Inormation about the University of Portsmouth Library, its services and activities
On Wednesday 13 November 2024, the Library central heating boiler will be replaced. This vital infrastructure upgrade will ensure we heat the Library more efficiently and reliably while controlling our carbon footprint as the University works towards becoming carbon zero. This work is expected to last only for a few hours but you may notice some small changes on the day.
The following is a list of new ebooks received by the Library during October. More complete listings for the year can be found on our website’s new books page.
The following is a list of new books received by the Library during October. More complete listings for the year can be found on our website’s new books page
The toilets in the ground floor corridor towards the rear of the Library building will be temporarily unavailable on Saturday 26 October while contractors clean the water tanks supplying this toilet block. Happily, these were the least attractive of all our toilets, …
We are delighted to re-open the temporary Postgraduate Study Suite from today for all our postgraduate students to use.
We would like to thank all our postgraduate students for their patience while we welcomed our new international students. The Library Meeting Room (UL 0.12) is now all yours again as an exclusively postgraduate study space. We have set out the room exactly as it was before.
The following is a list of new ebooks received by the Library during September. More complete listings for the year can be found on our website’s new books page.
The following is a list of new books received by the Library during September. More complete listings for the year can be found on our website’s new books page
We are excited to unveil a new dedicated bookable pod for new mothers to breastfeed and express milk. Not everyone is comfortable feeding their baby or expressing milk in public, so we have introduced bookable breastfeeding pods in the Library and Richmond building exclusively to support new mothers.
In response to student feedback, hot food can now be eaten in the University Library and microwaves are available in the café area for you to use. Please keep hot food in the café area, clean up after yourself and help us to make this trial a success.
From Monday 30 September 2024, the Library Meeting Room (UL 0.12) will be being used for ID checks for international students. While these checks are carried out, we regret we cannot offer a dedicated postgraduate study space in the Library. I mentioned that this was likely back in June when the old Postgraduate Study Suite was turned into staff offices in preparation for the extension connecting the Library and Student Union to create a new student hub.
