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Cambridge Libraries

 
Address: Silver Street, Cambridge, CB3 9ET
Telephone: (3)35549/50
Email: library@queens.cam.ac.uk
Web: https://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/teaching-learning/library
Instagram: WML (Student Library) - @queens_studentlib (WML Student Library) / - @queenslibcam (Old Library)
X (formerly Twitter): https://twitter.com/Queens_Lib
Blog: http://queenslib.wordpress.com/
Online Catalogue: iDiscover
Location map: University Map
Staff: Fellow Librarian: Dr Tim Eggington
Library Assistant: Lise Field
College Archivist: Noemi Ortega-Raventos
Reader Services Librarian: Sam Percival
Special Collections Librarian: Aya Van Renterghem
Rare Books Curator: Emma Sibbald
Graduate Library Trainee: Jess Small
Admits: The student library is open to all college members and others on request. The Old Library admits all who have a research need.
Stock: 35,000 books in subjects relating to all undergraduate tripos subjects and some taught masters courses.
Special collections: Built in 1448 Queens' Old Library contains c40,000 titles dating from the 15th to 19th centuries. Includes 22 Western mss and 13 oriental mss as well as the library of Thomas Smith, Elizabethan statesman and humanist.
Services: Lapwing/Eduroam wireless access enables portable computers to be used in the library. We also have photocopying/Scanning facilities and offer a comb binding service for student dissertations.
Opening hours: Term: Mon-Sun 7am to 2am
 
Easter Term: Mon-Sun 7am to 3am
 
Vacation: Mon-Sun 7am to 2am

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