The University Library is one of the three main research libraries in England (others being the British Library and the Bodleian Library. Oxford). It is entitled to recci w n copy of all British publications in accordance with the provision of the Act, and purchases books from abroad on an extensive scale. From its stock of over su million volumes, held in the main building and its three dependent libraries, it is able in supply the research needs of most Graduate Students. The four dependent in the Scientific Periodicals Library, the Squire Law Library, the Belly and Guidon Moore Library and the Medical Library at Addenbrooke’s. Items not available m I he Library may be requested on inter-library loan and the Library is always ready to consuii-i purchasing important items from abroad if they arc recommended. The Library administers the Cambridge Union Catalogue of Books and the Cambridge Unhtn List of Serials. The former comprises the catalogue of the University Library accessions published from January 1978 and a partial catalogue of material published 1978 along with the catalogues of over ninety departmental and college libraries who have so far joined the union catalogue project. The Cambridge Union List of current and non-current serials and series in all libraries of the Univrivitv Theie catalogues are available on-line twenty four hours per day at any k-niimul United to the University Data Network. Both Union Catalogue.

CAMBRIDGE-MIT INSTITUTE

The Judge Institute of Management Studies, Trumpington Street, Cambridge,

CB2 UG

Cambridge University and Ihe Massachusettes Institute of Technology have formed a major strategic alliance, the Cambridge-MIT Institute, to advance learning and research through joint projects and innovative teaching programmes. Both institutions are internationally recognised for their academic and entrepreneurial strengths and the CM1 aims to allow both universities to develop their research and teaching and to encourage spin-off technologies. It is funded by industry and the UK Government. At the time of going to press joint courses have not yet been initiated but the potential of the CMI to transform both research and taught courses in science/technology and humanities areas such as history is such that interested applicants should contact CMI direct to check on the latest developments.

Organisation  of graduate students

Each Graduate Student works in an institution under the overview of a Degree Committee covering a range of cognate subjects. Degree Committees are responsible for a number of processes of importance to Graduate Students such as appointing Ph.D. and M.Phil. Examiners, agreeing dissertation and thesis titles and recommending students to the Board of Graduate Studies for the award of Degrees.

Degree Committees are themselves grouped into five Schools: Arts and Humanities. Humanities and Social Sciences, Biological Sciences, Physical Sciences and the School of Technology. The next five sections of this Prospectus set out all the research facilities and M.Phil., Diploma and Certificate opportunities in each Faculty and Department. Faculties and Departments are listed alphabetically within their School and Degree Committee.

An introduction to the Library on videotape is available for new readers on application at the issue desk. This is also shown at the presentations to new readers given by Library staff at the beginning of October each year. Each reader is given a leaflet Introduction to the Library which is intended to assist new users to find their way around what is inevitably a large and complicated building. This leaflet forms part of a loose-leaf Renders’ Hand book and other leaflets in the series can be collected in a ring-binder available at the Library.

Admission is by ticket, upon application to the Admissions Office at the Library.

Graduate Students should enquire at the desk in the Reading Room or the Catalogue Room if they require help in using the Library or in tracing any material they need.

The Library makes a greal deal of information about its stock and services available or its World-Wide-Web pages,

BETTY AND GORDON MOORE LIBRARY

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 OWD

Scheduled to open in October 2001 the Betty and Gordon Moore Library (BGML) is a new research library covering the physical sciences, technology and pure and applied mathematics. As a branch of the Cambridge University Library together with the SPL (see below) the BGML will provide access lo and support for a full range of scientific print and electronic services.

SCIENTIFIC PERIODICALS LIBRARY Bene’t Street, Cambridge, CB2 3PY

The Scientific Periodicals Library (SPL) was founded as the library of the Cambridge Philosophical Society in the early nineteenth century becoming a branch of the University Library in 1976. The SPL will, on the opening of the Betty and Gordon Moore Library, be given specific responsibility for the biological, chemical, earth and environmental sciences and will be provisionally renamed the Central Site Science Library (CSSL) (10 p.m. during the Easter Full Term), Saturdays 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Reading rooms open at 9.30 a.m. There is no admission to the Library during lhe) last quarter of an hour before closing. The Library is closed on Christmas Eve and the following days up to and including the New Year public holiday and on Good Friday and the three following days, it is also closed on the Summer Bank Holiday and annually for one week in mid-September for stocktaking.