Finding Books

Where are the books?

Books are shelved according to the Library of Congress classification system, A-PL on the Level 3 of the Main library and PM-Z on Level 4.

You will find the books relating to health sciences and medicine on level 4. View the list of subject areas and their call numbers to the right if you want to know where to browse.

A copy of each prescribed and recommended text can also be found in the Reserve Collection, which is behind the Library & Computing Service Desk on level 2 of the Main Library.

If you need help finding the books you need, please ask at the Library & Computing Service Desk.

Borrowing from the Library

Your student ID card doubles as your Library card, and you will need it to borrow from the Library.

To find out what you can borrow and for how long view the Borrower Information page.

Demerit points for late returns

Level 4 Library Shelves

At Bond, you won't accrue a monetary fine if you fail to return items on the due date, but you will accumulate demerit points:

Books and multimedia items accrue 10 points per day per item
Film and Television items (DVDs) accrue 50 points per day per item
Course Reserve items accrue 100 points per hour per item

You should also be aware that:

exam results are withheld from students with overdue loans;
you are unable to borrow or renew books if you have items overdue;
if you accrue 1000 demerit points, your Library borrowing privileges will be suspended for at least one week

How to log into your Library account

Please view this short video on logging into your library account. Logging into your library account allows you to:

Renew your loans online
View your current loans and loans history
Place a hold request on an item

How to search for a book

If you want to know whether the Library has a specific book, search the Library catalogue.

The link to the Library catalogue is available from the Library home page.

The easiest way to search the catalogue for a particular book is to simply do a keyword search using one or two words from the title together with one or two author surnames. For example, to find the book 'Gray's anatomy for students' by Richard Drake, you could simply enter grays anatomy drake and click Go, as illustrated below:

Catalogue Seach

Have a go at searching the Library catalogue for one of the following texts - ask a member of the Library staff if you have any difficulty:

'Clinical examination: a systematic guide to physical diagnosis' by Nicholas Talley
'Pharmacology' by Humphrey Rang & Maureen Dale
'Medical genetics' by Lynn Jorde

What is Summon and how does it differ from the library catalogue?

Summon is the Library's "discovery tool", and the Summon search box is prominent on the Library home page. Summon allows you to do a quick and easy search across a wide range of the Library's resources (the library catalogue, numerous journal databases and e-book collections) simultaneously.

There are times when it is useful to search Summon, and times when it might be more practical to search the library catalogue or one or more individual journal databases. If ever you're not sure whether to search Summon, the library catalogue, or an individual database, please consider the following:

You can search Summon to find out if the library has a particular book, but because Summon searches across so many other resources in addition to the library catalogue, your search will return a large number of results from other resources as well, so a direct search of the library catalogue may be more appropriate when looking for a specific book.
Some resources are not "discoverable" in summon, including Anatomy TV, Therapeutic Guidelines, FirstConsult, Medline, MIMS Online, PsycINFO, Scopus, UpToDate and Web of Science.

Watch this quick demo on how to use Summon, then try it for yourself!