Disability Support: Accessible study room

Accessible Study Rooms

The library has two accessible study rooms:

• Group Room 7 on silent floor 1.  For use only by students registered with the Disabilities Office.  Contains adjustable furniture and accessible software/hardware.

• Group Room 1 on the ground floor for use by students with limited mobility. This room is used by all university students and has a standard set up with no adjustable furniture.  The room is booked by using the Room Bookings icon on Locate homepage; but it can be booked for sole use or with a helper unlike the other standard group rooms.

Group Room 7

Group Room 7 on the first floor is set aside for the sole use of students known to the Disability Team in the Hub. The room is intended for quiet study for individual use, or with a helper, and is located on our silent floor for minimum noise distraction. 

To see photographs of Group Room 7 go to the Accessable.co.uk webpage for that room. 

How to book Group Room 7

The room can be booked via the Welcome Desk, the Libchat service on the homepage of Locate, or by phoning Customer Services on 024 7688 7575.   

The room must be booked by the student.

We are happy for other rooms to be booked by disabled students if this is for work with tutors.

All bookings should be made by the student and in the student name.

The following equipment is available in Group Room 7:

• networked PC
• table with electrically adjustable height from 60 to 126 centimetres
• manually adjustable height stool from 63 to 91 centimetres
• trackball mouse

The following facilities are available on the networked PC in this room:

• a colour magnifying mouse ​
• Kurzweil 1000 software and scanner - scan a document or book page with the scanner and the computer will read it out. 
• SuperNova Magnifier and Screen Reader   -  available also on certain machines across campus. 

The following text to speech and writing support software can be accessed via Apps Anywhere on the computer in Group Room 7:

• Texthelp Read&Write

The following mind mapping software can be accessed via Apps Anywhere on the computer in Group Room 7:

• Freemind
• Inspiration
• Xmind