LRC Guide

To sign into your LRC Search account, you will need to know your College email address and password.

1. Go to LRC Search. You can find it under Quick Links on the homepage of this guide.
2. You can click either your profile circle, or the login link in the top right. Then follow the link to login to your account.
3. If you are already signed into your College account on your device, you should be signed in immediately. Otherwise, you will be prompted to enter your College email and password.

Our new catalogue catalogue provides you with an clean and simple search experience.

You can now renew books quickly and easily in just a couple of clicks, without needing to contact us.

1. Log into your LRC Search account and go to your "Loans" tab.
2. Select the items you want to renew
3. Click the "Renew" button

You should see the due date update. You can also see how many online renewals you have left. If you have already renewed it twice but want to keep it for longer, you will have to bring it in and speak to the library staff.

It's now very easy and quick to reserve a book for click and collect. You can also reserve a book that is already checked out, so that when it is returned it is kept to one side for you.

1. Log in to LRC Search and find the item you want to reserve.
2. Click the 'Reserve' button.
3. Wait for an email notifying you that it is ready to collect. You must pick up your item within 48 hours before they will be put back on the shelf or issued to the next person in the reservation queue.
4. You can monitor or cancel your reservations via your LRC Search account

 

To review your current reservations, simply go to your account area and click on the "Reserved" tab. Here you can see the check the status of your reservation, see the due date of any books that are checked out to another user, and track your place in the reservation queue.

If a simple search doesn't show you the results you want, you can try narrowing it down by only searching for certain bits of information:

1. Click on the "Build a search" button next to the search box
2. You can choose to build your search using a combination of title, author, keyword, subject, material type and publication date. For example, if you wanted to find all ebooks about shakespeare, you would enter "Keyword: Shakespeare" and "Material type: Ebook"
3. Click "Go" and your new results list should appear

Top tip: If you still can't find what you want, go back and edit your search or try searching another database like EBSCO Discover.