A round-up of the bizarre and brilliant of the web corralled by the University of Portsmouth Library.
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!
7 February is Charles Dickens Day, when we celebrate Portsmouth’s most famous Victorian author. Born to a Victorian Portsmouth in 1812, the son of a naval payroll clerk, Charles Dickens was prodigiously industrious and despite an interrupted schooling, enjoyed a …
Whether you are looking to experience lives you will never live, uncover astonishing new worlds of the imagination, keep up with your hobbies, learn about the world beyond academia, listen to an audiobook while out for a run, or you are into browsing digital magazines on the bus, the public library service has something for you.
29 January marks the start of the Chinese Year of the Snake in the popular interpretation of the Chinese Zodiac. The Chinese calendar is a cyclical lunisolar calendar that still holds great cultural and religious significance in many Far Eastern cultures. One of the biggest celebrations of the Chinese year, celebrated by a series of festivities rooted in Chinese folklore, such as fireworks and firecrackers.
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.
Let the University Library’s Outside in World: Children’s Books in Translation collection inspire you to make your own zine to take away. Join us for a zine-making workshop as part of BookFest 2025. The event is open to everyone – …
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 …
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We wish you a very happy Festive Season and a Happy New Year! Rest well, and we will see you all for the next exciting instalment of university life after Christmas. Library staff will begin to return to work from …
Folklore, religions, and mythologies speak of many kinds of ghosts. Usually, at this time of year, in the run up to Christmas, I can be found blogging about the three ghosts of Christmas past, present and future in Charles Dickens’ Christmas morality tale “A Christmas Carol”. This year, with assignment deadlines sometimes looming on the far side of the holidays, I wanted to warn you of the dangers of another kind of ghost – the ghost writer.
