We are continually working to refurbish the Library so that it is as pleasant a place to work in as possible. The next stage of this work is to replace the carpet in Area 1A on the first floor of the Library. This work will begin on 10 June. The work is expected to last for up to three weeks. While this refurbishment work is being carried out (ca. 10-31 May 2019), there will be no access to the:
- Map Library – including the large format scanner
- Library Bloomberg terminals
- Printed books and DVDs with shelfmarks between 346-690
Please plan your work around this upcoming refurbishment work.
There are Bloomberg terminals in the Business School computer rooms, the Map Librarian will still be available on request from 9am – 5pm weekdays, and it will still be possible to reserve, recall and return all books during this period. Any books returned to the Library that would ordinarily be shelved in Area 1A will be temporarily displayed on shelves in or near the Library Atrium. Ebook versions of many books are available to read online and are available through both the Library Catalogue and Discovery Service.
Major subjects affected
The shelfmark range affected includes the following major subjects (this list is not exhaustive):
- Business – including Accounting, Leadership, Marketing, Management (all kinds)
- Criminology
- Education
- Engineering (all kinds) – including Communication systems
- Geography – including GIS, Physical Geography, Social Geography, and Disaster Management
- Health Policy & Services
- Health sciences – including Anatomy, Dentistry, Exercise Science, Medicine, Nursing, Nutrition, Pharmacy, Physiology and Radiography
- Human Resources
- Languages – including English language dictionaries, thesauri, and other reference works
- Law (all books not in the Law Reference Collection with shelfmarks beginning 346-349)
- Linguistics
- Management
- Marketing
- Mathematics – including many books on Statistics
- Penology
- Policing
- Sciences (Astronomy, Biology, Biochemistry, Cartography, Chemistry, Cosmology, Physics)
- Social work – including Social Policy and Social Care
- Surveying (all kinds)
- Tourism
- Typography
Temporary stairwell closure
The central concrete stairwell will close temporarily at the start of the works but will reopen as soon as possible. While this staircase is closed, please use the wooden stairs from the Atrium to reach Areas 1B, 1C, and either the wooden stairs or the concrete stairs beyond the grey doors leading up from the Atrium to reach the second floor. For your own safety, please observe the barricades and keep clear of the building site.
People are a lot like ponds – both reflect without even knowing they are doing it. Unlike ponds, people can work to improve their ability actively to reflect and learn from life experiences – what went well and what you might change if you did it again. The habit of reflective practice helps you get to learn and develop, find better ways to do things, and get to know yourself better, particularly how you learn and what causes you difficulties. This makes you well-placed to overcome those things you once found difficult.
You have very likely heard your body compared to a car engine at some point in your life, probably at school. The analogy is a crude one but useful. Car (like computers, exams and all else that humankind has ever created) work well only when the right things are put into them in the right proportions and kept topped up so that they never run out of anything they particularly need. “Garbage in, garbage out” as the computing saying goes. Cars need fuel that works well with the whole engine, burns smoothly to supply power over a prolonged period of time and leaves no ugly after-effects, while the car also needs plenty of water to keep its radiator working and the engine cool, as well as a few other things that are car-specific – every analogy necessarily breaks down sooner or later and this one broke just now. 
It is vitally important to reward yourself regularly, especially when you are working intensively. Make time each day just for you, to do things you really enjoy. Treat yourself to a good book, a spell of gaming, a scented bubble bath, or a brutal game of squash – whatever’s your thing.
How did your academic year go?
After focusing on one topic after another, even with breaks, the mind can tire. There is only so much that the mind can manage before it starts to collapse under the weight of new knowledge and everything starts to slip and slide around. There are several ways to deal with this, meditation is one, while mindful colouring is another. The importance of colouring is that it uses your mind in an entirely different way, gently, and still inviting you to notice what is happening in the body while you cover – the pressure on the pencil, the texture of the paper, and the act of colouring.
We are all stronger when we support one another because there are lots of us, so even if we each only send one or two tweets, laugh out loud GIFs, uplifting anecdotes, texts to say “hi” or stop and ask how someone’s holding up (or indeed just complain about the British weather), we all know so many people that it is likely everyone will get to get a message from someone every few days and then pay it forward, so that the love keeps on rolling.
“All the world’s strange, except for you and me… and even you’re a little odd.” ~ Anon.
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