The Hugh Owen Library is the main University Library and the centre of administration for Information Services. Based on Penglais campus [map], it provides a space to study, whether you wish to study quietly on your own or with others. A range of facilities are provided both to help you with your studies and for quiet relaxation.
Hugh Owen Library
Physical Sciences Library
Opening Hours
Hugh Owen Library
Term time: 24/7
Library and IT support is available between 8.30am -10.00pm (Self-service/reference use: 10.00pm-8.30am)
Vacation: 8.30am-5.30pm Monday - Friday
Further opening times are available here.
Physical Sciences Library
The library will be staffed during term-time between 2pm-5pm, Monday to Thursday and 2pm-4.30pm on Friday.
The library is unstaffed outside of these times but access remains to the library books and journals, library spaces, computers and the printer/photocopier/scanner dependent on Physical Science building opening/closing hours.
Further opening times available here.
All University staff and students can borrow up to 40 items at any one time.
You can borrow most items for one week and these will be automatically renewed for you each week until someone else needs the item and requests it, or after 12 months.
You will only be fined if you do not bring the item back when it is recalled by another user, or if you do not return the book to the library after 12 months.
Further information:
https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/is/it-services/printing/
Combined printer/copier/scanners are available in locations across campus. You can log into any of them with either your username and password or Aber Card. You will need to top up your Aber Card with money to print. Printing costs from 2p per side (black and white, A4), and it is free to scan on our printers though you will need some credit on your Aber Card before you start.
See here for a guide on printing.
See here for more information on printing and current charges.
Primo is the Aberystwyth University library catalogue. In Primo you can search for books, articles, theses and other materials in the library collection of printed and electronic resources. To get the best results from Primo, you will need to sign in.
A module reading list is usually a list of books and other information resources compiled by the module co-ordinator to support your study of a module.
You can find the reading list for a module you are studying in Blackboard.
Log in, visit the module and click the Aspire Reading List link in the left menu
You can see your list in the Aspire system where there are additional features:
Click on the title of the Aspire list in Blackboard OR visit Aspire and search for the module code
Find out more about your Aspire Reading Lists.
If you are choosing modules for next year, or you are a prospective student, visit the AU modules pages and on any module page...
click View in Aspire to see a reading list for a current module
click View an example list in Aspire to see an example list for a module being taught in the future
