Postgraduate Prospectus

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Student life
We provide an environment which caters for all our
students with outstanding resources and facilities,
award-winning accommodation, an active Students’
Union, sport and the arts.
Library
Our Albert Sloman Library (ASL) is
just a few minutes’ walk from teaching
buildings and student residences at
our Colchester Campus.
With holdings amounting to over one
million books, periodical issues and
microfilms, including 8,000 current
periodicals, our ASL is a major resource.
Students at our Southend Campus can
visit or borrow books via a daily dispatch
service. In addition, our Southend Campus
students have access to the library at
South Essex College, our partner
institution at Southend.
ASL holdings are strong in all subjects
in which we have academic programmes
and, in some areas, (Latin America, Russia
and Eastern Europe) are of national
significance. Holdings are chosen to
support teaching and research but also
include books of general or leisure interest.
Extra copies of heavy demand books
(like set texts) are available in a short loan
collection and you can check the location
of books on our online catalogue.
Our ASL provides ideal conditions for
quiet study with 1,070 reader places.
In addition, 110 networked PCs and
terminals provide access to over 47,000
online journals, databases, e-books and
library catalogues at: libwww.essex.ac.uk.
Viewing facilities for DVDs and videos are
available. Special collections of archives
concentrate on contemporary material,
for example the papers of the Social
Democrat Party (SDP), QUALIDATA and
the Boundary Commission for England
and Wales. Recent additions include
extensive papers relating to the work of
Sigmund Freud, the historical collection
of the Royal Statistical Society Library
and the Library of the Essex Society for
Archaeology and History.
Our ASL has long opening hours, a total
of 84 hours over seven days a week during
term and 42.5 to 84 hours in vacations.
A reading room provides overnight study
and IT facilities during much of the year.
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