This is one of a series of measures introduced by the University to help support our students and staff through the Cost-of-Living crisis.

Student wellbeing matters to us and our ongoing commitment to delivering exceptional student experience means that we want to support our users in any way that we can during these challenging times. The Library enables users to be active learners by providing access to high quality resources in support of teaching and research. We don’t want anyone to be prevented from accessing the information they need because they cannot pay a library fine.

Libraries normally charge fines to encourage people to return books on time, so that they are widely available for other users to borrow and benefit from them. For this system to continue to work without fines, we need our users to play their part. Please continue to return your books on time, particularly short loan and recalled items that are in high demand by many students.

For further support, please consult the Cost of Living hub on MyQueen’s. It provides advice and support in a range of areas including finances, wellbeing, part-time and casual work, and student discounts.

FAQs

If someone has a book I need to borrow, what’s their incentive to return if there are no fines?

If you have a book on loan that is requested by another user and you don’t return it, you can’t borrow or request any more items until it is returned. We hope this will encourage users to return their books for further circulation to fellow users.

What happens if I lose a book?

Replacement charges will still apply for lost books. You can find out more about that on our Fines and Charges page.

Does this apply to just books, or to everything?

This applies to all standard and short loan items- books, CDs, DVDs and so on. It doesn’t apply to laptop-loans.