Use of the journal collection has doubled and students and staff have registered their appreciation through increasing use of the services provided. Students have taken control of their own learning. Students begin with a single integrated web interface to all library collections and services, including library opening hours, staff contacts, branch library layouts and details of facilities and training programmes. From here, they can travel to the local catalogue of on-site holdings of books, journals, videos and other resources. Occasionally textbooks are available in electronic form, for example Harrison s Principles of Internal Medicine .
Students are able to view their own borrowing records and renew their loans.
To gain further knowledge from the journal literature, students can continue their voyage of discovery by searching over 200 locally held databases indexing thousands of journals. Databases indexing the journal literature cover all subject areas. These databases are available via dialup 24 hours a day. Other databases are networked from several netware servers and are accessible from workstations both within the Library and in departments across the University. Students can then find the printed journals on the shelves or use electronic versions.