Turner & Paige no.38 Dec. 11th 2015
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Category: Thing of the Day
A round-up of the bizarre and brilliant of the web corralled by the University of Portsmouth Library.
A tale of two libraries
In a world of finite library space and a pressing need to offer all our students the most up to date books to read, we regularly withdraw old editions to replace them with new. Rather than throwing our old, unwanted …
Turner & Paige no.37 Dec. 4th 2015
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Turner & Paige no.36 Nov. 20th 2015
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Turner & Paige no.35 Nov. 13th 2015
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Turner & Paige no.34 Nov. 6th 2015
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How the ink flowed well at Ink:Well
As members of staff, we often feel on the perimeter when it comes to events taking place in our building. We direct students to rooms, let the catering folk in through the security gate with their urns of coffee and …
Turner & Paige no.33 Oct. 29th 2015
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Map projection transitions
An earlier posting (Maps have been lying to you) showed the effect that the Mercator map projection has on the way we perceive the world. The challenge of portraying on a flat surface the essentially spherical shape of our planet …
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 …
