While our original Jacobsen-designed Wolfson Library is closed, a Temporary Library is open within the JCR Marquee. This space has been available to students since Michaelmas Term 2024.

Opening times

Term Time:

Monday to Friday, 9am – 9pm
Saturday and Sunday, 9am – 5pm

Vacations:

Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm

You can use the Temporary Library to:

• browse the shelves
• use one of the 4 desks to study (up to 7 readers each)
• collect your books from the book collection point
• borrow and return books at the issue desk
• browse the Magazines trolley
• take any FREE books from our free books trolley – including surplus donations (with donor consent), and books withdrawn from the shelves (e.g. older editions, damaged books)

New books are constantly being added to the College Library, at the recommendation of both Tutors and students, and from undergraduate and graduate reading lists.

A separate College Law Library houses law reports and journals.

We’d love to hear your recommendations! You can email the Librarians directly at library@stcatz.ox.ac.uk. Alternatively, you can email your tutors and ask them to forward relevant book details to us.

• Raptakos Seminar Room (Ainsworth Graduate Centre)
  Opening hours: 6.30 pm – 12.00 am 
• Room 2.3 (Ground floor, four study spaces)
  Opening hours: 24/7
  Please note that space in this room is limited. We kindly ask students to be considerate of others who may need to use the desks and not to reserve or occupy a space when it’s not in use.

The Library is maintained for the primary use of undergraduates, and aims to acquire core texts for all undergraduate and graduate courses taught at the College.

All books in the Library are included in the electronic catalogue (SOLO), which in turn forms part of the wider Oxford University Libraries network.

The Library is wired for access to electronic resources and the Internet. There are three computer terminals. This includes two catalogue PCs, a high-quality photocopy/scanner/printer machine in the Library foyer, and wireless connectivity for laptop users.

The Wolfson Library, established in 1964, houses a collection of approximately 800 antiquarian books. These are located on the library’s ground floor and in Room A of the Bernard Sunley Building .

These reference-only books, which are primarily donations to the Delegacy of Unattached Students and St Catherine’s Society prior to the college’s foundation in the 1960s (with some later donations mainly from alumni in the 1980s and 1990s), are fully catalogued and accessible via SOLO, the Search Oxford Libraries Online catalogue (designated ‘Bookcase’ and ‘Room A, BSB’ ). Some donation records are also held in the College Archives.

Please note: The Special Collections have been temporarily relocated to off-site storage for the duration of the RAAC refurbishment. The date of their return is presently uncertain; however, any requests submitted to library@stcatz.ox.ac.uk will be recorded and addressed as soon as possible.

For any general library enquiries, please email library@stcatz.ox.ac.uk

The Library Team

Librarian: Monika Newcomb (acting librarian while Barbara Costa is on leave)
Email: monika.newcomb@stcatz.ox.ac.uk

Library Assistant: Eduardo Ballesteros
Call: 01865 618116

Find Us on Social Media!

Instagram:@stcatzlibrary

X: @stcatzlib

Please see our Acquisition Policy here.

For enquiries and appointments, please contact: library@stcatz.ox.ac.uk

Please see the Index to the Archives here.

For enquiries and appointments, please contact: library@stcatz.ox.ac.uk.

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Library Computer Room: 08:30 – 23:55
Staircase 18 Computer Room Closed
JCR Email room: 08:00-24:00

The opening hours of the library and JCR, when different, supersede those given here.

There are three rooms in college equipped for computers for use by students:

• Library computer room; this contains 10 PCs, a colour laser printer.
• JCR computer room; located next to the JCR this facility is open to all college members and contains 5 PCs, and a photocopier / printer A4 and A3.

A small charge is levied for printing to cover the cost of consumables and is paid for in advance via the uPay system. Students will be advised of the current charging scheme on arrival. This is currently 4 pence per sheet of A4 black-and-white printing and 10 pence per sheet for colour printing, also A4.

Common software packages that are available to students include Microsoft and Corel Office suites for general word processing, spreadsheet, database and presentation preparation; eXceed for running X-windows, and SPSS for statistics. Each user is allocated 10GB of disk space on a central fileserver; this is quite generous and extensions will only rarely be considered and then only if sufficient resources are available. Files stored on local disks should not be considered secure nor safe from deletion.

All students are given a username and password for access to networked computers. Without the correct combination it is impossible to log on to any computer and use your home directory. Students wishing to make use of the College email facilities must first register individually for an email account with Oxford University Computing Services, email account details are generally provided on arrival for those starting a course at Catz. Once these details are obtained, a variety of email packages are available for use on personally owned computers; instructions for configuring popular email packages is provided by OUCS With regard to PCs found in computer rooms, email should only be used on the machines set aside for that purpose within the email room. Internet access is also available from machines within the student computer rooms.

All student rooms have data-points for connection to the Internet. These are standard RJ-45 sockets operating at either 100Mb/s or 1Gb/s. Students wishing to connect their machines to the data network must register their machines – this process can be conducted online via web-form and does not require a prior visit to the IT office.

Student views on matters of college computing are aired to the IT Committee by two representatives, one from the JCR and another from the MCR. Matters that require prompt resolution should be directed to the appropriate student representative, or, when necessary, the College IT Officer. General information regarding computing issues specific to the college network may be found on posters distributed in the student computing rooms. For additional IT information, please contact us. For news about changes in how IT is provided at St Catherine’s please follow our Catz IT twitterfeed.

Connecting To Networked Printers From Personal Computers and other Devices.

College members may print to networked printers via either document submission by e-mail or uploading to a web portal. Accepted formats include Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, PDF, JPG, GIF, PNG, TIF, and TXT . Users wishing to print other file formats should either convert the document to PDF format prior to submission, or print locally in one of the College’s computer rooms.

Printing documents submitted by e-mail

Send an e-mail with the documents attached that you would like to print, to printing@stcatz.ox.ac.uk, submitted jobs will then be queued until released. Please note that print jobs may only be submitted from your primary University account.

After submitting your print job visit here, login (using your College network credentials), select the ‘My Print Jobs’ tab where you will be able to select your desired destination printer and available (advanced) options such specifying pages, duplexing, or forced monochrome printing.

Printing documents via upload to a web portal

Using your preferred web browser visit here, login (using your College network credentials), and select the ‘Web Print’ tab.

Select whether you wish to print a particular web page (in which case enter the appropriate URL in the field provided), or a specific file. In the latter case ‘Browse’ for the desired file and once selected click on the ‘Next’ button after which you will be able to select your desired destination printer and available (advanced) options such specifying pages, duplexing, or forced monochrome printing.

In case of difficulties please contact the College’s IT staff.