New Books – April 2022
The following is a list of books received during April 2022 ordered by classmark. More complete details, and listings from previous months, are available on our website’s New Books page as downloadable Excel spreadsheets.
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More ways to get hold of books
Sometimes you just want the books you know you need without any fuss or hassle. We’ve got you covered: you can now ask library staff to leave books you choose for you to collect or even have books posted to where you live.
Beyond reading lists: finding books and ebooks
With almost 390,000 books and over half a million ebooks to choose from, it is handy that you can find everything you want quickly and easily using just the library catalogue.
Out on an Island
Lauded by LGBTQ+ celebrities from activist Peter Tatchell to author Patrick Gale, the book includes a diverse range of perspectives and topics from a historian’s perspective on the scarcity of recorded LGBTQ+ history to a summary of local newspaper representation of LGBTQ+ issues over the past 120 years, a celebration of the Island’s leading LGBTQ+ heroes and heroines over the past century, as well as critical discussions of the development and impact of the infamous Section 28 and of suicide amongst LGBTQ+ people, pairing factual historical and journalistic research with reflections on personal experience and verbatim oral history extracts from the residents of the Isle of Wight.
Finding library things
Once you have overcome your apprehension about visiting a library that is many times larger than the one in your old school or college, the next questions that cross most people’s minds in some order are “How do I find the things on my reading lists”, “Where are my books”, and “Tell me more about these strange things you call ebooks”.
Rest easy. We’ve got you covered.
Picture your subject
Much of the time you will be using reading lists to find the books and ebooks you need to read but what happens when you want to find books on a particular topic, or just want to browse all the …
April’s book display from our Rare Books Collection
Our NFWB collection inspired Havant College textile students to make art. Their work is exhibited near a complemental display of books from our Rare Books Collection. Looking at both displays it is not easy to see which came first, the …
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New Books – March 2022
The following is a list of books received during March 2022 ordered by classmark. More complete details, and listings from previous months, are available on our website’s New Books page as downloadable Excel spreadsheets.
HSDC College students inspired by our new Near and Far World Books Collection
The Near and Far World Books collection of illustrated children’s books is inspiring, and it certainly inspired the A-level students from Havant and South Downs College, whose work is currently displayed beside the books that inspired them.
New Books – February 2022
The following is a list of new books received in the Library during February 2022 ordered by classmark. More complete details, as well as listings from previous months, are available on our website’s New Books page in the form of downloadable Excel …
