Starting a new calendar year by thinking about how you learn is a good step. Warning – this post contains a lot of questions! I recently read an interesting article about being a self-directed distance learner. Studying this way clearly…
Category: Thing of the Day
A round-up of the bizarre and brilliant of the web corralled by the University of Portsmouth Library.
Can studying Business make you stupid?
Well… according to one study, undergraduate Business students (emphatically not students at Portsmouth Business School!) were observed to be less able to think clearly after university a few weeks of university teaching than before. It is suspected this was largely…
“Climate emergency” is OED word of the year in 2019
And the word of 2019 is… “climate emergency”. Well, we could have sworn that was two words but we’re not going to argue with the lexicographers at the Oxford English Dictionary! Accompanying heightened awareness of climate change and its impact…
Enter the Hult Prize Program today!
The world’s biggest student entrepreneurship competition has come to Portsmouth this year. If you are a student at the University of Portsmouth, whatever course you’re doing, and would like to compete in the biggest student entrepreneurship competition to win $1,000,000…
Friday fun
What happens when a faculty librarians fingers are left idle for a moment? They find things like this gem on Reddit – a map of Europe showing the first word of each countries national anthem. Take a peek! If neither the map…
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Join the public library for fun and savings!
Membership of Portsmouth City libraries (the local public library service) is free and you don’t even need to live in Portsmouth to use them. The public library has branches across Portsmouth and Southsea, from North End to Central Southsea. Their…
Talking truth to power
Disinformation is a well-worn path to power and those in power abuse it to maintain themselves amidst controversy. Where then does the ordinary citizen and scholar turn to find the truth amidst a whirlwind of lies, often repeated innocently by…
Shelfmark fishing challenge – we have a winner!
After two days of determined angling, we have a confirmed winner with a formidable top score of 3948! Congratulations to Daniel Kelly who managed to beat tremendously stiff competition to win the Amazon Echo Show 5. We hope you all had…
We come up with New Year’s resolutions, why not for the new academic year, too?
Have you thought about the ‘new (academic) year – new you’ yet? I was reading the Metro paper the other day and an article by Susan Griffin on productivity caught my eye. Here is the resolutions list she devised: Start…
A Narrative for Nora: from the smallest of clues to an international life story
It was small…only around 5cm by 3cm, a little wonky-looking, and greyscale. Hardly the most ostentatious of signals, tucked away from view on the inside cover of a slightly battered looking book written entirely in French. What it was that…
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