Other Resources
Group Study Rooms / Presentation Practice Rooms
If you want to carry out group work in the library then why not book a private group study room and help to keep the library a quiet study environment?
The Drill Hall Library now has 3 group study rooms available to students. These can be booked for a duration of 2 hours where you can carry out group work or practice for seminar presentations. Each room is kitted out with a PC and data projector.
Rooms can be booked by visiting the Security and Reception desk in the main entrance of the Drill Hall. Please make sure you present your student ID card when booking.
Newspapers
The Drill Hall Library subscribes to a number of national and local newspapers which are kept one month for weekly papers and one week for daily papers.
National
- The Times
- Times Higher Education
- Times Educational Supplement
- The Guardian
- Financial Times
- The Independent
- Voice
- Eastern Eye
Local
- Medway Standard
- Medway News
- Kent on Sunday
Maps
We have one of the most extensive map collections in the UK covering both national and international maps. View a printable guide of our maps.
Special Collections
We have a large amount of material stored in a remote facility at the Chatham Historic Dockyard. This is the collection from the former Natural Resources Institute Library and dates back to the 19th century. The subjects covered are tropical agriculture, land resources development, tropical pest management etc with some historically important specialist collections such as the Locust Archive. Items published before 1980 will generally not be on the Drill Hall Library catalogue. Contact a member of library staff if you are interested in this historical material.
