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The current collection does not fully support the research needs of staff and research students.
There is an interlibrary loan service which supports almost all our community. Students and staff can request for materials not available in any of our Libraries.
Students and staff have access to a number of reciprocal access and borrowing schemes. Researchers can join the SCONUL Research Extra scheme which gives staff and research students access to top UK research universities.

Library and Learning Services will accept only electronic versions of past examination papers which will be made available via the LLS webpage.
Not more than four years of past papers will be kept on the webpage.
Access to the papers can either be restricted for on campus/ and or off campus depending on School’s preference.
Examination papers should be sent electronically to Subject librarians who are responsible for the acquisition and management of resources.
Subject librarians, will, in consultation with lecturers, remove examination papers, which are more than four years old from the Web.

University regulations dictate that students deposit two copies of their PHD/MPhil/ theses to the university.
The LLS will retain such thesis if deposited within the LLC indefinitely.
Other Post graduate theses if deposited in the Library will be retained for five years after which it will be withdrawn and returned to the School.
Exception will be made for some if it’s found to be in very heavy demand.
An example will be Architecture which will be retained for 7 years.
Subject librarians are responsible for the acquisition and management of the theses.
As part of our interlibrary loan service, theses can be obtained for users from the British Library.

Library and Learning Services will accept, and should be sent only those undergraduate dissertations which lecturers consider to be of outstanding merit.
These will be retained by the Library for a maximum of five years, after which they will be discarded.
In cases of heavy usage, the Library will consider retaining the dissertation for longer than five years.
Subject librarians are responsible for the acquisition and management of the dissertations.