Earlier in October we hopped on board the Libraries Week bandwagon and offered a range additional activities that might provide five minutes relief from essays and assignments. We provided activities ranging from grown-up colouring in pictures to zentangles (structured pattern drawings) to jigsaw puzzles and fiction freebies. We also created a new (small) space that …
Continue reading Wordsearch, puzzles and other wellbeing things
At the end of last semester we asked you to provide some tips for first year students. We had some great responses from across all the sites. Some were highly practical ('read the books') while others were more esoteric ('Pain is temporary, pride is forever'). In general the tips you provided broke down into broad …
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Delivery from the Easter Bunny We asked students at Headington, Wheatley and Harcourt Hill to fill in postcards saying: Dear Easter Bunny, I’d love it if the Library could… The feedback we received was fabulously varied and we got excellent responses from across the three sites. (Swindon feedback coming soon!). The general themes of the …
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