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Are you a young (between 18 to 35 years old) and dedicated conservationist committed to protecting wild species?

Do you combine passion with action to create concrete results in nature conservation?

If so, Future For Nature is offering a prize to help you your individual work!

✨ Learn more and apply: https://futurefornature.org/future-for-nature/apply-for-future-for-nature/

⌛ Application deadline: 10 pm (UK time) on Sunday 23 August 2026

Save lives with a quick snap. IOP Publishing are looking for - a quick, creative phone snap is perfect.

The winner takes home a surprise prize, revealed by IoP in the Autumn. More importantly, IOP have promised to donate £5 to Cardiac Risk in the Young for every entry, funding heart screening to prevent young sudden cardiac death, so even if you don't win, your photo will help fund work that saves lives.

Email your photo to [email protected] before midnight on 21 September 2026.

Terms and conditions are available at: https://comms.iop.org/c/1WbCBWuvhnXAAzsb2w0yfdhc5h

Discovery the fascinating history of deafness and the deaf community - a tale of oppression, resistance, hope, creativity and finally vindication, from the work of History student Megan Conway - check out the exhibition now on display in the Library or read the text of the exhibition on the Library blog at https://library.port.ac.uk/liblog/deafness-silence-and-communication-before-modern-education

Deafness, silence, and communication before modern education   A history of people without hearing For centuries, Deaf people were misunderstood by hearing society. In early modern Europe, speech was often treated as proof of intelligence, reason, morality, and even humanity itself. Those who could not hear or speak were frequently excluded from education, r...

Libraries typically hold more surprises than you might expect. Take for example this gloriously lavish book of animal portraits, open at our favourite - "Sheep with a pearl earing". Take a look and tell us yours. This particular book is tucked away in the Outside In World collection, between the Library café and vending machines.

Send us a photo of any weird and wonderful works you find on your library travels!

is a constant in life, so we've written a very quick guide to staying in uncertain times over on the Library blog
https://library.port.ac.uk/liblog/staying-hopeful-in-uncertain-times

A great couple of weeks here in Portsmouth, congratulations to all our wonderful graduates! It’s been a pleasure to support you in your learning journeys from freshers to flourishing graduates. We hope you think back on your time in the University Library fondly.

If you are staying around after graduation, why not join the University Library as an external member? It’s free, lets you into the building whenever we are open to use our guest wifi, and even lets you borrow a few books. What’s not to like? 🙂

Chat with a librarian online about joining the Library or head on over to the External Membership page on the Library website for details.


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Congratulations to all our wonderful graduates! It's been a pleasure to support you in your learning journeys from timid freshers to flourishing graduates. We hope you think back on your time in the University Library fondly. If you are staying around after graduation, why not join the University Library for life as an external member?

It's free, lets you into the building whenever we are open to use our guest wifi, and even lets you borrow a few books. What's not to like? :)

Chat with a librarian online about joining the Library for life or head on over to the External Membership page on the Library website for details: https://library.port.ac.uk/using-the-library/library-membership/external-members

Discover the history of the Deaf community and how rhetoric and the oppression of diversity for the convenience of the majority for centuries won out over scientific reason and condemned Deaf people to the fringes of society, disenfranchised and disabled, until their longstanding resistance won out and both Deaf identity and manual sign language became recognised
https://library.port.ac.uk/liblog/deafness-silence-and-communication-before-modern-education

Art and Architecture Complete is changing its name to Art Complete from 1 August.

Nothing else will change - the look and feel, search tools, content and everything else you have come to know and love remains the same, they are just shortening the name to make it more snappy and trendy.