{"id":18545,"date":"2025-06-05T10:30:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T09:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/?p=18545"},"modified":"2025-06-05T10:30:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T09:30:20","slug":"returning-your-library-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/returning-your-library-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Please return your library books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please take any opportunity when you\u2019re visiting campus to return books you no longer need, especially if you\u2019re a final year student and are leaving Kent this year, or are going to be away from campus over the summer. Books you have borrowed can still be reserved by other people during the vacation.<\/p>\n<h2>Your options for returning\u00a0books<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>If you\u2019re <strong>on the Canterbury campus<\/strong>, use the book returns drop off point in the Welcome Hall or the external book drop on Library Road.<\/li>\n<li>If you <strong>live in the Medway area<\/strong>, you can return Templeman Library books to the Drill Hall Library at the Universities of Medway campus.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Posting books<\/strong>: depending on weight and volume, you could consider breaking up a large parcel into smaller ones. Courier services might be cheaper than Royal Mail and pick up the parcel from you. Whatever method you use, please make sure you get a receipt.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Our postal address is:\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Book Returns,\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"none\">Templeman Library,\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"none\">University of Kent,\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"none\">Canterbury, Kent,\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"none\">CT2 7NU<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">If you\u2019re\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">unable to return your books<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> by any of these methods, please get in touch with us and we\u2019ll work out a solution with you.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Contact\u00a0us<\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">P<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">lease contact us if you need any help or advice around returning books or any other library query. O<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ur staff are here to help you:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"2\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">phone 01227 82 4888<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"2\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">email <a href=\"mailto:helpdesk@kent.ac.uk\">helpdesk@kent.ac.uk<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"2\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">use\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library-it\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u201cChat to us\u201d on our webpages<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please take any opportunity when you\u2019re visiting campus to return books you no longer need, especially if you\u2019re a final year student and are leaving &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/returning-your-library-books\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":24087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72438,227582,21339,1120,26284,19149,227586,206948,25211,4859,19173,107,227592,21632,183276,227594,1346,162,10269,85943,227606,227598,227599,69,18570,96197,131594,1082,18573,227607,43796],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18545"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26886,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18545\/revisions\/26886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}