| Pilkington Library | |
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| Location | Loughborough University Campus, Loughborough, England |
| Type | Academic library |
| Established | 1980 |
| Collection | |
| Items collected | books, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, and manuscripts |
| Size | over 600,000 books; 90,000 bound serials and access to over 10,000 e- journals |
| Access and use | |
| Members | Loughborough University (and some other groups on application) |
| Other information | |
| Director | Jeff Brown (Acting University Librarian) |
| Website | http://www.lboro.ac.uk/library/ |
The Pilkington Library is the academic library at Loughborough University, situated in the West Park of the university campus at Loughborough, Leicestershire, in the East Midlands of England. It is named after Lord Pilkington.
Built to an unusual design on an unusual site in the West Park area of the campus, the library building is immediately adjacent to Village Park. As it is adjacent to the University's more recent Elvyn Richards halls, its Combined Heat and Power plant can be used to cool the library building with otherwise wasted heat.[1]
The Pilkington Library opened in 1980[2] as the main library to the then Loughborough University of Technology; the university library had previously been located in the Herbert Manzoni building which provided around a quarter of the capacity of the new facility,[3] with the Fairbairn Library (the Loughborough College of Art and Design Library before the merger of LCAD - renamed LUSAD post merger - and the University in 1998), located at the far extremity of the campus adjacent to the RNIB College and Loughborough College. At a later date this building was closed when the library stock was re-located to the Pilkington Library.
- ^ Aldred, Jessica. "University to create own power". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 September 2008.
- ^ "About Your Library". Loughborough University Library. Retrieved 27 September 2008.
- ^ Cantor, Leonard (1990). Loughborough University of Technology: Past and Present. Audio Visual Services, Loughborough University of Technology. p. 180. ASIN B0011T8ABK.