Information Services and Library for Faculty

Teaching a course this term or next?

You can request a book to be placed in our Course collection (short loan) for a course you are teaching. Please email us at reading.lists@london.edu in plenty of time so that we can ensure we have an appropriate number of books available for your students. Be sure to include the edition you require (if applicable).

Use our Click and Collect service to request a book from our library stock. For Faculty and Staff only, we also offer Click and Deliver. Just check the box towards the end of the form and we will send it to you via the internal mail service. 

It is possible to request materials not held by our Library through:

• Inter-Library Loan (ILL) for books
• Document Supply for journal articles, book chapters as well as copyright cleared items.
   

For further details about these services please see our document supply guide.

If you are ordering for use in Canvas you must let us know when you order and provide a budget code.

Journal or Dataset subscriptions

LBS Faculty and staff can recommend the library purchase journal subscriptions and datasets, or can use the library’s Licensing Services to arrange new subscriptions funded from a departmental or individual faculty budget.

1. Make an initial request by emailing library@london.edu. The library will reply within 5 days and liaise with you over the resource content, pricing and technical issues.
    
2. If after initial investigation the resource is still required then the library will advise on possible sources of funding. This may include the library’s budget where the purchase is in line with the collection statements for journals and datasets outlined in the Library Content Strategy (see box on left).
    
3. If funding from the library budget is sought or recommended then the library will need a completed eResource Request form which will require a short statement of business need from you. It is likely that a request will involve a bid for additional funds; talk to us early and we can help you to build a business case for new subscriptions where funding is required. 
    
4. Approval for the eResource Request is then sought from the budget holder and SA Chair. Larger sums (over 5K) will need also need the approval of the Dean of Faculty. 

Book Purchase Requests

Can be submitted through our Purchase Request Form in the library catalogue.

Training for Faculty
All new members of faculty are sent a welcome message from the library, which invites them to book a session with one of our information specialists to go through our available resources.  However any member of faculty wishing to find out more about a particular database or to look into whether we have certain data available is very welcome to book an appointment.  Please email library@london.edu to make an appointment.

Training for students
We are happy to come and speak to a class about accessing certain types of data / using particular databases. Alternatively we can create short online training content for your class (See an example that was created to help a class of part-time students find company accounts data). Please email library@london.edu and one of our information specialists will be in touch to discuss your requirements.

Training by database vendors
Many of our database vendors are happy to come in and run training sessions either for a class or for individual or small groups of Faculty (for example FactSet, Capital IQ and ThomsonReuters). Please email library@london.edu if you would like us to help you arrange this.

Additionally many of our databases offer online training videos or host webinars that can be signed up for. We regularly advertise forthcoming webinars on our main training pages.