Open Learning Centre Library services

How to find the Open Learning Centre Library, register and access its catalogue.

Location

The Library of the Open Learning Centre for Languages and Academic English (OLCLAE) is on the north-lower ground floor of the Samuel Alexander Building.

It is most easily accessed via the Main (South) entrance, and is at the far end of the Lime Cafe/Student Hub area.

Library and reception opening hours

  • Semester:    Monday to Friday      9:30am-5:00pm
  • Vacation:     Monday to Friday      9:30am-1:00pm & 2:00pm-5:00pm

Resources and catalogues

The OLCLAE Library stocks a wide variety of resources in text, audio and DVD formats, including more than 4,500 world cinema titles.

Registration

Registration is free, and is open to all staff and students of The University of Manchester - including students attending University language courses for members of the public. Registration forms are available at OLCLAE reception.

Loans and fines

  • All loans are free of charge.
  • All loans are made against staff/student ID cards.
  • There is a loans limit of three titles (a single title may have several components).
  • Loan periods are usually flexible.
  • Some resources are only available from reception. These include:
    • digital recorders
    • headsets
    • external drives for DVD playback
    • specialist keyboards
    • dictionaries for use in exams
  • We do not charge fines on overdue loans. Please help us keep resources available for other Library users by returning your loans on time.
  • If you lose or damage an item you will be invoiced for the full cost of replacing it, and you will be advised on how to pay via the University's online store.
  • Loans can be renewed:

Full details of the cataloguing system and loan policy are in the Library user guide.

Languages

The OLCLAE Library stocks resources in the following languages:

Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bemba, Bengali, Bosnian, British Sign Language (BSL), Bulgarian, Burmese, Cambodian, Cantonese, Catalan, Chinese (Mandarin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, Flemish, French, Fulah, Gaelic (Scottish), Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi/Urdu, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Kurdish, Lakota, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Malay, Maltese, Marathi, Mohawk, Mongolian, Navajo, Norwegian, Panjabi, Passamaquoddy, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Serbo-Croat, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovene, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Taiwanese, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan, Tswa, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Wolof, Yoruba, Yucatec Maya, Zulu