Last updated | 17th April 2019 |
Name of library | Durham University Library |
Address | Stockton Road, Durham, DH1 3LY |
Telephone | 0191 334 3042 |
Fax | 0191 334 2971 |
main.library@durham.ac.uk | |
Website | http://www.dur.ac.uk/library/ |
Alternative names | Bill Bryson Library; Palace Green Library |
Contact & Job Title | Christine Purcell. Academic Liaison Librarian |
Purpose & main user community of the library | To Support Teaching and Research in Durham University |
Terms of access | Bona fide researchers may use the library. Regular external users need to register. Visitors may register as readers or borrowers (at a charge).
Staff and students from around 180 university and higher education institutions in the UK and Ireland may use our libraries as SCONUL Access visitors |
Opening hours | Bill Bryson Library termtime hours M-F 08:30 to midnight. Different times at weekends and during university vacation. See website for details.
Palace Green Library search room M-F 09:00 – 17:00. Exhibitions open at weekends also. See website for details |
Disabled access | Full disabled access at Bill Bryson Library. Palace Green Library has been adapted wherever possible for wheelchair access. See access information for visitors |
Lending to other libraries & visitors | Borrowing rights for external users costs £56 for 6 months, £88 for 12 months. We are also part of the UK Inter Library Loan scheme. |
Number of volumes | Theology – ca 50,000 (excluding special collections) |
Periodicals – Back Issues | 300 |
Current Periodicals | 130, mainly online |
Other materials | Some CDs of sacred music. Extensive archives and Special Collections at Palace Green Library |
Volumes added per year | Theology – ca 1000 |
Coverage | Biblical Studies, Patristics, Judaism and Asian religions, Dogmatic and Systematic Theology, Philosophy of Religion, Christian Ethics, Liturgy, Sociology of Religion and Church History. Also Early Christian Art and Archaeology. Special Collections are strong in 17th century controversial writings, Hymnology, and Quakers. |
Special Collections | Pratt Green Collection of Hymnology (ca 3,000 items), Sunderland Society of Friends (ca 880 books by and about Quakers), Cremation Society Archive, Bishop Cosin’s Library includes much 16th and 17th Century theology, Routh Collection and others also include theology |
Manuscripts | Durham Priory and, Post-Dissolution, Cathedral records. Diocesan and Episcopal records, chiefly 18th – 20th Century. See website for more information. |
Research resource | Hymnology, Old Testament studies, Judaism, Society of Friends, Early Christian art and archaeology, 17th Century materials. |
Catalogue Type | online |
URL of catalogue | http://library.dur.ac.uk/ |
Other facilities | Photocopying, scanning, limited visitor internet access |
Full Time Staff | 150 full and part-time |
Part Time Staff | |
Voluntary Staff | |
Changes in next five years affecting the above | |
Anything else about the library | With Durham Cathedral Library and Ushaw Library we are part of the Durham Residential Research Library |