The Robert Sainsbury Library is housed within the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts (SCVA) to the southwest of the campus (about a five to ten minute walk from the Main Library and Registry building). It is located alongside the main gallery of SCVA, underneath the ‘East’ Mezzanine (the SIfA postgraduate study area). The nearest entrance within the building is through the department of Art History and World Art Studies (the only entrance outside the gallery opening times).

Floorplan showing how to find the SRU Library from the Art History and World Art Studies entrance

Registered UEA users may borrow on the following basis

Research masters, doctoral students and staff

Up to twenty books may be borrowed with three return dates a year.

Taught masters & diploma students

Up to fifteen items may be borrowed for four weeks. 

Undergraduates & SCVA guides

Up to five books may be borrowed for one week.

Additional needs

Users at UEA with additional learning needs can have enhanced borrowing privileges such as extended loan periods and proxy borrowing.  For students, this must be initiated/applied for through the Dean of Students’ Office at UEA.  Users who delegate to a proxy must provide them with a letter of authorisation.

Short loan titles and Reference/special collections/journals

Short loan titles are items on heavy demand because of teaching requirements.  All users are restricted to a return time of 4pm the next day (or over a weekend if taken out on a Friday).

No loans are permitted for reference works, special collections materials and journals.

For all UEA users, items borrowed may be renewed up to three times (short loan titles and requested items excepted).

External users:

Sconul Access

External users with Sconul Access cards may also borrow from the SRU Library (applications must first be authorised by the Main Library at UEA). Up to five books may be borrowed for four weeks (short loan books not borrowable).

Other external users are welcome to work in the SRU Library and use the collections but for reference only purposes.

The majority of stock is held on open access.  Facilities include a photocopier, an IT area with scanners and printers and study spaces where laptops can also be used.  Staff are available throughout opening times at the issue/enquiry desk to assist with any research query, to explain the organisation of the library collections and help find any material not found on the shelves.

Bags are not allowed in the Library.  Lockers are available in the Sainsbury Centre, Library staff can direct users to these. 

Books are arranged on the shelves in classified order, within a geographical sequence subdivided by subject, progressing from general to more specific topics.  Books are also divided into different sequences by size and form, e.g. Oversize or Pamphlet.  These are all clearly marked on the online catalogues.  The classmark (the location label on the book) consists of one or more letters and then by number and - to distinguish between books on the same subject/classmark - by filing suffix (usually the first three letters of the author's surname).  The plan of the Library shows the broad geographical and size sequences.

A number of less used titles, including back runs of ‘dead’ journal titles and print copies of journals available electronically to UEA users are held in the basement store.  These are marked as store items on the catalogue.  There is a staff fetching services for this material, usually delivered within an hour of any request (lunchtime and late nights being an exception).

The photocopier (b&w only), printers and scanners are not linked to the PrintPlus+ system offered elsewhere on campus to UEA registered users (via credit placed on campus cards). 

Photocopier

A black & white self service photocopier is available alongside the enquiry/issue desk.

The photocopier is not coin or campus card operated. General users enter a code listed alongside the copier, whilst designated users will be assigned a unique code. On completion, users should count the number of copies made and present them to staff for payment at the enquiry/issue desk.

It is the users responsibility to ensure that copyright regulations are adhered to. Library staff will confiscate any material found to be infringing copyright, but users must pay for all copies regardless. There is an advice sheet alongside the copier or ask for advice on copyright regulations from staff. ISD (Information Services Directorate) at UEA provides useful webpages on copyright.

There is no colour photocopier in the SRU Library, the nearest, publically available, colour copier is in the Main Library.  There is a PrintPlus b&w/colour copier in the Art History and World Art Studies communal area available to its staff and students. 

Printing

There are four printers available for public use; two deskjets in the IT Area, one deskjet alongside the quick reference computer in the enquiry/issue desk room and one black & white laserjet alongside the enquiry/issue desk.

As there are a number of printing options; always check to see which printer has been selected as the default. Help sheets on the different print options are provided alongside each computer.

Printers are not coin or campus card operated. On completion, users should count the number of copies made and present them to staff for payment at the enquiry/issue desk.  Registered UEA users can send prints to any PrintPlus+ networked machine to collect later.

Scanners

There are three scanners in the IT Area which can be used to scan text and images into computer files which can be stored in the UEA users central file store or downloaded onto a memory stick or CD.

Help sheets on using the scanners are provided alongside each computer.

There is no charge for use of this facility unless material is then printed in the library.

Templates are available for slide and photographic scanning at the enquiry/issue desk.

SRU Library staff can offer advice and assistance on use of all these facilities.