Happy holidays!
Today is the last day that library staff will be working until the new term starts on 4 January 2022. We wish you all a very happy holiday and a hopeful new year. Before we go, I just wanted to …
Tag: Christmas
Before you go: my top 5 tips for maximum holiday enjoyment!
The end of term often arrives with an unexpected suddenness that catches many a person unprepared. Particularly if you are leaving Portsmouth over the holidays, going home for Christmas or seeing the sights over the festive season, it can be …
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Book recalls suspended over the Christmas vacation period
Book recalls will be suspended over the Christmas vacation period. From Thursday 2 December, books that are reserved will not be recalled until next term. If you need any books to study over the Christmas vacation that are not also available as …
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Christmas is coming, the seasonal display is already up!
Unsure what the world was going to be like over Christmas, with the Government making decidedly undecided noises about whether unnamed ‘restrictions’ would have to be put in place to protect the NHS, and therefore whether we would even be …
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Happy holidays!
Wishing you all a restful (and/or productive, if you still have a small mountain of coursework to complete for January – don’t worry you won’t be alone!), a very Merry Christmas (if you are into that sort of thing), and …
Christmas (opening times) are coming!
From Saturday 12 December until 3 January, the Library will be operating shorter Christmas vacation opening hours. We will not be open every day over the Christmas period and when we are open, it will be for shorter hours. Things …
Christmas socials during the Christmas closure
This year, UoP Global have produced a Virtual Advent Calendar with prizes to be won, including Amazon vouchers and a Portsmouth Football Club shirt! Some of the advent calendar doors also hold reminders about social events happening over the Christmas …
Get your digital Christmas on!
By this time we usually have a (sustainably sourced) Christmas tree scraping the rafters in the Library Atrium. Sadly a combination of lockdown and Covid Secure safe systems of work has prevented us joining together and manhandling a 13-foot spruce-fir …
It’s Christmas (Nearly!)
Thank you for your lovely Winter messages, hopes and wishes you having been adding to the gorgeous Christmas tree we have up in the Atrium in the Library. We have really enjoyed reading them all. There is still time for …
See you in the new year!
Library staff are heading off to rest and recharge for a few days, starting tomorrow. We’ll be back on Wednesday 2 January. Check our holiday opening times from now until 6 January 2019: 24/7 opening restarts from 8am on Monday 7 …
