MOP (Massively Observed Penguin)
Mass Observation? Sounds fishy to me! But no, it’s not about surveillance, CCTV or Big Brother.
Tag: librarians
Happy National Librarians Day?
According to my “calendar of very important National Days”, today is National Librarians Day. Although officially the nation is the US, any day that celebrates the work of library folk is worth celebrating if you ask me. On Tuesday, you may …
Happy National Library Workers Day (where’s my card?)
In the USA, National Library Workers Day is a day for library staff, users, administrators and others to recognize the valuable contributions made by all library workers. This year it falls today, on Tuesday 14th April. Twelve years ago, the American Library …
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Why the Library is like an Easter egg…
It’s been a quiet week here in the Library. I can’t give you an exact figure for the number of Easter eggs which have been consumed by the Enquiries team, but it’s fair to say it was quite a few. …
How many librarians does it take to make a paper plane?
It started with a tweet. One of those throw-away tweets, stumbled across by accident, that then becomes all-important. I wanted to make an F-15 fighter jet from paper. From one piece of paper.
We’re wearing our hats for #WearAHatDay
#WearAHatDay is the UK’s largest and most famous national brain tumour awareness and fundraising campaign, created by Brain Tumour Research. They run #WearAHatDay as an awareness raising campaign throughout March, which is National Brain Tumour Awareness Month. As our …
Conference success
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 …
