How to reserve books from the Learning Resource Centre (Library).

How can I reserve a book(s) from the Learning Resource Centre (Library)?

At the moment you are not be able to browse any of the bookshelves in the Learning Resource Centre (Library). If you would like to borrow a book from the library you can reserve a book(s) by using our ‘Click and Collect’ or ‘Select and Collect’ services. 

Click and Collect

Choose Click and Collect if you know which book you would like to order.

To Click and Collect, you will need a pin number, please email the Learning Resource Centre (Library) team, lrc@peterborough.ac.uk if you need to set up a pin number or if your pin needs resetting. Use the Learning Resource Centre (Library), catalogue to reserve a book. 

Select and Collect

Select and Collect can be used when you would like to request a selection of books around a subject, genre, or author.

To place an order, please use our online form. We will use the information that you provide to choose a selection of books.

How can I access the Library Catalogue and Select & Collect Reservation form? 

Peterborough College Students please use the links via the Student Intranet Learning Resource Centre (Library) webpages.

University Centre Peterborough students please use the Library links via your reading lists.

There are also useful guides in the LRC Google Classroom that will show you step by step instructions how to reserve a book.

 

What should I read next?

If you would like ideas about what to read next Peterborough College students can view our NEW online library displays via the Student Intranet, Learning Resource (Library) webpages, this month we have been featuring our Black History Month display, next month we will be promoting our Dare to be scared, Movember and Remembrance displays. 

If you would like to read any of the books featured in the displays either email lrc@peterborough.ac.uk or reserve the book(s) that you would like to read through Click and Collect. 

Dare to be scared

Movember

Remembrance

How can I contact the Learning Resource Centre (Library) Team?

If you need any help or assistance from the Learning Resource Centre (Library) Team please email lrc@peterborough.ac.uk or contact the team Monday - Wednesday, 12pm - 2pm via LRC Google Chat.

Black History Month in the Learning Resource Centre, (Library)

 Black History Month

The month of October is Black History Month in the UK. Black History Month provides an opportunity not only to celebrate achievements but also offers a chance to raise awareness of the events from history and identifying lessons which can be learned from the past. 

In the Learning, Resource Centre, (Library), we are celebrating though a display of fantastic fiction and non-fiction books which are available to borrow from the library.

Black History Month Display in the Learning, Resource Centre, (Library).

At this time you cannot browse books in the Learning Resource Centre, (Library), you can request books. If you are a student at Peterborough College or University Centre Peterborough and you would like to read one of the books on our Black History Month display, please email: lrc@peterborough.ac.uk letting us know which book(s) you would like to borrow.

Books on display

Half of a yellow sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 

Natives Race & Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala

Noughts & Crosses series by Malorie Blackman

Clear light of day by Anita Desai 

Why I'm no longer talking to white people about race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

Love in a headscarf by Shelina Zahra Janmohamed 

Buffalo Soldier by Tanya Landman

Small Island by Andrea Levy

Long walk to freedom by Nelson Mandela

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

12 years a slave by Solomon Northup

Becoming by Michelle Obama

The god of small things by Arundhati Roy

The boy with the topknot by Sathnam Sanghera

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Anita and Me by Meera Syal

The hate u give by Angie Thomas

Face by Benjamin Zephaniah

#BlackHistoryMonth