Shelving Colour Decision
Many thanks to all who voted in our shelving poll. Beige was clearly an unpopular option, but it was a close run thing between light grey and silver. We have opted for silver as a) it is a popular choice …
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Freegal – Legal Free Music
Portsmouth City Council Library Service is excited to announce that we have launched Freegal- a music streaming and download service. Freegal rhymes with legal, and stands for ‘free and legal’.
The Web is 25 Today
Today is the 25th anniversary of Sir Tim Berners-Lee submitting a paper entitled “Information Management: A Proposal” which served as the basis for what we all now know as the World Wide Web. But in the early ’90s, the early …
Shaping our Future
Students and staff around the University are being invited to take part in ‘Shaping Our Future’ – an exercise that looks at where we might be in fifteen years time. With themes such as ‘our students and their expectations’, ‘our …
The new Library blog
Welcome to the new Library blog “Liblog”. This replaces (but includes) our old “Thing of the Day” and is intended to provide a wider range of posts covering activities, services and people within the Library as well as matters of …
Conference success
At the forthcoming Academic and Research Libraries Group annual conference the University of Portsmouth Library will be represented by three papers : Annushka Donin on digitisation Anne Worden on reading lists Roisin Gwyer on publishing trends in a library journal …
Too many tabs on the website?
Occasionally one of our website visitors comments on the number of tabs/windows the Library website creates during a session. In some situations it can seem overwhelming, but there is method in our madness …
Celebrating a year of self-service
The introduction of self-service kiosks a year ago has cut the time you spend waiting to borrow and return books. Self-service has proved popular, with 83.53% of all books borrowed and returned each month through self-service kiosks in 2013. If …
4 Hour Loan Book Transformation
In preparation for losing the Short Loan Room, we are gradually changing the status and location of our 4 hour loan books.
