New Books June 2024
The following is a list of new books received by the Library during June. More complete listings for the year can be found on our website’s new books page.
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New Acquisition: Designers & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons has become very familiar across the decades since it first appeared in 1974. However, it’s not the only roleplaying game by a long chalk and in the last half century there have been a multitude of D&D clones as well a vast variety of other games and genres. From science fiction (such as Traveller) to gothic horror (e.g. Call of Cthulhu); from superheroes to secret agents, there’s almost certainly something to suit any interest.
Keeping track of all that history has been made somewhat easier by a recent University of Portsmouth Library acquisition, Designers & Dragons by Shannon Appelcline and published by Evil Hat Productions. This four-volume set follows the history of games and publishers is an immensely readable and engaging.
Taking pride in LGBTQ+ authors
Some of our greatest thinkers and authors have been LGBTQ+. They have offered refreshingly different perspectives on everyday life and many wrote stories and essays that shared their intersectional lived experience as LGBTQ+ women and or people of the global …
Library donations form the foundation of a new African university library collection
The University Library recently donated a large collection of our older books to a new University in Nigeria, the Cosmopolitan University in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria. This new North African university’s Vice-Chancellor is Prof. Carl Adams, former professor of …
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A van full of pleasure
The Public Library tuk-tuk book van will pull up outside the University Library this Wednesday (15 May) to bring a selection of fiction books and sign up new customers for free as part of Feel Good Fest! Stop by between …
New Books April 2024
The following is a list of new books received by the Library during April. More complete listings for the year can be found on our website’s new books page.
New Books March 2024
The following is a list of new books received by the Library during March. More complete listings for the year can be found on our website’s new books page.
Celebrating Global Storytime at the University Library
Yesterday, the University Library hosted its first-ever Global Storytime Event. We invited parents and carers to bring their children into the University Library, where two of our talented students read to them from a selection of illustrated children’s books from the Outside In World collection of children’s books in translation. After this, the children were invited to participate in an art activity, colouring and drawing images inspired by the books.
I am so grateful to our talented students Abigail and Santosh, who engaged the children so effectively, and to all the parents and children who participated. A wonderful time was had by all and the artworks created by the children were particularly fun and entertaining.
Thank you for your book suggestions!
We were thrilled with the way you engaged on World Book Day. Many of you are clearly well read and you made such interesting recommendations for things others should read. I’ve summarised the list of suggestions below so you can see what everyone else is recommending that you read! It’s certainly a varied and interesting list. What’s even better is that we have quite a few of these in the Library already that you can either read right now online or borrow in print!
Promoting Black voices in science fiction
We are always looking for new ways to make learning more fun and interesting. To that end, one of our resident sci-fi enthusiasts has pulled together a reading list of science fiction books we have in stock that were all written by People of the Global Majority.
