Robinson Library Collections
The Robinson Library is the University's main library and is within five minutes' walking distance of the School. The Library:
- is open seven days a week, with 24 hour opening during exam periods.
- has over 1,500 study spaces, including areas for group discussion and silent research.
- has 360 computers connected to the campus network.
- contains over 1,000,000 print books; the largest collection of ebooks in the country; 14,000 journals, and a wide range of specialist online resources, including JISC Historic Books, Literature Online, Linguistics and Language Behaviour Abstracts, the Oxford English Dictionary Online, and newspapers from 1600 to the present day.
- for those studying Film modules, has several hundred feature films from many different countries available for loan.
The Robinson Library accesses a number of linguistics databases, including:
- Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
- Modern Language Association (MLA)
For an overview of the library's resources for English Literature, Language and Linguistics, information about access to libraries and resources elsewhere, advice on getting the best out of the library, and regularly updated news, please visit our library subject guide at http://libguides.ncl.ac.uk/sels.
The Robinson Library holds microform collections in the Microform Research Room, British literary manuscripts 1500-1700, English linguistics 1500-1800.
The Robinson Library also holds multi-volume sets of printed collections of manuscripts and facsimiles such as :
- The Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts
- The Cornell Yeats Manuscript Materials
- Blake's Illuminated Books
- Early English Text Society Publications
- Anti-Jacobin Novels
- Lives of the Great Romantics by their Contemporaries
- Travels, Explorations and Empires 1770-1835