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Library stock & layout
Ground Floor
- Computer catalogues - to search the Newton catalogue
- Issue Desk
- Borrowing, returning & renewing books
- General enquiries
- Temporary Reference collection
- Journal issues for the current year
- Any Available on Request & Reference Archive items
Lower Ground Floor
- Main book stock (white labels), educational resources (yellow labels) and subject magazines (green labels)
- Children's Fiction collection (blue/silver/orange/grey labels)
- Reference collection (green labels)
- Most recent issue of current journals
- Study areas (including quiet study at far end of Library)
- Computers for bibliographic research and the Newton Catalogue
- Photocopier (located in Current Journals area)
Lily Pad 1
- Bound journals (previous to current year)
- Study areas
Lily Pad 2
- Photocopier
- Study areas
- Pamphlets (e.g. P1234)
- Computers for bibliographic research and the Newton Catalogue
- Video and DVD players
Library stock
The curriculum subject areas of the Library, for example mathematics (510), are divided into the general teaching of the subject (510/7), primary level (510/72), followed by secondary level (510/73).
All types of material on a subject are brought together in one area but in different coloured sequences. White-labelled books are shelved first, followed by yellow and then green. Green-labelled items are usually magazines. Items labelled in yellow are indicated on the Newton Catalogue by the term Educational Resource in the Location line above the classmark.
| White labels | Theoretical texts |
|---|---|
| Yellow labels | Educational resource material |
| Green labels | Reference use only |
| Blue labels | Children's books |