As well as access to thousands of books, journals, films, and music the library offers a quiet, comfortable place to study alone or in a group.
Items available in the Quincentenary Library include:
You can explore the library catalogue via Cambridge Libraries. Refine your search to just items held in our library by restricting the location to ‘Jesus College’.
Recommendations or requests
If you can't find an item you need, then you can recommend it for purchase. Please email us and we can look into getting it for you, or fill in the central online form and it will go to the most appropriate library, such as the faculty/departmental library or the University Library.
As well as the materials above the library offers:
If you are a PhD student at Jesus and would like to work as a Library Invigilator, then please contact the library staff. We recruit mainly in the late summer, but we also welcome enquiries throughout the year.
If you have any other questions, please contact the library team either by dropping in to the library office or emailing us.
The library has a Personal Welfare section in the building at classmark PYW. These books cover topics ranging from study help to mental health and may be browsed and borrowed as normal. We welcome suggestions to improve and expand this section. Click on the hyperlinks to browse the study skills and the personal welfare sections of this collection. We also have a small collection of graphic novels.
You may also be interested in the following:
During Easter term, the library has a collection of relaxation aids that are left out in the Garden Room, including colouring books and origami.
In addition to the resources available at Cambridge University Library and the Faculty and Departmental libraries, the University provides some general library help.
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