One of our most frequently, and urgently, asked questions is here to find the toilets. The library floor plans show the locations of all the library toilets and (nearby) drinking water fountains. Click or tap on the 3D floor plan…
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Gender as accepted fact… gender as myth?
Society has for the longest time held that people can universally be divided along the lines of their anatomical gender. We can see this plainly in the design of toilet blocks and changing rooms that segregate gender. This overly simplistic…
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How close is too close?
In the past you told us that some of the silent areas of the Library were noisier than they should hav been. That’s why we recently restructured the Individual Silent Study zone, grouping several areas together into the side of…
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Happy Hallowe’en. Now imagine life without checking your mobile phone!
‘Tis Hallowe’en, that joyous ancient Pagan/Christian/commercial (take your pick, there seems to be little consensus on it’s origins) spooky festival when people traditionally give each other a friendly fright. In the spirit of Hallowe’en, I would like to put forward…
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Find comfort in the library
Are you missing home? in need of some comfort? Or, just love a bit of nostalgia? In that case pop along to the University Library and take a look at our amazing collection of children’s books. We have a beautiful…
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New eBooks – August 2018
What follows is a list of new electronic books received by the Library during August 2018 ordered by title. More complete details, as well as listings from previous months, are available on our website’s New Books page in the form of downloadable…
New bus route and timetable from 1 August
Following the closure of the Langstone campus and consultation with the Students’ Union (UPSU), the university bus service will take a new circular route and follow a revised timetable from 1 August 2018. You can download the new timetable here.
Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day!
Global Accessibility Awareness Day celebrates all the improvements made to make resources and services available and useful to as many people as possible. All the advances we make in Making resources available in more formats and supporting different ways of…
Reading for Pleasure – Happy days are here again!
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and at this time of year students and staff are particularly under strain busily preparing for exams, completing dissertations and finishing off final submissions. Our brains are crammed with ‘useful’ information, our bodies…
A reminder about copyright
We pay for access to thousands of e-journals, e-books and electronic databases, which you can use for your studies and research. With such a lot of information out there, it can be easy to forget that we all have to…
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