Stars in the Aisles
Attended the preview of a fun exhibition in Eldon last night, Stars in the Aisles: A History of the Cinema Usherette. We were served ice-cream by an usherette and there was plenty of popcorn to go around too! Eva Balogh, …
Architects’ drawings of your new Library space
In a recent post we unveiled the plans showing the added benefits you will be able to enjoy from next Autumn. Here are the architects’ images of what the ground floor of the Library will look like after the remodelling.
The Web is 25 Today
Today is the 25th anniversary of Sir Tim Berners-Lee submitting a paper entitled “Information Management: A Proposal” which served as the basis for what we all now know as the World Wide Web. But in the early ’90s, the early …
Get up to speed with online reading lists
Looking forward to explaining to Creative Technologies staff why online reading lists are important for their students. This takes place on Wednesday 12 March at 13.00 in Eldon 0.20. I’m sure any member of staff in CCi would find it …
Shaping our Future
Students and staff around the University are being invited to take part in ‘Shaping Our Future’ – an exercise that looks at where we might be in fifteen years time. With themes such as ‘our students and their expectations’, ‘our …
Your Library transformed
The University Library is pleased to announce a major investment in the building which will refurbish and remodel the ground floor of the Library. You can view the architects’ drawings and annotated projection of the new Library ground floor online …
Information from every source and for every purpose
Up until your final year project/dissertation, the many printed and online resources you need will all be available from our own collections. Sometimes final year research projects and postgraduate research requires access to such specialised information that we could not …
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New Sherlock Holmes exhibit in the Library
Calling all fans of Sherlock Holmes! Following on from the Sherlock Holmes themed Library presence at Freshers’ Fair, there is now an attractive display of Sherlock Holmes novels and Victoriana in the Library exhibition space beside the comfortable seating area …
The new Library blog
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 …
Conference success
At the forthcoming Academic and Research Libraries Group annual conference the University of Portsmouth Library will be represented by three papers : Annushka Donin on digitisation Anne Worden on reading lists Roisin Gwyer on publishing trends in a library journal …
