Who’s afraid of the big, bad… picture?
At the far end of the first floor, in the newest part of the building, there’s a print of a painting. It’s quite large, and for the last few years I’ve avoided walking anywhere near it. Maybe I should explain.
Author: Enquiries
Penguins love poems!
Yesterday was National Poetry Day. Unfortunately, as is sometimes the way in a busy workplace, all our best intentions fell by the wayside as we dealt with a plethora of enquiries. We failed to blog (as planned) about poems we …
Tiaras, Tiffin, and Teamwork
There are many things library staff here are good at. Delivering excellent customer service, promoting information literacy, cataloging, public speaking, delivering training, organising stock, managing online information, singing our own praises, baking, dressing up, eating cake, raising money for charity…
Penguins and decorating
Part of the Ground Floor of the Library flooded due to a collapsed drain and heavy rains experienced by Portsmouth on Monday. The IT Helpers quickly moved all the printers (and anything electric) away from the rising tide and the …
New Film Industry Data (Film ID) resource
It seems to me that every new blockbuster film “breaks box office records” during its opening weekend and I sometimes wonder where this information comes from. Well, now I know. Film Industry Data (or Film ID) is a resource which …
The building blocks of enquiries…
Helping students with more specialised subject searches is usually the realm of our Faculty Librarians and their assistants, but sometimes we Enquiries staff are asked questions which sit on the borderline of being specialist, and which we enjoy helping with. …
Don’t forget your pants! An exploration of the Women’s Wear Daily archive online
“Women’s Wear Daily”, as the name suggests, is a daily publication focusing on the business of women’s clothing. Published in America from 1910, it’s been monitoring trends for over a century. The complete archive of this publication, complete with high …
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Never judge a book by its cover…
A couple of months ago, you may remember me blogging about my favourite books. Or maybe you don’t. Well, whilst pulling together the threads of fiction that make up the literary tapestry of my life, I rediscovered Tomi Ungerer. Ungerer’s …
MOP (Massively Observed Penguin)
Mass Observation? Sounds fishy to me! But no, it’s not about surveillance, CCTV or Big Brother.
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the stressiest of us all?
We all understand that revision, exams and impending deadlines can be very stressful, especially as end of year assessments approach. My colleagues here in the Library have blogged about it, and the Students Union have dedicated a web page to it, …
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