The Ward Library

The Ward Library is the working library of Peterhouse.

Use of the Library is strictly confined to members of the College.

Access to the Library on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. is through the main entrance off Little St Mary's Lane. At evenings and weekends access is through the side entrance behind Fen Court. The University card is required to open either door.

Catalogue

The Ward Library on-line catalogue is now held within a secure area of the website, available here.

To access this area you will require a username and password, normally your CRSid - the part of your email address preceding the @cam.ac.uk - and your regular Raven password.

Hours of Opening

Full Term:

Daily 9 a.m. to midnight 

Term (outside Full Term):

Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Vacation:

Vacation opening hours will be posted here.

Staff

The Ward Librarian is Mr Martin Golding.

The Assistant Librarian is Ms Erica McDonald; the Library Assistant is Mrs Emily Grayton.  They will both be in attendance from Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.  At all other times in Term when the Main Library is open, it will be staffed by an undergraduate or graduate assistant.

The Chief Undergraduate Assistant is currently Pradeepa Sivasanthiran.

To make contact with the Library, email lib@pet.cam.ac.uk or telephone (01223) 338218.

Library Guide

Book Information

IT/DVD Information

FAQs

Suggestions

The Ward Librarian, Mr Martin Golding, is always happy to discuss with readers any aspect of the Library's provision and of its working arrangements. Junior Members can get in touch with him either in the Library or by appointment in his rooms.

Library Rules

1. All books on open shelves may be borrowed except Reference books, Periodicals (both bound and unbound), and any other work on which it is stated that it is not to be taken out.  Junior Members may read works in the Reserve collections on application to the Librarian.
2. All books must be issued on the computer, using the University card, and shown at the Control Desk on leaving the Library.   Any reader who removes a book without issuing it will be fined £20.
3. Junior Members may have out up to five volumes altogether at any one time.  They may keep them for up to two weeks or until the end of Full Term, whichever is the shorter period.  All returned books must be handed to the Control Desk to be discharged before being re-shelved by the borrower.   Books may be renewed only once by the same reader.
4. Up to ten volumes may be borrowed for vacation reading.  Books may be taken out for this purpose from the Wednesday before the end of Full Term.  All books borrowed for the vacation must be returned by, at the latest, the second day of next Full Term.   They must also be returned before any new borrowing is permitted.
5. A reader who wishes to consult a book which has already been borrowed may ask the Assistant Librarian to recall it.  A book will not be recalled until the borrower has had it out for seven days.  Once a recall notice has been received, the book must be returned within twenty-four hours.
6. Readers are asked to return to its shelf any book for which they have no further use.  They are also asked to remove their possessions from the tables at the end of each day.
7. Readers who have overdue books in their possession are not permitted to make further borrowings until they have returned the overdue books.
8. Readers’ coats, bags, including laptop bags, and umbrellas must be deposited in the cloakroom by the main entrance.
9. It is forbidden to mark any library book, even in pencil.  Bottles of ink must not be brought into the Library: a supply of ink is available at the Control Desk.
10. Smoking is prohibited.  Food and drink, including bottled water, must not be brought into the Library.  Mobile telephones must not be used in the Library: users will be fined.

These rules are intended for the convenience of all the Library’s users.  Anybody who breaks them should expect to be fined or, in certain cases, forbidden the use of the Library.

The University Library

The University Library is one of the UK’s libraries of legal deposit, alongside the Bodleian in Oxford, the British Library, and the National Libraries of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.  This means that it may request that a copy of every book published in the UK be deposited there.  Some foreign publications are also taken, but this is subject to policy, which may change from time to time.

All current students of the University have right of access to the University Library and have borrowing rights.  Access to the University Library is by University Card.

The University Library offers a programme of introduction and orientation to its facilities.

The Cambridge Libraries Gateway provides links to many useful websites.