New eBooks December 2024
The following is a list of new ebooks received by the Library during December. More complete listings for the year can be found on our website’s new books page.
New Books December 2024
The following is a list of new books received by the Library during December. More complete listings for the year can be found on our website’s new books page.
Happy holidays!
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 …
Vending a little joy alongside the new microwaves
Microwaveable munchables We’re getting great feedback about the microwaves and vending machines available in the Library. Now you can reheat food from ready meals to homecooked wonders in seconds (well, minutes), all for free. Please leave the microwaves clean for …
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An unsettling seasonal tale of ghosts
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.
Bringing the Book Nook to a new home
Our beloved Book Nook has found a new home outside the turnstiles where it is accessible to everyone, including the public, whenever the building is open.
Global Christmas quiz next Thursday (19 Dec)
Global are organising a free quiz with tasty treats over at Sparks Community Centre in Fratton from 6 pm next Thursday 19 December. Global throw a good party, so unless you’ve got a better offer already, be sure to book your place on Eventbrite!
Ebook Central ebooks are being enhanced in late January
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.
It’s Christmas Story Time!
Curl up with a hot chocolate and a seasonal tale from our Outside in World Children’s Books in Translation collection. The main collection can be found by the cafe in the University of Portsmouth Library but we have chosen some …
Disruption to the Library catalogue (Friday 13 December)
A major update to the library catalogue and its dependent systems on Friday 13 December. The vast majority of our electronic resources will be unaffected, but you will lose access to the Library catalogue and services that depend on it for up to 24 hours from 8 am on Friday 13 December.
