Visitors' guide to the Library

Main collection

Most of the books at Collegiate Library belong to the main collection. This is made up of resources to support the courses taught at Collegiate Campus. Due to the large number of books in the library, it is necessary for them to be organised by topic as well as by author so that they can be shelved in the right order and found when they are needed. We use a system called Dewey Decimal Classification.

At Collegiate, all books in the main collection are located on the first floor.

(001-999) Computing, Journalism, Ethics, Philosophy, Psychology,  Religion, Communications, Sociology, Politics, Economics, Education, Social welfare and policy, Social work, Social  welfare and policy, Criminology, National Health Service, Education, Languages and linguistics, Medicine, Sports medicine, Nursing, Sport, Leisure, Writing, Constitutional history   

To locate a book, you will need to know its shelfmark, which can be found in the Library Search results. There is a sign on the end of each set of shelves to tell you the range of books that they hold.

If you can't find something, just ask at the Helpdesk and a member of staff will help you look.

English collection

This is on the ground floor at Collegiate Library.  It includes English language study materials, books on health terminology, and popular fiction. Most books in the collection can be borrowed but some are for reference only.

Women in Science, Engineering and Techology UK Resource Centre (WiSE UKRC) collection

Sheffield Hallam University holds a set of approximately 370 special resources relating to gender, science and technology, and science education. The collection was donated to the University in recognition of its own work (via the WiSET team in Sheffield Institute of Education) when government funding for the UKRC and WISE was withdrawn in 2010.

The collection is within the main collection and can be found by typing WISE UKRC into Library Search.