The Library Services team collects feedback on its spaces, services, support and resources throughout the year. You may have been to one of our previous Shape Our Library feedback events, written a letter to the library at our themed Halloween or Valentine’s Day activities, used our website feedback form or spoken to a member of the library team. Over the summer and the forthcoming academic year. we’re looking at making improvements across the library at Augustine House based on your feedback.

If you’d like to talk to Library staff about the upcoming changes, we’ll be holding some special Shape Our Library events on the ground floor of Augustine House:

• Thursday 30 April
• Tuesday 5 May
• Wednesday 13 May

You’ll find us opposite the atrium cafe. Drop by at anytime between 11:00 – 15:00 to take a look at floor plans, talk to staff, suggest titles for our new collection of relaxing reads or get creative and help us design our family room. There’s lots to find out and feedback on.

Let’s have a look at some of the upcoming changes and come along to the Shape Our Library event to find out more.

New silent zone

For students who like to study in a silent zone, you have let us know the third-floor silent zone is often disturbed by the neighbouring lecture theatre which can be used for teaching and events. We are creating a new silent zone on the third floor on the opposite side of the building. You may have already seen staff busy in this space relocating stock as we plan to build new partition walls to minimise noise and disturbance and make the silent zone as effective as possible.

New postgraduate study area

As we’ve previously announced we are currently working on improving the Postgraduate study area and planning to relocate it to the second floor of Augustine House. We are interested in speaking to Postgraduate students about improving the space before we relocate it during the summer. You can let us know your availability or book on an upcoming session through this form.

New group and individual study spaces

We have had regular feedback stating that there are insufficient group and individual study rooms. Over the summer we are building new ones on the first floor of Augustine House in the alcoves between the existing group study rooms with the aim to add one large group study room and two small group study rooms to the floor. We are also working to provide two new individual study rooms on the ground floor of Augustine House.

We’re also looking at more furniture options to provide group study options by adding more sofa booths like those on the ground floor and a new boardroom style setup on the first floor. We are also adding three more individual study pods.

Family Room

Many of our students are parents and some have asked for somewhere they can comfortably study alongside their children. We are working on the creation of a family room on the ground floor of Augustine House. A safe space where parents can study whilst their children can access a small range of books, toys and other resources.

A new book collection focusing on relaxation and personal development

We are curating a collection comprised of fiction and non-fiction for leisure reading and personal development. The collection will be held on the ground floor and will be furnished for a more relaxing cosy vibe. You can suggest titles for this collection by adding a comment to this blog or using our suggestion tree in the library.   

And much more…

We are also looking at many more of your suggestions; making height adjustable desks easier to locate in the building, introducing more plants and greenery into the space and improving the furniture found in the group study rooms.

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Some of the building works will be disruptive, so you can keep up to date with what is happening when via the digital screen on the ground floor or our Augustine House updates page.