King's Libraries

She's an old building, you have to bear with her a bit. This came out of feedback we received at Christmas. Read all about it in our Library Loop blog! 🔗LINK IN BIO #feedback #listening #librariesofinstagram #library #maughanlibrary

Study with Respect :) #exams #kcl #respect #studying #library #librariesofinstagram #bekind #lookoutforeachother

🧊 She's an old building, you gotta bear with her 🧊 Come speak to the front desk if you are struggling to find a cool place to study in the Maughan! #CoolAsACube #MaughanLibrary #KCL #KingsCollegeLondon

📸 Thank you to everyone who attended our latest Film Club last Friday! We invited you to take a well-earned break from the books and join us for a screening of WALL-E (2008), Pixar's beloved and visually stunning adventure about a little robot with a very big heart. The film was chosen from our collection for its surprising ability to predict the future [it came out in 2008!]. At the event, you cleaned us out of food and drinks so it could not have been more successful from our point of view, as we always aim to produce the least amount of waste possible. Totaling up all the scores we received, you gave the event an average score of 8.3/10 (10 = best thing I ever went to, 1 = you wasted my time). But do not just take our word for it, here is some feedback that was left by your fellow King's community members: 🎟 "So fire", 🎟 "Great event especially during exam season snacks were awesome thanks!" 🎟 "It was great to watch Thanks!" Film Club will return for King's annual Wellbeing Week in November to help you destress, make friends, and ease your return to King's after the summer holiday period. Keep your eyes peeled on our socials for that 👀 #LibraryFilmClub #WallE #GoodLuck #WestonRoom #MaughanLibrary #Community #LibraryFilmCollections #KingsCollegeLondon #KCL

"The Library is a bit like a canvas, you can paint it in your own image.” 🎨 Meet Saleh, one of your King’s librarians and a friendly face around the library 📚 We asked him 10 quick-fire questions: his favourite spots to sit, the books he keeps coming back to, and the titles he thinks deserve more attention. If you’re looking for your next read, or just a new way to use the space, he’s a good place to start 👀📖

📖 World Book Day Wrap-Up! For International World Book Day [23 April] we asked you to share what you are currently reading and recommend books to each other. Students and staff put them up as post-it notes on a whiteboard at the Maughan. 👇 Here is your next read 👇 🦁 Available in King's Libraries are: 🔸The Lottery & Other stories - Shirley Jackson 🔸Strait is the Gate - Andre Gide 🔸 What you are Looking For is in the Library - Michiko Aoyama 🔸 The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde 🔸 White Teeth - Zadie Smith 🔸 The King Must Die - Mary Renault 🔸 Maurice - E.M. Forster 🔸 Orientalism - Edward Said 🔸 The Prince - Machiavelli 🔸 All About Love - bell hooks 🔸 The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran 🔸 Everything I know About Love - Dolly Alderton 🔸 A Psalm for the Wild-Built - Becky Chambers 🔸Butter - Asako Yuzuki Find them via Library Search! --- --- --- --- --- 📕 Available in all good bookshops are: 🔹The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera 🔹 The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Alix E. Harrow 🔹 Raybearer - Jordan Ifueko 🔹 More Everything Forever - Adam Becker 🔹 Mistborn - Brandon Sanderson 🔹Mi Planta de Naranja Lima - Jose Mauro de Vasconcelos 🔹 Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer 🔹 The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny - Kiran Desai 🔹 Game Changers - Rachel Reid 🔹 Salvation of a Saint - Keigo Higashino 🔹 Unbound: A Woman’s Guide to Power - Kasia Urbaniak 🔹 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 🔹 The Teller of Small Fortunes - Julie Leong 🔹 Bound Feet & Western Dress - Pang-Mei Natasha Chang 🔹 50 Shades of Grey - E.L. James 🔹 The Gruffalo - Julia Donaldson --- --- --- --- --- Thank you very much to everyone who left a note 😊 you made the King's community a little brighter that day. Happy reading everyon! #WorldBookDay #BookRecommendations #KeepReading #SaveForAfterExams #MaughanLibrary #KingsCollegeLondon #KCL

🎥 Library Film Club showing "Wall-E" as part of Take Time Out. Yes, there will be free snacks. Get yourself signed up today! 🔐 King's students only. #WallE #YourMindMatters #KingsCollegeLondon #KCL

Calling all London university students! 📢 Are you the proud owner of a coherent collection of printed and/or manuscript materials? Do you want to share your passion with us all? Apply for the Anthony Davis Book Collecting Prize for a chance to win £600, plus an allowance of £300 to buy a book for us and share your collection through a talk. Check out the link in bio to find out more and apply before Mon 25 May. Photo credit: a selection of stamp album covers from Penny James’ collection, 2025’s runner up. #book #bookcollecting #prize #london #londonstudent #students #ucl #kcl #soas #ual #lse #birkbeckuniversityoflondon #universityoflondon #books #specialcollections

10 questions. Real librarians. The books you should be reading 📚 With UNESCO’s World Book Day this week, we dropped into King’s Library to meet the people who know books best 📚 Allow us to introduce Arved, one of the experts behind your next read. Underrated reads. Hidden gems. The titles everyone should have on their radar. We put our librarians on the spot with 10 quick-fire questions… and their answers might just change what you read next 👀 Think you’re using the library enough? Think again. So… what are you waiting for? Go pay King’s Library a visit 📚 You might just find your next favourite book. #WorldBookDay #WorldBookDay2026 #BookTok #KCL #KingsCollegeLondon #LibraryTok

Calling all film buffs 🎬, this UNESCO World Book Day, why not become a bookworm? 📚🐛 Swap what you watch… for what you read. Explore our librarians’ top screen‑to‑page picks, revisit the stories you already love (with all the extra detail films leave behind), or discover new reads that capture the themes of your favourite movies. Make the switch, you might be surprised what you’ve been missing. Visit the King’s libraries or start reading instantly on Libby. #WorldBookDay #WorldBookDay2026 #BookTok #KCL #KingsCollegeLondon

👀 Our stuff is in the @kingsartshums Curiosity Cabinet on 171 Strand! It was a real pleasure to contribute photos, scans, expertise, and items from both the Foyle Special Collections Library and @kings_archives to the latest exhibition in this space. "Lost Landscapes of Print" explores the history of printing on the Strand and will be on display until Summer 2026. ❓Did you know that the @lifeatkings Strand Campus was once the beating heart of London's Print and Book Trade? Big 'improvement'(?) schemes around 1900 have long since displaced these business and communities, but what's in print has a very long afterlife... 👀 Learn more about their history as well as King's very own @bearyardpress by checking out the cabinet! @culturalkings #CuriosityCabinet #KingsCollegeLondon #LibraryMaterialInTheWild #ArchiveMaterialIntheWild #OutThere

On Tuesday evening we welcomed distinguished guests and members of Canning House to the Maughan Library in order to celebrate and explore the Canning House Library Collection that was transferred to King's College in 2012. This collection represents one of Europe's finest sources of literature on the UK, Latin American, and Iberian relationship. 🌎 Members were given a tour of the Foyle Special Collections Library, heard about the work we have been doing to increase access and preserve this valuable collection through digitisation and enjoyed a reception in the beautiful Weston Room. If you would like to explore our digitised materials then you can find them on the newly created Canning House collection on the King's College London JSTOR page. Link in description. If you would like to view this rare and unique material in person then please contact staff at the Foyle Special Collections Library to make an appointment. #Kingscollegelondon #KCL #KnowledgeExchange #LibrariesAndCollections #Collaboration #CanningHouse