It’s great to be able to say hello to our early arrivals who have been stopping by the Library the last few days. Ask library staff all your questions, pop your head around the office door during the week and say hello to the library skills drop-in librarian or chat to us online 24/7 for instant answers to all your questions.
I have been weeding our oldest blog posts and came across this oddity from back in the late 2000s about text generation in Microsoft Word that reveals what we did in the days before ChatGPT generated random text for us. Behold a wondrous technological workaround of the past.
The Library elves have been hard at work fetching and carrying books this summer just gone, finding ways to arrange them so they take up less space. Not only does this mean we can fit in more study space for you to enjoy, but anyone in a wheelchair now has access to the gender neutral, accessible toilets in area 1C.
Another open day arrives! Let’s hope the weather holds up. Friendly Library staff will be here to greet you all day and help you find your way around the building, with informal tours Library offered between 10 am – 12 noon. Help yourself to our promotional postcards, which tell you a little bit more about what we offer, and check out more content here on the Library blog and website for much more online.
Of all the things people aspire to be, being interesting is rarely among them. Yet, who wants to mix with dull, boring people? Perhaps surprisingly, it is the very fear of being found to be uninteresting that constrains what we try and how useful we can be.
Enjoy “BIRD”, the MA Photography showcase free this week at Jack House Gallery. The work on show is selected from larger photographic projects, each the result of extensive and ongoing research and may be viewed as a showcase for photography itself, as a medium uniquely suited to practice-based enquiry.
Just a quick heads up that the Library Reception Desk will be unstaffed for the next two Saturdays and the Library will be closed on the August Bank Holiday Monday. Rest assured our out-of-hours team will be available 24/7 online and by phone should you need anything.
We are updating our WiFi network next week to the dizzying connection speeds offered by WiFi 6. We are assured this is a wonderful thing. The not-quite-so-welcome news is that this means replacing the old WiFi connection boxes on the ceiling, leaving each area of the Library in turn without WiFi for about half an hour.
Clearing starts tomorrow! It’s an exciting and nerve-wracking time of year for all those involved. Anyone who missed the grades required for their original conditional offers will join everyone deciding to change course or who decided to apply late in …
We are continually told that to make sense of the world being pulled over our eyes, we need media literacy to understand how and when we are being lied to by generative AI that is amplifying the biases in existing media reporting, entrenching inequalities and teaching people from early childhood. What is terrifying is that unless we are very careful, we will never notice because it is not given to humankind to question things that meet our expectations. A brief sojourn through the ways we are manipulated shows us how we are being led deeper into the mire of our existing societal prejudices and also how we can choose to begin the slow process of wading back out again.
