Library services
We offer a number of services for students, staff and visitors. We can help you to find the items you need, even if they’re not in our libraries, and can support staff with reading lists and teaching.

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Read about our service changes due to the latest lockdown. If you are able to study from home, please stay at home and do not travel to campus.
The Edward Boyle Library is open for click-and-collect and bookable study space. The Laidlaw Library is open for study.
Please use the coronavirus test facility before you use the Library. Find out how to book an asymptomatic test at the University’s Coronavirus website.
Contact us online or use webchat (it appears in the header above when someone is available to chat).
Bookable study space
The Edward Boyle Library and Laidlaw Library are now open for study, with bookable study spaces available for University of Leeds staff and students, and NHS members. If you are able to study from home, please stay at home and do not travel to campus.
Borrowing
Can't find it
If you can’t find the items you need, we can help. You can request items on loan or from our stores as well as from other libraries outside Leeds through Document Supply.
Lecturer support
We help you to submit reading lists and make items available for students, and support teaching through integrated academic skills sessions and resources.
Academic skills in the curriculum
Boost your students' academic skills. Skills@Library can embed discipline-specific and curriculum-based academic skills activities within your teaching.
More on Academic skills in the curriculumReading lists
How to submit your students' reading lists for the year, request digitisation for online course readings, and move popular items to our High Demand Collection.
More on Reading listsWork with Special Collections
Discover how Special Collections support teaching within the University using its diverse collections of rare and historic books and manuscripts.
More on Work with Special CollectionsJoin the library
Information about the different Library membership options and entitlements. Staff and students have full access to Leeds University Library and just need their University ID card.