5th March saw the annual World Book Day coincide with University Mental Health Day. To celebrate both themes we asked our users to suggest their favourite ‘feel good’ books. We hoped the concept of ‘feel good’ would be broad enough to encourage a range of titles to be suggested and we weren’t disappointed. ‘Feel good’ …
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The theme for LGBTQ+ History Month 2020 is Poetry, Prose, and Plays. The Library has been keen to showcase its range of resources that might be of interest to LGBTQ+ individuals, or anybody interested in works concerning LGBTQ+ characters. Why do this? Historically, LGBTQ+ people have been a marginalised group. Authors such as Oscar …
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On the evening of 14 October, the Vice Chancellor and I attended the awards ceremony at Guildhall in the City of London. We are invited because the archive of the Booker Prize is held at Brookes in the Library’s Special Collections and Archives. It is always a very enjoyable event and this year was no …
On Wednesday 6 December, Professor Katherine Smart will be giving a public lecture at Oxford Brookes University, including a free tasting session beforehand from Hook Norton Brewery and Toad distillery. The event is free and everyone is welcome to attend - students, staff and members of the public. Professor Katherine Smart’s stellar career brings together …
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Gone are the days when you had to trek into the JHB Library at Headington in order to make a payment for an interlibrary loan or wait for office hours in order to clear your fines. LibrarySearch has now been linked with the University's online payment system so that library charges can be paid online, …
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Come into the library this summer and have a look at our exhibition featuring many of the most important and influential men and women from the 20th century who helped shape our world... Would any of them class themselves as icons?... Now there’s a question.
Students co-operate to save the world on a Friday afternoon in the Library! You may have noticed something strange going on at the back of the Platform on Level 3 of the JHB Library on Friday 29 March… The Library has been collaborating with the award-winning Tabletop Gaming Society (Brookes Union Society of the Year …
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Today (26 February 2019) is the fifth anniversary of the opening of the Headington Library in the John Henry Brookes Building. The former Headington Library (now totally unrecognisable as the Business School) closed for the final time on the evening of Friday 21 February 2014 and immediately the teams of professional book movers started to …
Teachers create reading lists to tell students which are the best books and then students read the books on the list and learn about their subject. That is what reading lists are for - it’s all very simple really! Or is it? To properly address this question we first need to ask some more fundamental …
Special Collections is pleased to present its third annual Library Exhibition. This year’s exhibition features items from our newest collection - The Steve Hare Penguin Books Collection. Steve Hare (1950-2015) was a doctoral student at Oxford Brookes’ Oxford International Centre for Publishing, an author, researcher, journalist, and collector of Penguins. Following his death, Steve’s family …
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We are pleased to announce that our new LR User Group met for the first time this week. Chaired by Professor Anne-Marie Kilday, the group includes representatives from across our faculties and directorates. With the objectives of being a sounding board and critical friend, we look forward to working with our colleagues from across the …
At this time of year we do get a couple of comments about seat bagging in the Library. Most students find it immensely frustrating trying to find a seat only to discover that many spaces have belongings but no person in them! We have tried a number of things to combat hogging: trialling auto-log out of …
The nights are drawing in and exams are approaching, so for Disability History Month we're compiling a Spotify playlist of uplifting tunes to help beat the winter blues. Submit your suggestions on Twitter or Instagram using #BeatTheWinterBlues Tune in, grab a cosy blanket and a cuppa and enjoy! https://open.spotify.com/user/oxfordbrookeslibrary/playlist/3GywrkWfFo1HQOlLsyHnGX?si=PsAWBO5XSLigVvDBgJN5GA -- Jayne Stuart (Graphic Designer)
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