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Our meeting rooms can be booked in person or via phone. Please contact our friendly team for conditions of use.
Microfilm readers and scanner PCs are available to view 16mm and 35mm formats and microfiche. Scanpro software is available for browsing, printing and scanning content.
We have a specialised dedicated audiovisual room for you to view videos, DVDs, cassettes and CDs from our collections or on interlibrary loan.
Audio recordings from oral history collections are used in the Somerville Reading Room.
The reading room is a specially controlled environment where you can view items from our heritage collection or fragile and older reference material. To help preserve items in our collection, whilst you are viewing them, we ask that you follow the Somerville Reading Room conditions of use.
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