Q. How many books can I borrow and for how long?

20 items for 4 weeks in term which are auto-renewed unless requested by another customer.

30 items for 4 weeks in term which are auto-renewed unless requested by another customer

Unlimited items issued for 4 weeks and auto-renewed every 4 weeks unless requested by another customer

Unlimited items issued for 4 weeks and auto-renewed unless requested by another customer

See our information for other members.

• Core textbooks or some books on Reading Lists at Liverpool are reference/use in library to allow everyone on a particular course or module has access to at least one copy of that text whilst in the library.
• Items/resources where we only have one copy, or because of the nature of their content eg. law reports, current affairs publications etc.
• Items which cannot be read from cover to cover in the conventional way eg. encyclopaedias, concordances, yearbooks, dictionaries, thesauri and some types of atlases. 
• Books which are particularly rare or have aged greatly. In order to preserve the life of a volume, it is placed on the library circulation system as “Reference Only” (as an example, items in Special Collections and Archives are classed as Reference /Library Use).