It was set up to meet the particular needs of students on the Housing Studies Programme , and has now become a useful and convenient facility for the staff of the department. The service it provides is mainly short term lending, but there is also a considerable amount of reference material, student dissertations, projects and official publications available for consultation. The stock covers a wide range of material on housing and urban issues, providing an additional service to the Glasgow University Library . The catalogue can be searched using a PC terminal linked to the Main Library and the Internet. The facility is available for the postgraduate students and staff of the Department of Urban Studies.
Visitors are welcome to use it but only for consultation.
There are two members of staff associated with the Resource Centre. Kirsty Neilson who is qualified in information and library studies is the manager and is responsible for ordering and cataloguing the stock and maintaining the issue system. Julie McKinven is the assistant. Both are able to answer queries from users.