We welcome visitors to both The Sir Michael Cobham Library at Talbot Campus and to Weston Library which is on the ground floor of Bournemouth Gateway Building at Lansdowne Campus. If you’re not already an external member of the library, you are welcome to come in to look around or join - but please contact us in advance to let us know.
If you live in the BH postcode area you can apply for reference membership, which allows members of the public to use study space in the library and our printed resources - available to look up on mySearch.
We also offer various other external membership schemes which allow registered members to borrow books.
Please note that reference members and most external members are only allowed to use our Talbot campus library.
We are unable to grant access to university computers or printers and photocopiers. Also please note that there is no access to our e-resources due to the terms of our licence agreements with suppliers.
However, if you wish to connect to the internet for other purposes, using your own device, free Wi-Fi access is available via a partnership with a third party supplier, The Cloud. This commercial wireless solution is only recommended for limited internet usage such as email and browsing.
Alternatively, if you are from an educational institution which participates in eduroam, you can connect your laptop to the eduroam network from wireless access points at both campuses. More detail on wireless networks for visitors.
Please note that no animals may be brought into the libraries apart from registered assistance dogs.