The Medical Library, which is an affiliate library of the Cambridge University Library, serves

• students and staff of the University of Cambridge
  • your blue University badge is your library membership
• staff and students on placement at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • register to use the library (see below)
• University of Cambridge alumni with a valid reader’s card from the UL (note, it is your responsibility to ensure you have a valid reader’s card, as we will not be able to register you if the card has expired)
• NHS staff working in the East of England region
• others who may be admitted on application to the Librarian. A charge may be made to those wishing to use the library for purposes of commerce or profit.

Registering for the Medical Library

• Staff and students with a blue university card are automatically members of the Medical Library, no further registration is necessary.
• For new NHS staff, or students on placement in a hospital, if you’re eligible to join the library you’ll need to register using an online form. Please use your work email to register (eg @addenbrookes.nhs.uk, @nhs.net, @anglia.ac.uk), rather than a personal Gmail or Hotmail address. Then email library@medschl.cam.ac.uk to notify us that you have completed the registration form. Please include your job role and contract end date if applicable. We will then complete the registration process.
• NHS staff who think they were a member of the library in the past should email the library to check: library@medschl.cam.ac.uk. We can then update your membership. Please note — if you were a University of Cambridge member in the past (e.g. as a student or staff member at the university), but are now working for the NHS, you will also need to fill in a new registration form.

Privacy statement: How the University Library (and Medical Library) uses your personal information in its management system

We use your personal information to keep membership records to provide you with access to the library and its services, and to contact you with information about your library use and the services which the library offers. We use your personal information in order to deliver our contractual obligations to you as a user of our service. Our standard terms of service are available from the University Library’s website. The University Library and its affiliated libraries use a shared user management system and database, and as a result your personal information is available to all authorised libraries in the University of Cambridge, the Cambridge Theological Federation, and participating College Libraries. We also use your personal information to create a user account for you. This enables secure access and provides user functionality through the University Library’s Discovery Service, iDiscover. Please click here for more information about how the libraries of the University handle your personal information, and your rights under data protection legislation.