Our Facilities

Our teaching and library facilities are modern and regularly updated with the resources you’ll need. You are taught in flexible, technology-enhanced learning rooms equipped with video conferencing equipment, interactive smart boards with all-round ceiling projection and audio-visual cabinets with the usual dvd playback and PC and laptop connections, and video-conferencing facilities.

Our Library
Our Library contains a wide range of electronic databases and archives of digitised facsimiles, including EEBO (Early English Books Online), ECCO (18th Century Collections Online) and 19th Century Periodicals Online. We also have a vast collection of e-books and online journals for you to access through Summon, the University's fast, easy-to-use search engine.

Electronic access to study
We support our students in a number of ways, ensuring that they get the most of what we are offering them. All the modules you take are supported by skills workshops and extensive online resources (with screencasts of lectures, repositories of seminar or lecture handouts, slides, blogs, wikis). And by using our Unilearn facility, all your work is submitted electronically - and is returned to you electronically with full feedback from your lecturers. 

Space to learn
Our library contains over 1000 study spaces, over 500 PCs and Macs, and over 90 laptops available for loan.

The Oastler building is the home of the School of Music, Humanities and Media.

What can you find in the building?

• Collaborative Learning rooms. Bring your own devices to plug in and share your work with others or work on it as a group. If you have a lecture in these rooms be ready for lots of group work and discussion. 

• Social space for work and free time. Socialise with your friends in one of the many seating areas or catch up on your work at pc facilities around the Prow of the Building.

• Staff Offices. Academic Staff, Support staff and Technical services have moved to new offices in the building to offer you support.

Heritage Quay is the information, records management and archive service at the University of Huddersfield. We are your friendly information and records professionals, winning many awards for our services and our approach. For researchers, students, academics and members of the public we act as the official archive for the University, as well as the guardian of the archives of other organisations, families and individuals dating back over 200 years. We specialise in education, British 20th/21st century music, sport, politics, theatre, and art and design, and are freely open to all.

Our 21st-century role is to collect and secure the future of archives, both digital and physical, to preserve them for generations to come, making them as accessible and available as possible.

During 2012-2017 £2million funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund alongside funding from the University of Huddersfield was invested in transforming the service, including the creation of Heritage Quay providing state-of-the-art accommodation for customers and for archives. We hold events in Heritage Quay and elsewhere.  Individual researchers can explore the online catalogue, visit the searchroom to use archives – or if you are unable to visit, use our research and copying services.

Our ‘Big Curvy Screen’ is a dynamic interface that lets you plunge into a fascinating collection of historic material and be able to browse through our collections on a seven-metre-long wall.

The ‘Big Curvy Screen’ is just one part of Heritage Quay, our purpose-built archive collection. Is it a library, museum or way of life? Hard to tell, really, but you’ll find a huge collection of artefacts on music, sport, women’s history, politics, the arts, local industry, education and non-conformity.

Find out more on the Heritage Quay website.