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Legacy Collection Guide

Finding and accessing Legacy Collection items

Many Legacy items are discoverable on Library Search. Just use the drop down box for Legacy to search within the collection by keyword, author or title.

You can also filter your results using the Item Type: Legacy Collection filter on the left hand side of your results.

Some of our Legacy items are still awaiting cataloguing or recataloguing and may not show up in your results. Please contact us if you would like to know more about other relevant Legacy items.

Once you have found an item or items you wish to consult, please sign into your Library Account with your ITS User name and password, you will then be able to use the Request button to ask for the materials to be fetched for you from our stores.

We will email you to arrange a convenient time to come into the Library and consult your items in our Legacy Reading Room. Our email will explain what will happen when you come in to view your materials.

Please do also feel free to contact us at library.collectiondevelopment@sussex.ac.uk for help and further information about the Legacy Collection.