29 January marks the start of the Chinese Year of the Snake in the popular interpretation of the Chinese Zodiac. The Chinese calendar is a cyclical lunisolar calendar that still holds great cultural and religious significance in many Far Eastern cultures. One of the biggest celebrations of the Chinese year, celebrated by a series of festivities rooted in Chinese folklore, such as fireworks and firecrackers.
The Holocaust proved what can happen given the right conditions, with a compliant people under the sway of a demagogue. It reminds us of the ever-present threat of tyranny, discrimination and persecution that we must resist every day. It is up to each of us to challenge language, assumptions and behaviours that have no place in an inclusive society.
Every year, you tell us that our resources were one of the things you like most about your courses. We are excited to empower you to fulfil your potential and go further, and have spent nearly £3 million on resources to ensure you have everything you need to succeed. We have also worked hard to make it easier to understand how to find and use our electronic resources.
The VLeBooks platform will be unavailable next Saturday night, between 10 pm on Saturday 25 January and 4 am on Sunday 26 January while the supplier carries out essential maintenance on the platform. You won’t be able to access any …
Taylor & Francis eBooks now come with a redesigned eReader available from Taylorfrancis.com offering a redeveloped, simpler, seamless and inclusive reading experience. Available now for ebook chapters and downloads, and replacing the old ereader for reading entire ebooks online from 16 February, the new ebook reader supports the more accessible and feature rich ePub format as well as sporting a more intuitive interface.
You told us you enjoyed being surrounded by attractive works of art so we expanded our display space and turned much of the Library into an exhibition space.
A lot of lecturers and librarians then asked what was going to happen to all the links pointing to specific chapters/pages of these ebooks, because most reading lists rely on deep linking to work. EBSCO thought about this briefly, then came back to reassure everyone that they are going to make sure all these deep links continue to work after the change. This has meant that the introduction of the epub format ebooks has been delayed by a few weeks.
You tell us every year that the Library is one of your favourite study spaces on campus, but that space can be at a premium at peak times. we reimagined and repositioned the Book Nook, introduced many more individual and shared study pods, and refurbished our soft seating areas so you always have somewhere comfortable to sit.
Let the University Library’s Outside in World: Children’s Books in Translation collection inspire you to make your own zine to take away. Join us for a zine-making workshop as part of BookFest 2025. The event is open to everyone – …
The British Pharmacopoeia online has been updated and now uses the familiar institutional login process. Here’s a walkthrough of how to log into the new system: Finding the British Pharmacopoeia Search for “British Pharmacopoeia” in the Discovery Service or Library …
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