International Study Centre

International Study Centre 2012/2013

Learning resources and facilities


The University’s excellent teaching reputation is matched by the quality of learning environment. You will have access to high quality resources, facilities and support services to help you in your studies. A recent £32 million investment to refurbish and extend the award winning library is just one example of the University's commitment to investing in teaching and learning facilities.

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Library

The David Wilson Library, a new iconic building at the heart of the campus, combining stunning contemporary design with state-of-the-art technology to provide an inspirational place to study.

The David Wilson Library houses:

  • study spaces for 1,500 students
  • group study rooms
  • a high level of network connectivity, including wireless for mobile computing
  • IT training rooms and seminar rooms
  • Special Collections
  • a bookshop and café
  • the Careers Service and AccessAbility Centre

 

Around £4.5 million a year is spent buying resources for the University Library and providing a wide range of services. The University Library provides access to over a million printed volumes and a digital library of some 18,000 electronic journals, electronic books and databases, accessible via the web, both on campus and also off campus for the majority of resources.

A web portal provides a single point of easy access to electronic sources of information in your subject, and includes the Library’s online catalogue. You can use the catalogue to look for books and journals, to reserve books already on loan to someone else and to renew books you have borrowed. Library electronic resources are also available via Blackboard, the University’s Virtual Learning Environment.

Library staff are committed to helping you make the best use of information resources. They provide information skills training throughout your course, and for each subject there is a designated Information Librarian who is available to give you specialist help.

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Information technology will be a vital aspect of your learning and studying at university. The University of Leicester has over 1,100 computers found in designated user areas in most of the teaching buildings and in the main Library. Access is available overnight and at the weekends via a card access system.

The main computing service makes use of Microsoft's Windows operating system and provides access to Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, Outlook and other specialised software. A Linux service is also available. The Computer Centre operates a help service that students can contact if they have any problems.

You will have secure access to your email at the University from anywhere in the world using a web browser and remote access to your files using secure file transfer will be possible. You will also be given access to Blackboard, the Virtual Learning Environment, which is used by many departments to support online learning and teaching. All of these web-based services an be accessed from the wireless network service which can be connected to from a number of hotspots on campus.

Internet points in every room in University accommodation give you to access the internet, and most of these in the Oadby Student Village provide broadband internet access.