As deadlines and exams fast approach, an age-old problem will soon flare up once again. And as ever, the divisive issue will anger some and annoy others. Before too long the Library will see students packed in tightly, with inevitable …

“Beach towels at dawn” or “musical chairs”? Read more »

Dear Santa, I’ll be going home from Uni for Christmas, but I have deadlines at the beginning of January. I’m torn – I want to enjoy my time at home with friends and family, but I know I should be …

Dear Santa… Read more »

I wanted to add my research monograph: “Fish I have known and loved, an anthology of Pinterest” into the University research repository so you could all read it, but I was told that a profound love of mackerel and a life …

Pablo in P&M – PURE research Read more »

This year the Library has provided access to 3,946 new e-books and 661 databases and made them available on Discovery and the library catalogue.  All this requires people to make sure the “metadata” is all present and correct.

The retro phone box has gotten some interest already but did you know you can use it to make free internal telephone calls to anywhere on campus?  You only need dial the last four digits of the number (the “extension”).  …

Not just a pretty red box! Read more »

As the end of the academic year approaches our students are thinking ahead to their departure from Portsmouth, of leaving their student houses or rooms in Halls, and making the most of the long summer ahead. Our finalists will be …

The adventure begins… Read more »

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 …

The new Library blog Read more »

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 …

Celebrating a year of self-service Read more »