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Bloomsbury Learning Environment (BLE) / Blackboard

• Get access to online learning materials, communication with students on Blackboard courses through discussion boards, online assessment and many other features.
• How to login and get started
• Login to the Bloomsbury Learning Environment (BLE)

Birkbeck Library

• Birkbeck Library resources for English studies
• Birkbeck Library resources for Renaissance studies
• Birkbeck Library resources for Victorian studies
• Library opening hours
• Search for a book or print journal
• Ejournals for the arts and humanities
• Other libraries you can use
• Follow the library on Facebook, Birkbeck Library blogs and Twitter'
• Contacts in the library

Department of English and Humanities' library

• You can borrow from the Department of English and Humanities library, which has an excellent and continually expanding collection of literary reference books and essential texts.
• Ask our course contacts about borrowing arrangements.

Other libraries you can use

• University of London library: you will find this library on the fourth floor of Senate House, next door to Birkbeck. This is one of the best university libraries in the UK, and we are very fortunate in having such immediate access to it. As the principal library resource serving the whole university, this is an extremely comprehensive collection, with outstanding provision for Humanities and a very wide range of periodicals.
• British Library: National collection in the humanities, sciences and social sciences - reference only.
• Other libraries you will be able to access.

Learning support in the department

• Learning support and skills training offered by the Department
• Contact Dr Fleur Rothschild, our Study Skills and Learning Support Adviser

Reading and seminar groups

• We provide seminar rooms, funding (currently £250 annually) and advice for a wide range of student-led reading and seminar groups.
• If you want to talk to someone about applying for this funding, please get in touch with our course contacts.

Other student support at Birkbeck

• Career services
• Computing and IT support at Birkbeck
• Counselling service
• Disability and dyslexia support
• Evening nursery
• Financial support
• Learning support and skills training offered by Birkbeck

Information related to your courses

• Certificates and short courses
• Undergraduate courses
• Postgraduate courses
• MPhil/PhD students
• Attendance requirements for taught students
• Coversheets for coursework submission
• Research ethics