Opening hours

Library staff on-site 
Monday - Friday
09.00 - 21.00
Saturday
13.30 - 17.00

Christmas and New Year 2025 - 2026
The library will open but unstaffed from 13.00 on Monday 22 December until 9.00 on Monday 5 January

Imperial College London staff and students and NHS staff and students of Trusts affiliated with Imperial with active library membership have 24 hour swipe card access, including bank holidays and university closures, providing access to the library PCs, quiet study area and book collection.

You can return books out of hours via the red book returns box at the library entrance. They will be removed from your record when the library is next staffed.

 

librarycw@imperial.ac.uk

+44 (0)20 3315 8107 

Chelsea and Westminster Campus Library
Imperial College London
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital 
369 Fulham Road
London
SW10 9NH

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About us

The library has:

  • a quiet study area
  • 23 Imperial College London networked PCs
  • 6 Chelsea and Westminster NHS Trust networked PCs
  • 3 training / group study rooms

Books and journals

Our book collection covers general medicine (including medical textbooks), nursing and professions allied to medicine and also specialises in:

  • AIDS
  • emergency medicine
  • evidence-based medicine
  • mental health
  • midwifery
  • obstetrics and gynaecology
  • ophthalmology
  • paediatrics
  • plastic surgery

Our journal collection is entirely electronic.

Training rooms

Imperial and NHS users may book our training rooms for group and project work, email librarycw@imperial.ac.uk to book.

Please read our Training rooms terms of use before booking.

Training room 1 (maximum 4 people)

Includes: 

  • 1 folding table
  • 4 stackable chairs and 1 computer chair
  • 1 flip chart stand
  • 1 screen
  • 2 Imperial networked PCs - 1 connected to the screen
  • Imperial College network sockets
  • 1 Chelsea and Westminster NHS Trust network socket

Training room 2 (maximum 20 people)

Includes:

  • 6 flip-top folding tables
  • 20 chairs
  • 1 flip chart stand
  • 2 screens 
  • 2 Imperial networked PC - 1 connected to the screen
  • 1 Chelsea and Westminster NHS Trust networked PC connected to the screens
  • Imperial network sockets

Combine with room 3 to hold up to 40 people.

Training room 3 (maximum 20 people)

Includes: 

  • 6 flip-top folding tables
  • 20 chairs
  • 1 flip chart stand
  • 1 screen 
  • 2 Imperial networked PCs - 1 connected to the screen
  • 1 Chelsea and Westminster NHS Trust networked PC connected to the screen
  • Imperial network sockets

Combine with room 2 to hold up to 40 people.

Getting here

Use the revolving doors at the main entrance to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.

  • Via the escalator: walk to your right, past the hospital's main reception, until you reach a fish tank. Turn right for the escalator down to the lower ground floor. At the bottom of the escalator, turn right, then right again and go through the double doors. Head straight down the corridor - the library is on the left with a red book returns box outside.
  • Via the lifts: walk past the hospital's main reception and head for Lift bank B. Take the lift to the lower ground floor. On exiting the lift turn right and go through the double doors. Head left down the main corridor and then turn left and head for the double doors. Go through these doors and head straight down the corridor - the library is on the left with a red book returns box outside.