Lizzie and I enjoyed exploring the latest exhibition at Portsmouth City Museum: Tricorn: Love it or hate it so I thought I’d refer to some of the books mentioned there. I only have vague memories of the Tricorn from day…
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SummerFest starts on 13 May at Purple Door
Starting on Tuesday, 13 May with a Get That Job Carousel Day and continuing over the summer until 31 August, SummerFest14 is a series of events workshops, courses and opportunities to help you to get the job you want or…
Freegal – Legal Free Music
Portsmouth City Council Library Service is excited to announce that we have launched Freegal- a music streaming and download service. Freegal rhymes with legal, and stands for ‘free and legal’.
Shaping our Future
The Shaping our Future roadshow comes to the Library today, Wednesday and Thursday. You’ll see the stand in the Atrium – you can’t miss it! Take a look at the art work developing on the wall, come along to a…
Shaping our Future
Students and staff around the University are being invited to take part in ‘Shaping Our Future’ – an exercise that looks at where we might be in fifteen years time. With themes such as ‘our students and their expectations’, ‘our…
World Book Night 2012
Today, or should I say tonight, is World Book Night. World Book Night is a celebration of books and reading which sees tens of thousands of people give books as gifts with their communities to spread the love of reading.…
A History of Council Housing in Portsmouth
Portsmouth has a long history of council house provision. For example, there are early examples along Curzon Howe Road in Portsea, where a memorial stone laid in October 1912 can still be seen. This story timeline, commissioned by Portsmouth City…
Dickens’ Birthday
It’s the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’ birthday today – even Google is celebrating with one of their occasional doodles (see below). We won’t try to link to all the free versions of Dickens’ books which you can download for…
University of Portsmouth art collection
The BBC recently featured three of the paintings we have here in the Library: http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/galleries/locations/the-university-library-3565 Why not come and visit and view the many others that decorate the walls. There’s a handout on the subject at the reception desk if…
Flying Monsters 3D
Here is a film that has won a BAFTA and an award for Best Science Programme at the Association of International Broadcasting. It also had a team of palaeontologists from the University of Portsmouth that acted as advisors to the…
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