Back in May, I shared my visit to the RIBA Library explaining that if you haven’t been, you need to go soon before the building is closed for a lengthy retrofit to ensure its future. Well, if you haven’t made it, RIBA has …
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Greta Friggens, CCI Faculty Librarian, tells us of her trip to RIBA headquarters in London, exploring the rare books and splendid collections in their library.
This month we have taken some of our wonderful Outside In World Children’s Books in Translation collection out of the library to a fantastic event organised by our Global team here at Portsmouth University. Also at the event were Hive …
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.
Saturday 6th February is National Libraries Day. Hurrah! All week we’ve been asking our users to recommend their favourite books using a board in the library atrium. There are an interesting selection on there so far, ranging from Jackie Collins …
In a world of finite library space and a pressing need to offer all our students the most up to date books to read, we regularly withdraw old editions to replace them with new. Rather than throwing our old, unwanted …
For those of you who love archives and libraries and enjoy visiting museums and art galleries, this may be the website for you. If you like finding out about forthcoming exhibitions (and anything archaeological and historical) see http://www.culture24.org.uk/home. It’s partly …
Pablo here! Part-time journalist, full-time penguin. After spending the past few months helping out in University of Portsmouth Library I began to wonder how all the new books arrived here. I always assumed they were printed in the back room …
Mass Observation? Sounds fishy to me! But no, it’s not about surveillance, CCTV or Big Brother.
