Library & resources
Our college library is open to all Hertford students 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We have a constantly-expanding collection of resources, from novels and textbooks to scholarly journals and reference material.
The college library is a study space as well as a learning resource, offering plenty of desks across two reading rooms, with Wi-Fi throughout, and a desktop computer and printer for students to use. Unlike many of the central University libraries, you can borrow books from the college library, with generous two-week loans for undergraduates and four-week loans for graduate students.
As well as our day-to-day study resources, we also have an antiquarian collection of around 5,000 rare books which are used for teaching and research. You can find out more about this collection on the Rare books and Treasures of our collection pages.
Alice Roques, our Librarian, is on hand to help you track down items on reading lists, use online resources, access other libraries across Oxford, and reference material correctly in your written work – just let her know if you need help. At Hertford, we also have a dedicated Academic Skills Fellow who supports undergraduates with the academic side of university life. Dr Catherine Sloan can help with managing workload, note-taking skills, and reading and writing skills. University study can be very different to learning in school, so Catherine can help you manage that transition.
If you have any questions about using the library and our resources, such as the adjustments we can make for readers with disabilities, please get in touch and we’ll do our best to help. You can discover more about the Library, including our policies and layout, by accessing our LibGuide.
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