Sometimes when you search the catalogue for a book the location is displayed as ‘reserve stock’ or ‘overflow shelves’. This simply means that the books are stored in our ‘Rolling stacks’.
This area is not accessible to the public and you would need to either speak to a member of staff to retrieve the book you wish to borrow or reserve through Click & Collect.
The reason we store books in this restricted area is because these books are fragile, due to age. Some non-fiction books are from the 1930’s and most of the fiction books are post 1950's, many are considered classics by historically renowned authors.
The Rolling Stacks contain hundreds of books by acclaimed authors which you don't find in the general Library. Below is just a snippet of some of those books.
You can come into your local Slough Library and browse and issue books Mon-Fri 10am-4pm and Sat 10am-2pm for 15 minutes. Just bring your Library card and facemask.
Alternatively, request through Click & Collect, you just need your Library card number and PIN:
https://slough.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/MSGTRN/WPAC/HOME
William Somerset Maugham 1864-1965 British playwright, novelist and short story writer.
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
1881-1975
English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century.
Jean Iris Murdoch
1919-1999
Irish and British novelist and philosopher
Eleanor Alice Hibbert
1906-1993
Penned novels under the following names:
Jean Plaidy, Victoria Holt, Philippa Carr, Eleanor Burford, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Ellalice Tate, Anna Percival
She combined imagination with facts to bring history alive through novels of fiction and romance.
Edward Morgan Forster
1879-1970
English fiction writer, essayist and librettist
Emma or Emmuska Orczy de Orci
1865-1947
Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright,
author of The Scarlet Pimpernel
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
1892-1973
English writer, poet, philologist, and academic,
The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
1810-1865
Often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer and short story writer
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
1899-1977
Russian-American novelist, poet, translator and entomologist, author of Lolita
Jules Gabriel Verne
1828-1905
French novelist, poet, and playwright.
Bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days
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