{"id":32,"date":"2026-07-16T06:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/library-extends-to-24-hour-opening\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T05:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:15:16","slug":"library-extends-to-24-hour-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/library-extends-to-24-hour-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"Library Extends to 24-Hour Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The university library has extended to twenty-four hour opening during term time, following a sustained campaign by the students union and a year-long trial that proved overwhelmingly popular.<\/p>\n<p>The change means the reading rooms, group study spaces and full digital collection are now available at any hour \u2014 a particular help during assessment periods and for the growing number of students who study around work or caring responsibilities.<\/p>\n<h5>What round-the-clock access changes<\/h5>\n<figure class=\"uni-post-figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"uni-post-img\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/uni-blog-32-inline.jpg\" alt=\"The library reading room late in the evening\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption>The reading rooms now stay open through the night in term time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The extended hours come with the support to make them genuinely usable:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"uni-post-list\">\n<li><i class=\"isax isax-tick-circle5\"><\/i> Staffed reception and security through the night<\/li>\n<li><i class=\"isax isax-tick-circle5\"><\/i> Bookable group rooms available at any hour<\/li>\n<li><i class=\"isax isax-tick-circle5\"><\/i> A dedicated silent-study floor for focused work<\/li>\n<li><i class=\"isax isax-tick-circle5\"><\/i> Lit routes and a walk-home service across campus until 2am<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"uni-post-quote\">\n<p>The 24-hour library came from a union campaign. It is the clearest example we have that when students ask for something sensible here, the university actually listens.<\/p>\n<p><cite>Priya Raghavan, Students Union President<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The university has committed to keeping the extended hours permanently, and is reviewing whether the same model could be extended to the sports centre and selected study cafes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The university library has extended to twenty-four hour opening during term time, following a sustained campaign by the students union and a year-long trial that proved overwhelmingly popular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}