The PGM Ambassadors have created a fabulous display in the Heritage Hub display space, just outside the Park Building café. If you are in Portsmouth, I thoroughly recommend checking it out! For those of you learning at a distance, you can view much of the display material on the Library website. It’s definitely worth a look!
The Holocaust proved what can happen given the right conditions, with a compliant people under the sway of a demagogue. It reminds us of the ever-present threat of tyranny, discrimination and persecution that we must resist every day. It is up to each of us to challenge language, assumptions and behaviours that have no place in an inclusive society.
A lot of lecturers and librarians then asked what was going to happen to all the links pointing to specific chapters/pages of these ebooks, because most reading lists rely on deep linking to work. EBSCO thought about this briefly, then came back to reassure everyone that they are going to make sure all these deep links continue to work after the change. This has meant that the introduction of the epub format ebooks has been delayed by a few weeks.
NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight would like to understand your experiences and views on how they can improve local autism and ADHD assessment services. Please help them by completing the survey if: About the survey Click here to take the Autism and …
Evaluating local autism/ADHD diagnostic pathways Read more »
Come late late January, Ebook Central will be moving from using pdf to epub format ebooks. This will make these ebooks easier to read and navigate, display better on more devices, and allow publishers to build interactive audio and video into their devices.
Happy Disability History Month 2024!
Spanning the period including International HIV/AIDS Day, International Day of People with Disabilities, and International Human Rights Day, Disability History Month seeks to redress the severe and entrenched inequalities experienced by all those with disabilities, including people who develop illnesses as diverse as cancer and HIV, who are neurodiverse, or develop mental health problems.
The Film and Media Research Group (School of Film, Media, and Creative Technologies) is delighted to welcome director Arlen Harris to facilitate a screening of Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Know (Daniyal Harris-Vajda and Arlen Harris, 2023). …
Film screening this Wednesday – ‘Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Know’ Read more »
Award winning children’s book publisher Lantana have just announced that The Invisible Story has been nominated for the Carnegie Medal 2025 in the illustration category, which is fantastic news for this wonderful book. The Invisible Story was the subject of our recent exhibition relating …
The Invisible Story nominated for prestigious award Read more »
One of the ongoing concerns about awareness months is that awareness and effort to undo prejudice and discrimination is needed every month of the year and not just the one where it receives special focus. So how can we help make racism history?
Author of ground breaking novels that explore themes of African culture and its wilful debasement and displacement by colonialism, Achebe lectured worldwide co-founded and directed Nigerian publishing houses won the Man Booker International Prize and Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize and received honorary degrees from over 30 universities worldwide.
