News

If you're about to graduate, huge congratulations! Please remember your peers still need to use the books, so get any you've borrowed back to the library soon.

The Morrell Library entrance area will be redeveloped over the Summer, as part of the University’s long term investment in campus infrastructure. The refurbishment will provide more study spaces and a more welcoming, modern look and feel. This post will tell you all you need to know about what will happen when and how it will affect library services.

The main library is open 24 hours a day for the four weeks of the exam period. But 24/7 opening doesn't mean 24/7 studying!

As you work on your dissertation, project or other assignments this semester, you’ll want to make best use of the library’s wide range of resources. The tips below suggest useful tools, strategies and resources to enable you to find the literature you need as efficiently as possible.

The Library makes many past papers available via YorSearch to help you prepare for exams; 15 departments have shared their past papers with us.

To support exam preparation and revision, we are now open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, from 8am on Monday 5 January until we close at midnight on 1 February.

Here’s an overview of what happens in the library over December and January, and how it affects you. The headlines are: the library is closed on December 25th, 26th and 31st but otherwise open as normal over vacation! More detailed info below, in chronological order.

Between December and the end of February 2026 we’ll be making some improvements to our lighting across the Morrell Library as part of the University’s sustainability agenda.