LGBT+ History Month 2021 is drawing to a close, but our engagement with queer history, media, literature, and creators is always ongoing. LGBTQIA+ History is part of our wider history, and is relevant and important for everyone, regardless of whether or not you consider yourself part of the LGBTQIA+ community. As a library we may be a little biased, but we think that a great … [Read more...]
SGS LRC – Important Updates and Information – New Academic Year, New Us!
September is upon us already, can you believe it? And with the New Academic Year, there's a New Us! Well, not a new us -- all of your beloved old LRC Staff are still kicking happily around, waiting to help you with your learning-resource-based needs. But! due to the pandemic we do have some new opening hours, a new way of borrowing and returning books, and some new information … [Read more...]
World Book Day 2020
This Thursday (the fifth of March) is WORLD BOOK DAY!! The World Book Day organisers have put together a "Writes Of Passage" list - a list of 50 books that young people across the country have chosen as The Fifty Books That Will Change Your Life! We have a good number of these books across our LRCs, so come on over and borrow something which will inspire you, motivate you, … [Read more...]
Safer Internet Day 2020
Across SGS College today we are promoting Safer Internet Day 2020. This year, the focus of Safer Internet Day is the theme "Free To Be..." - Free to be creative, free to be supportive, free to be supportive, free to be yourself! For more information on using the internet more safely, and on how you can contribute to making the online communities that you interact with more … [Read more...]
Welcome Back – Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! No, wait, scratch that, Happy New Decade! We at the LRC can only hope that this decade proves as intellectually and creatively exciting as the 1920s were... Could you be the 2020s' author to out-write the 1920s' F. Scott Fitzgerald? The artist to rival Georgia O'Keefe? The musician to swing harder than Duke Ellington!? Or perhaps you might revolutionize the … [Read more...]