It’s been awfully quiet without you – so come on, tell us what you think!
Welcome back and a warm welcome to our new students!
Over the summer we’ve missed you here at the library. We have particularly missed reading the thoughts and the ideas you add to the Online Suggestion Box found on the Library homepage, and through the postcards you post to us in the postbox on the ground floor (but please don’t put stamped letters in the the postbox, it’s not a real one!).
If you didn’t know, or hadn’t realised (I can’t believe that’s possible) – your Library is driven by student led change. We listen to your ideas and wherever practical or possible, we act upon them. For example, last year you asked for cosy blankets for long, cold nights of study and we gave you blankets (sorry about the boring grey colour). Its down to you that we also kept the study rooms open to create extra space during busy periods in the library; and due to your requests, the ground floor was refurbished and fitted with air-conditioning to make the library more comfortable in summer. Your suggestions make a real difference.
On the Library Website, you can read the suggestions made by others and you can add your voice to theirs too. You can even comment on our feedback. Good or bad, we love hearing what you have to say, and often you make us smile – especially when you say nice things like “just keep being you!”
Many people find the library surprisingly large but as soon as you become familiar with what is where it will begin to feel like a second home. To help you settle in and find everything you need, we have produced a 
The Autumn Term at the University of Portsmouth has always been my favourite. It’s when we get to meet all of our new students, and the excitement in the air is palpable. The Autumn Term brings with it that “first day at school” feeling, albeit on a more grown-up scale, although to me many of our first years appear as wide-eyed as those five-year-olds on their first day at infant school and I’m betting that everyone starting now has a new pencil case and backpack too, even if none of them would ever admit it! 
You would imagine that if you record yourself playing music that is long out of copyright, J S Bach for example, on the piano in your bedroom, and post it to your YouTube channel, that no-one is going to accuse you of breaching copyright. And you would be right. That said, copyright is no longer policed by people but by AIs reducing performances to complex digital signatures and comparing them.
A big, warm library welcome to all our new students and all those rejoining us next week!
Your are invited to the Artfilms Weekend Film Festival! Twice a month Artfilms open access to selected videos from across their collections, showcasing films from a variety of disciplines, producers and cultures. The videos are released on a Thursday and are free to watch until the following Tuesday.
Watch films from the Artfilms Weekend Film Festival for free until tomorrow night (midnight on Tuesday 4 September)
What could creatives and academics learn about from clown eggs? Quite a lot, it turns out…
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