Information for academics

Contacts and liaison

The Librarian with subject responsibility for Sociology is Jez Conolly. Each department in the university also has its own library representative, whose responsibilities are detailed in these Guidelines.

If you are new to the department, please feel free to contact Jez Conolly to arrange a session to discuss how the library can support you, your researches and your students.  You may want to discuss, for example, information literacy sessions for students; or perhaps want some instruction yourself in using a particular database.  Whatever your library needs - run them past us, and we'll see if we can help!

Suggestions for book purchases should be made directly to your Subject Librarian, but requests for new subscriptions to journals or electronic databases should be made via the departmental Library representative. Note that to fund any new subscription it may be necessary to cancel an existing one, so consider this when you make your request.

Subject resources

• The collections page details useful sociology collections in our library system, and advice on using other university libraries and the British Library.

Loan Periods and the A&SSL Short Loan Collection

• The changing loan periods page gives information about how books on high demand from students may be given an appropriate loan period in the Arts & Social Sciences Library; and also describes how academic staff should request books be placed in the Short Loan Collection.

Inter-library loan vouchers

• If you need an item which is not available anywhere in the library system here in print or online, you can use the Inter-library loans Service to obtain it from another library. There is a charge for this service, though you should be able to obtain an Inter-library loan voucher to pay for this from your departmental representative.