Our WellBEEing Week returns this year from Monday 2 December - Friday 6 December to help support your wellbeing and spread a little festive cheer as we head towards the winter vacation.

Would you like to help someone in need this Christmas? Help us to support three local charities by donating to our Christmas Wish Tree campaign.

You can now access our latest digital leisure reading and wellbeing collections for free through Libby!

We know not everyone will have the chance to visit us during Welcome Week, and there’s a lot to take in at the start of term. With that in mind, we’ve developed various sessions that will be running throughout Michaelmas and Epiphany terms as part of our ongoing welcome support.

This academic year, Bill Bryson Library will be open 24/7 during our busiest periods throughout term time.

As of Saturday 22 June, we enter the University vacation period and will be adjusting our opening times at some of our study spaces.

Our book giveaway is back once more for Pride Month! Following recommendations made by Durham staff and students, new copies of selected titles will be wrapped and hidden in Bill Bryson Library. If you find one, it’s yours to either keep or to read and pass on to someone else.

As we approach the end of exam and assessment period, there will be changes to some of our study spaces and opening times.

Our Chat With Us sessions at Bill Bryson Library are back once again for Easter term!

Due to essential works, there will be a period of restricted access to some areas of Palace Green Library throughout April and May.

As we head towards the end of Epiphany term, we’ll be updating the opening times at some of our libraries and study spaces for the vacation period.

As part of the Global Week 2024 programme of activities, the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Unit and the University Library and Collections (ULC) Department will be running a Human Library, which is designed to build a positive interaction and safe space for conversation between readers and a ‘human book’.