As a health librarian, one of the things which final year and postgraduate students ask me about most often is PICO. But what on earth is PICO? Not, sadly, a […]
School visits to Augustine House Library
Augustine House library receives visits from local schools and colleges throughout the academic year. We love to see the pupils and their teachers exploring the collections for inspiration for a […]
The Dover Methodist Scrapbook, Herbarium Apuleii Platonici and all things Dickensian
This year the library offered two placement opportunities to Applied Humanities: Employability in Practice students – one was digitizing and researching a nineteenth-century scrapbook, and the other was processing and […]
World Book Week: Julia and the Shark
Emily Ing, Primary Education student and Reading for Pleasure Ambassador, explores Julia and the Shark by Kiran Millwood Hargrave to celebrate World Book Day 2022.
War Horses
A notebook belonging to W.B. Maxwell, playwright and novelist, details his time serving in France with the Royal Fusiliers in 1916. As the Regimental Transport Officer, Maxwell lists the names […]
When we were very young
As the university celebrates its diamond jubilee, the library has been uncovering items held in the university archive which tell the story of the university’s early days as a teacher […]
Mark Aguhar : a huge impact for such a short life
Mark Aguhar was a genderqueer/transgendered individual who spent much of their life showing the world that they were who they were and that was good enough; in essence fighting against […]
Crowdsourcing the past
Studying the past is one thing, but do you think you could help contribute to our curation of it? Why not be part of something special during personal development week and contribute to one of the amazing crowdsourcing projects that needs assistance to digitize and share stories of the past.
A Merry Christmas from the Archives
Giving books as presents at Christmas is part of a deep-rooted tradition. Here in the library, we decided to find out more about what people in the past read at […]