The Library’s Reading Room is open to members of the public Monday-Thursday 12-4pm.Visitors can access books and periodicals on the open shelves and digital resources including the Daily Worker 1930-46 and the complete works of Marx & Engels on our Reading Room computer. If you would like to view any of our reserve books and/or archive collections, please book an appointment by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The vast majority of our published material (books and periodicals) is entered on our online catalogue. This can be searched by title, author and subject.We are in the process of including all of our archival collections on the catalogue. This is an on-going process. The subject guides on this page are a useful introduction to the different collections held by the Library. If you have any queries about our collections email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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The Library welcomes donations of books and archives to its collections.If you have material you think might be of interest, please do get in touch with a list of the books and a description of the archives at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. acquisition policy can be downloaded here (ISSUU link).