Welcome to the SUSS Library information pages.

We are part of the National Caving Librarians Group. The aim of this group is to produce a caving library network that is of use to cavers.

For too long caving libraries have been put in a dusty cupboard and forgotten about, no one cared for them, no one used them. Because of this individuals spent money on items for their own use and the group libraries by and large declined further. As a group we are slowly getting our act together to provide resources to our fellow cavers that they can use easily. The first stage is for each librarian to catalogue their holdings, to produce a list of their groups publications, and then ultimately produce a full index for them that is accessible to as many people as possible.

Work on the SUSS library is ongoing. As with many student libraries little work has been done in the past about cataloging and indexing publications. The SUSS library is in the perverse situation where other club libraries have copies of SUSS publications that SUSS do not have. Therefore if you have copies / or know of publications by SUSS that are not listed in the publications list, please email the librarian so that we can get things as up to date as possible.

The indexes are rather large (150k each), so unless you have a fast link you are probably better off downloading the Adobe Acrobat files which includes the publication list, author index and subject index.

For further information on SUSS and its activities then email suss@sheffield.ac.uk

For more information on the SUSS library and Publications then email SUSSLibrary@therivetts.org

For further non-SUSS library information pages visit the cave librarians resource pages