5.2 The Physics Department Library The Physics Department Library is located on the first floor of the Schuster Laboratory. It offers a convenient and pleasant working environment, with seating for 150 students in a study area, and for a further 16 students working at computers. The Department Library provides a short loan collection of recommended text books, a research collection of texts and reference works, current subscriptions to selected periodicals, careers information, and a self-service photocopying facility. In addition, the Departmental Librarian runs, free of charge, a second-hand book shop in which students may sell and buy books. 5.3 New Books New books for the Physics Department Library and the John Rylands University Library are purchased every year.
Students are welcome to make recommendations for purchase.
Students should provide Dr A C Phillips with full bibliographic details, including the ISBN if possible. Unfortunately we cannot guarantee to buy a recommended book. 5.4 Computing Facilities in the Department Suggestions, requests for information and reports of problems with equipment should be directed to the Electronics Workshop. In addition to computers in public clusters at various sites within the University, physics undergraduates have access to about 150 PC's within the department with a variety of operating systems depending on the hardware resources of the machine and their role in teaching. Some reside on a fully separate teaching network, while others allow full access to electronic mail and the internet.