Using the Library

The Library contains an important collection of specialist neurology, neurosurgery and neuroscience books and journals, together with some general medical and biomedical literature, as well as housing Queen Square Archives.

• Membership: the Library is for current members of UCL Library Services only. Please check who can use the library and joining instructions before you visit. Always carry your library card and check in at the desk.
• Opening hours: check our opening hours page before your visit as occasionally we may need to change our hours due to circumstances beyond our control. The page lists our standard opening hours and announces details of any changes we may need to make at short notice.
• Services: visit our services page for information on all our services, including training, document delivery, and current awareness.
• Study spaces: none of the Library's rooms or individual study spaces are bookable; they are available on a first come first served basis to members of the library. We do not have any spaces suitable for meetings in the Library as none of the study spaces are soundproof and we need to keep internal doors open for ventilation purposes. Some larger UCL Library sites offer bookable group study and single study pods.
• IT in the library: visit our computers page for details of the IT facilities available in the library.
• Accessibility: access to the library space is via a short flight of stairs to the ground floor of the building and then stairs or a lift to the 1st floor. A platform lift is available to reach the ground floor but please contact us in advance to arrange for an operator to be available. This is the only step free access into the building. Visit the UCL Library Services website for details of other facilities for users with accessibility requirements.

Contacting the Library

• Address: Queen Square Library, 1st Floor, 23 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG
• Internal post: Box 74
• Telephone: external 020 3448 4709 | internal from IoN 84144 | internal from NHNN 26 84144. Please note: we are able to answer the telephone only during our onsite opening hours. 
• Email: neurolibrary@ucl.ac.uk
• Twitter: @neurolib 

Trying to contact the Hospital? Library staff are unable to give advice to patients or carers regarding conditions or treatments. Instead, you should contact the Hospital on: 020 3456 7890. Please note that patients must seek referral to the National Hospital through their GP or, for information about private treatment, refer to Queen Square Private Healthcare.

How to find the Library

The Queen Square Library is located inside no.23 Queen Square, a four-storey building located at the north end of Queen Square. Enter the building up the front steps and, once inside, turn left through the Private Patients' area and through two sets of double-doors to the stairwell and lift area. The library is on the 1st floor of the building.  As the library is in central London, parking can be difficult. It is recommended that you use public transport to visit us if possible - check the Transport for London Route Planner and view UCL cycling information.

• Map of the surrounding area
• Map of buildings in Queen Square

Library regulations

Queen Square Library is covered by the UCL Library Services regulations.

Reports and presentations

Our Annual report gives an overview of our recent activities:

• File

  Queen Square Library Annual Report 2023-24.pdf

You may also wish to view our virtual tour; our latest induction presentation for NHNN and induction presentation for ION students and the Library video at the bottom of this page.  

For updates and more information about services across all of UCL Library Services, please check the UCL Library Services web site.

Meet the Queen Square Library Team

Daytime team (Monday- Friday, 9am-5pm)

Sarah Lawson (Head of Queen Square Library), Kate Brunskill (Deputy Librarian), Urszula Skiba (Information Assistant), Carl Banks (Information Assistant).

Evening team (Monday-Friday, 5-7pm)

Lai Han Lam, Library Assistant who is part of UCL Library Services' Evening & Weekend Team.

Visit the UCL Library Services pages for details of staff in other UCL library teams.

Recycling and sustainable activities

The Queen Square Library is part of Sustainable UCL and we try to avoid creating waste, to recycle as much as possible and to act in a sustainable manner. Here are a few things we've been up to:

• we ask our library users to help - switching off desk lights and using water fountains to refill your water bottles.We have a water fountain installed in the Library. Map of water fountains across UCL buildings ; Map of public fountains across London
• Please let us know if you have any more ideas.
• we promote wider sustainability issues across UCL - why not visit the UCL Sustainability website, including Resources page and UCL's Sustainability Strategy; UCL Climate Hub 
• we promote events at UCL via social media, from gardening to bike workshops, Global Citizenship to bird walks.
• we try to recycle wherever possible in conjunction with the Queen Square Division Waste Recycling Project (who provide our waste services, managed by UCLH).
• we have centralised our waste bins so that we can recycle more effectively, you will find two types of bin at the entrance to the library: use the clear bin liner for recyclables (including paper, cardboard, newspapers, cans and packaging), use the black bin liner for non-recyclables (including food waste or food-contaminated waste - but please remember, no eating in the library & only covered drinks please!).
• we recycle batteries.
• we link to other locally-provided 'Green' services, for example Camden's on-street recycling facilities (view a map).

Wellbeing

Queen Square Library is developing a wellbeing collection, complementing resources available across UCL Libraries. Details of books held at this library and other UCL Library sites can be found on the UCL Library catalogue.  Please see also the Mental Health and Wellbeing reading list ,Cruciform Hub's collection of  and UCL self-help library.

Lost property

Lost property will be held for six weeks from when found. Where an item has identifying marks, we will attempt to contact the owner. 

Queen Square Library video

The video features interviews with students and staff of Queen Square. Filmed November 2015. Launched January 2016. With many thanks to the students and staff who took part in the interviews. The Library also features in a number of other videos.