What's happening? The university will be moving its remaining activity from the Wheatley campus during the summer vacation. But what is happening to the library? The books, journals and dissertations that are currently held in the Wheatley Library will be transferred to the Headington Library. It’s been a big project at Headington, making space for …
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Brookes Union have surveyed Black and BIPOC students as part of their Mind the Gap campaign. Some of those surveyed noted a lack of diverse content and literature. In response, the Library has strived to deliver more diverse resources - but we need you to tell us how we’ve done, and what we can do …
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Do you have a group project to complete this semester? You might be wondering about the best ways to communicate and share your work within your group. Thankfully you have access to lots of useful tools for collaboration, many of which are covered in the Be Innovative module of the Digital Capabilities for Students course …
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What is academic integrity? Academic integrity is about good academic practice in research, reading and writing, but it is also about how to spot and solve problems with plagiarism and other academic breaches. The Oxford Brookes Academic Integrity course covers the rules of plagiarism but also gives students useful advice on building confidence to avoid …
5th March 2020 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 …
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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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Thursday 7 March was World Book Day and like true librarians, we celebrated it by asking you to submit, via a lovely little bubble card, your favourite book. Over the space of a day, we received nearly 80 completed bubbles and picked up some further suggestions on Twitter and Instagram. What makes a book a …
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 …
Happy New Year! In the run-up to Christmas, we asked you to decorate our Christmas trees by filling out baubles with what you wanted more of and what you found frustrating about using the Library. We had a good response, especially at Headington where nearly 70 baubles were hung on the tree. A whiteboard was …
People who work in libraries love talking to other people who work in libraries about good ideas and good professional practice. And school libraries and school librarians are key to helping pupils learn and succeed, both at school and in later study and life (as the #GreatSchoolLibraries campaign is currently pointing out!) So when I …
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 …
We do like hearing back from users of the Library. It's really helpful to know what works well and what causes frustration. At Headington, we have 'Tell us what you think' forms that are available for anyone to complete. We tend to get a range of comments from good, 'excellent reservation service' and 'thank you …
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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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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 comments are listed below with …
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