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 …

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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 …

The new Library blog Read more »

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 …

Conference success Read more »

Occasionally one of our website visitors comments on the number of tabs/windows the Library website creates during a session.  In some situations it can seem overwhelming, but there is  method in our madness …

The introduction of self-service kiosks a year ago has cut the time you spend waiting to borrow and return books.  Self-service has proved popular, with 83.53% of all books borrowed and returned each month through self-service kiosks in 2013.  If …

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