University Libraries
There are nine Universities in the East Midlands:
- Bishop Grosseteste
- De Montfort
- Derby
- Leicester
- Lincoln
- Loughborough
- Northampton
- Nottingham
- Nottingham Trent
The universities' library services support over 157,000 FTE students and staff and offer 13,000 study spaces from 32 library buildings
The region’s university libraries hold over 5 million catalogued items of bookstock, and more than 111,000 periodical titles (many in electronic format)
Each year they issue nearly 6 million items, and their users are enabled to download over 6 million articles in electronic form
In 2008/9 there were 605 staff working in university libraries in the East Midlands
