• Support from the Philosophy Library team: we are available during opening hours to support you onsite or remotely throughout the year.  Contact us with your questions or queries.  Current University members are also welcome to contact us to arrange in-person or online appointments to provide one-to-one support for referencing, literature searching or anything else you may need.  

• Browsing, borrowing and study space: current members of the University are automatically registered to borrow from this library and are very welcome to work in the library. See our borrowing from the library page for further details.

• Access to Electronic Legal Deposit material: current members of the University can use the terminal in the computing area to view and print (subject to copyright limits) Electronic Legal Deposit material that is not otherwise currently available online.  Please note this service is currently unavailable due to the British Library cyber attack in October 2023. See the Electronic Legal Deposit LibGuide for updates.

• Scans and printouts of printed material: subject to copyright permissions and limits, we may be able to make readings available to current Philosophy students via Moodle.  Current members of the University can also use the University Library's scan and deliver service to request extracts from print and Electronic Legal Deposit material be sent to them via email or post. 
• Inter-library loans: current members of the university can use the University Library's inter-library loans service to request print material not currently held by Cambridge University Libraries from other libraries.  They can also use the rapid inter-library loans service to request PDFs of ebook chapters and ejournal articles only held by other libraries be emailed to them within 24 hours.

• Book returns: books can be returned in the library.  When the library is closed, please return them using the drop box next to Lady Mitchell Hall and we will take them off your account the following working day.  If you have any difficulties returning your Philosophy Library books please contact us and we will do our very best to help.  See the book returns page of the Cambridge University Library website for more information, including details of postal options.  

• Book recommendations, Phil the Gap!: please continue to send us your book recommendations, including for our Academic Skills, Philosophical Fiction, Biography and Wellbeing collections, by contacting us with the details or completing our online form.

Further information about Cambridge University Library Services

Details of services available from the University Library and other Faculty and Department Libraries are available from the Cambridge University Library website.