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General Information including opening hours

Opening Hours | Find Us | Access | Contact the Library Trinity College Library is the largest of the Cambridge college libraries with a total book stock of some 300,000 volumes. The modern College Library serves the needs of members…

Information for Alumni

As Members of the College for life, there are many opportunities for alumni to stay connected to Trinity. On this page you can find information about visiting the College, attending alumni events in the UK and overseas, joining our Associations,…

Library

Trinity College Library is the largest of the Cambridge college libraries with a total book stock of around 300,000 volumes. The modern College Library serves the needs of members of the College, particularly students of undergraduate taught courses. The Library

Trinity in Literature

Trinity College has made a number of appearances in world literature, broadly conceived, and not only from the pens of its own members. Some passages are anthologised below.   Chaucer’s lusty proto-Trinitarians And nameliche ther was a greet collegge Men…

Rules and Regulations

Usage: Use of the Reading Room and Lower Library is restricted to members of Trinity College only. Non-members who wish to consult items in Trinity’s collections should make an appointment. Members may show guests the Wren Library during the Wren‘s…

External Links

Other libraries You may use your own Faculty or Department Library, and details of opening times and services can be found in the Cambridge Libraries Directory. All members of the University may use the University Library. If you wish to…

Special Collections

This page gives details of the special collections held by Trinity College Library and where they are catalogued. For the Undergraduate Collections, please see the College Library Collections page. Jump to: Medieval Manuscripts | Early Printed Books | Modern Manuscripts…

Resources

Jump to: Books and Journals | Borrowing  |eResources | DVDs and CDs | Other Items Books and Journals Trinity is the largest of the Cambridge college libraries. We aim to stock all the books required for Part I undergraduate courses,…

Information for Readers

The Wren Library is generally open to visiting readers at the following times: Monday to Friday 9am-1pm and 2.15-5pm. To make an appointment to consult items from Library’s rare books and manuscript collections please email: wren.library@trin.cam.ac.uk. To make an appointment to…

Visiting Trinity College

Guided Tours of Trinity From 3 September 2023, visitors can join a guided tour of the College by a Trinity Porter. Tours will run at 10:00 and 14:00 seven days a week. Please note that some areas of the College…

Work on the Crewe Collection

Digitisation, Cataloguing, Blog, Exhibitions Soon after Crewe books arrived at Trinity, the Library‘s cataloguers and digitisation specialists began working on the Collection, in order to make its treasures available to the general public. Digitisation A few select items of special…

Wren Digital Library

The Wren Digital Library provides access to digitised collections from the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge. The founding purpose was to digitise the College’s collection of Western medieval manuscripts catalogued by M. R. James in 1901-3. There are currently over…

Hidden Casanova letter discovered

Giacomo Casanova’s legendary life of adventure is well known from his autobiographical Mémoires. The Venetian writer and traveller charmed his way across eighteenth-century Europe. The discovery of a hitherto unknown letter shows that Casanova was also close to his family and…

Accessibility guide

Contact Details Address Trinity Street, Cambridge, CB2 1TQ Tel. 01223 338 400 Fax 01223 338 584 Access Issues Contact Admissions Office Tel. 01223 338 422 Fax 01223 338 584 Email admissions@trin.cam.ac.uk

College Library

The College Library serves members of Trinity College and aims to stock all the books required for undergraduate courses, as well as a wide range of works for taught postgraduate courses and research students. In this section you will find…

Trinity says farewell to Sub-Librarian

Trinity’s Sub-Librarian, Sandy Paul, will retire this week. The Sub-Librarian’s post was established in 1773 and Sandy has been in the role for 11 years and has worked at Trinity for 25 years. We caught up with him to hear…

Pittoni Painting returns to the Wren

Pittoni’s imposing oil painting ‘An Allegorical Monument to Sir Isaac Newton’ returned to the Wren Library last month following an absence of over a year during which time it was displayed in the exhibitions at the Grand Palais, Paris and in…

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