The Library offers a Virtual Reading Room service to enable researchers to make online appointments to consult our Special Collections and Archives remotely. Please provide your institutional context and discuss why you decided to develop Virtual Reading Room (VRR) or Virtual Teaching Space (VTS) services. Following the success of VRR set ups at other institutions SHL was keen to implement something similar as part of its Library Transformation Programme.
One of the goals of this is to establish SHL as a national resource for the arts, humanities. Explore Senate House Library's Virtual Reading Room (VRR) and find out what it can offer to students, academics, library users and members of the public. We will give an introduction to our Virtual Reading Room service and the opportunities to integrate it into your research and teaching.
Step into the future of research with Senate House Library's Virtual Reading Room! 📖 The Virtual Reading Room service enables library members and researchers to make online video appointments. Senate House Library is the home library of the School of Advanced Study and the central library for the University of London. Join Senate House Library to access millions of books and periodicals, electronic resources, beautiful study spaces, free notebook and iPad loans (within the Library), and the option of renting a private study space.
Explore Senate House Library's Virtual Reading Room (VRR) and find out what it can offer to students, academics, library users and members of the public. Find your way around Use the digital wayfinding service MazeMap to help find your way around Senate House and the Library. It covers the lower ground floor to floor 7 of Senate House.
You can use it to find your way to collection areas, reading rooms, group study spaces, lifts and stairs, service points, scanner/printers, the accessibility suite, fire refuge points and toilets. The Special Collections reading room is on the 4th floor of the library and is an invigilated, silent area. Please show consideration for others while using the room.
If you cannot visit the Library in person, we offer a free Virtual Reading Room service for Library members as well as external researchers. An interactive event taking place at Senate House Library and online this week will demonstrate the benefits of the Library's Virtual Reading Room (VRR) to researchers wherever they are in the world. A short video giving a brief history of Senate House Library, showing you round the main heritage reading rooms and exploring the online exhibition that cele.
