Visit to the University of Essex Library [TG2v/Essex]

This visit will be taking place in conjunction with a morning visit to the UK Data Archive.
Please book onto this event if you would like to attend the whole day.

The Albert Sloman Library, opened in 1967, is one of the founding buildings of the University of Essex and is named after the university’s first Vice Chancellor. In 2015, a new extension was opened to meet the needs of a growing student population and to provide more tech enabled study spaces along with purpose designed space for postgraduate study and special collections. Since then additional refurbishments of the ground floor lobby and Library Reading Room have further enhanced facilities for library users and have helped facilitate better student engagement and transformed perceptions of the library service across the university. Both the Library extension and the adjacent Silberrad Student Centre were designed by Patel Taylor architects, and the two buildings were jointly awarded the RIBA East Building of the Year award in 2016.

Bookings for visits are free of charge but are open to members of the M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries only.

To reserve a space please use our online booking form.

If subsequent to booking a place on a cpd25 visit you find that you are unable to attend, we ask that you let us know this as soon as possible. Cancellations received less than three working days before the event will be charged a £15 cancellation fee. In the event of a ‘no-show’ on the day, £25 will be charged.