To mark World Book Day (7th March) and International Women’s Day (8th March), Archives and Special Collections is showcasing books from our holdings written by women, as well as highlighting some of the women who have links to Leicester and its University. The books shown here range in date from the nineteenth century to the […]
We have joined forces with Loughborough University and De Montfort University to celebrate Open Research Week 2024 (26 Feb – 1 March). A series of online talks promotes the practice of openly sharing and re-using research-related materials, for both education and research. Included are a range of disciplines, research life-cycle stages and experiences. All sessions […]
The latest research skills class run by the Library are now being advertised on MyPGR . They are open to all research students at the University of Leicester. Highlights include: This term all these sessions will run online via Teams. If you can’t make a session, there will be recordings available via Research Essentials Online […]
Please note that this post contains content relating to suicide and the Holocaust. If you are affected by this topic, please be aware of our available support information for students and support services in the community. Saturday 27th January is both the International Day in Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust and the UK’s national Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD). […]
Guest post by Jess Pascal, student volunteer. Hello, my name is Jess Pascal and I have been volunteering in the archives for the last two months. My task has been to write descriptive summaries of Students’ Union handbooks to make them easier to find in the catalogue. It’s been a really interesting task – reading […]
Funded by UKRI? Planning to produce a monograph, book chapter or edited collection? Join the Library Research Services team for a refresh on the latest changes to the UKRI Open Access policy for books, and to hear how Leicester authors can access the funds and advice available to them. When: Tuesday 9 Jan 2024, 12 […]
What if we could trust the ground under our feet? Museums as spaces of rootedness and response-ability Our friends at the journal Museological Review have a new Call for Paper, which we would like to share with you. The submission deadline for abstracts/proposals has been extended to: Monday, January 29 2024. Sometimes it seems like the […]
To mark UK Disability History Month, which falls between 16th November and 16th December, Archives and Special Collections are showcasing items from our holdings which shed light on these often hidden histories. / Our collections span a wide time period and their content can contain language and terminology reflecting contemporary attitudes that today may be […]
The 2023 Mercian collaboration conference was hosted at the University of Birmingham Exchange conference centre, in September 2023. The theme of the conference was ‘Putting change into action: development, diversity and drive‘ and two LLS University of Leicester (UoL) colleagues, Alex Marshall (Content Discovery Manager) and Sheree Dewey (Content Services Manager) were both first time […]
The theme for WPDP2023 (2 November) is Digital Preservation: A Concerted Effort. This post is a write-up of an online talk to celebrate the day. It expands on the Library and Records Management’s wish to embed sustainable practices in their roles, explore efforts being made by the sector and examines how we can preserve files […]
