Here’s something to make your weekend. Our year of free art continues, with the British Library following the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art in releasing millions of images free for anyone to use online under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0)…
Category: Thing of the Day
A round-up of the bizarre and brilliant of the web corralled by the University of Portsmouth Library.
Serials, stamps and nostalgia: remembering Pablo’s tour of the back room
There’s an awful lot of book and ebook ordering going on at this time of year, with lecturers returning from a well earned break to update the online reading lists for their units and my word, there are a lot of those; most units…
Funny fake posters hit California
From the serious to the ridiculously funny, fake news to fake fliers (because every subject has its silver lining and it is the role of art and comedy to redeem the human condition). Comedian Is Covering California In Fake Flyers and They’re…
Reading between the headlines: from fake news to Firstnews
Parody, deception, the manipulation of information, unethical news reporting, and ‘alternative facts’ are more and more prevalent as the war for hearts and minds heats up worldwide and politicians and spin doctors seek to play on our basic instincts and hardwired psychological tendencies.…
Life: illustrated. Beatrix Potter, born today in 1866
Today in 1866, famous naturalist and author-illustrator Beatrix Potter was born. Although she was a skilled naturalist, who presented a work on mycology (the study of fungi – toadstools and moulds) to the Royal Society, Beatrix Potter is one of the…
Scottish bronze age settlement modeled in modern Lego
A new Lego installation in Caithness, Scotland, is helping children to understand local archaeology. It also shows that if you can imagine it you can probably model it in Lego. The number of bespoke Lego bricks and other components that are…
Bikes go free this summer on the Gosport Ferry
If you are a keen cyclist and travel in on the Gosport Ferry, make sure you make use of the “Bikes Go Free” promotion the ferry operator is running again this summer. For the third year running, you can transport bicycles across…
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Citizen science reshapes cosmology
Life ends, sad but true. It is the way every species rids itself of the spectre of catastrophic overpopulation in any species given to reproduce. Not all do, and those that never have children tend to live for thousands of years,…
Turner & Paige no.74 July 24th 2017
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Open Access room PC refresh
We are updating the PCs in several of our computer rooms as part of the ongoing refurbishment programme that keeps all our facilities as reliable, fresh and powerful as you would expect from a leading library.
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