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Help and Enquiries

Library staff are available to help you. Please don’t hesitate to ask - it could save you a lot of time and effort.

General Enquiries 

Reception (Ground floor at entrance) if you want to ask about access to the Library, get a visitor’s pass, or for lost property in the Library.

Service Counter (Ground floor) if you want to borrow, return or renew books, collect an item that you have reserved, pay fines or collect an inter-library loan.

Enquiries Desk (Ground floor) if you want assistance with anything from using the photocopiers to researching a topic for your assignment.

Library General Enquiries telephone number: 0121 204 4525

Email library@aston.ac.uk for general enquiries to the library and queries about:

  • Your Library account
  • Book loans
  • Reservations
  • Renewals
  • Inter-Library Loans
  • Fines

Email lis-enquiries@aston.ac.uk for:

  • Finding information for your assignment
  • Help with research
  • Using the e-Library, e-journals, databases, e-books etc.
  • Help with logging in to electronic information resources 

For all queries regarding disabilities, learning difficulties and dyslexia contact the Public Services Coordinator, Anne Perkins at a.v.perkins@aston.ac.uk or 0121 204 4492



Questions requiring specialised subject advice may be referred to the appropriate Information Specialist:

Aston Business School/School of Languages & Social Sciences

Adele Champken (Law)

a.c.champken@aston.ac.uk

0121 204 4602

Anthony Greenwood (Business School)

a.greenwood@aston.ac.uk

0121 204 4497

Lydia Matheson (Business School)

l.a.matheson@aston.ac.uk

0121 204 4507

Caroline Long (Languages & Social Sciences)

c.a.long@aston.ac.uk

0121 204 4488

School of Engineering and Applied Science/School of Life and Health Sciences 

Georgina Hardy

g.c.hardy@aston.ac.uk

0121 204 4495

Chris Brown

c.brown3@aston.ac.uk

0121 204 4513