of our recent acquisitions for English.

Due to the global systems outage related to Crowdstrike, some search results in our Summon search engine were not linking to resources, and the A-Z Journals List was unavailable. The Kluwer Law Online and Orbis databases were also not accessible.

Celebrate LGBTQ+ month by viewing a verbose, versatile and vibrant variety of volumes available in the Online Library. Just as “every book has it’s cover”, there is something for every colour of the rainbow.

On the 22nd May, the Online Library had a webinar with students, which included a demonstration of the Online Library, followed by a Question and Answer session.