University Libraries
There are nine Universities in the East Midlands
- Bishop Grosseteste
- De Montfort
- Derby
- Leicester
- Lincoln
- Loughborough
- Northampton
- Nottingham
- Nottingham Trent.
The universities' library services support over 150,000 FTE students and staff and offer almost 12,000 study spaces from 40 library buildings
The region’s university libraries hold over 5 million catalogued items of bookstock, and more than 64,000 periodical titles (many in electronic format)
Each year they issue over 5 million items.
In 2004/5 there were 661 staff working in university libraries in the East Midlands


