2023 News

Here’s an overview of what happens in the library over December and January, and how it affects you. The information below is in chronological order.

Our Tree of Wishes is back in the Morrell lobby area, this year supporting two local charities: SASH and Changing Lives. 302 gifts is the total from last year we're trying to beat!

Earlier in November the British Library (BL) experienced a cyber incident, which has meant a major technology outage which is still ongoing at the time of writing. This has implications for York staff and students who use BL services or have set up a British Library account in the past: please read on for important advice on what to do next.

The first complete academic history of Argentina’s Billiken, the world’s longest-running children’s magazine, is out now.

We're delighted to announce a new 'read and publish' deal with Bristol University Press (BUP), a leading social science publisher.

We unearthed some silent footage from a 1969 library welcome video, and asked students and staff to remix it into a Halloween film trailer. The winning entry was by Erin McLeod, a Film Studies student from the School of ACT, and it is uploaded below in all its glory.

Calling all horror-buffs, film-makers, and creative students! We have a competition for you to make a library horror trailer for Halloween...

Keen to explore the world of emerging technology? Maybe you have some creative ideas but unsure where to start and what tools to use? The Creativity Lab, based in the University of York Library, offers a range of events and training sessions including fully funded introductory workshops providing opportunities to get to grips with new technology.

White Rose University Press are hosting an event to celebrate Hidden Depths: The Origins of Human Connection, on Wednesday 25 October.

We spend millions of pounds each year getting York students and staff through paywalls, and there are several ways in to the amazing resources we make available online. None are better or worse than the other; they're just different, and you'll need all of them at different times. Read on and in three minutes' time you'll know exactly where to start from now on, when finding material for your assignments.

We have not one but TWO new tours available for you. Whether you're new to York or you've been here for ages but want to know more about our services, going on one or both of the tours will give you lots of useful #UoYTips.

This summer we have had two wonderful student curators working with us to develop and promote the diversity of our collections as part of our See Yourself on the Shelf scheme. Their new webpages and display in the Morrell are now ready to view!

The Open Research team welcomes three postgraduate researchers, Kirralise Hansford (Psychology), Luqman Muraina (Interdisciplinary Global Development) and Melissa Kays (Archaeology), in a newly-created 12-month role as Graduate Engagement Leads for Open Research.

In response to your feedback, we’re updating the terms and conditions for our Family Study Room. This includes a new option to bring a nominated guest with you when you visit.

We have analysed all of the results from the Library Survey which we conducted last year and we’re now ready to share our action plan with you for how we’ll respond to your feedback.

The Morrell Library & IT Help Desk and our Virtual Help Desk (email, chat and phone) are changing their hours to 10am - 4pm, Monday to Friday. The King’s Manor Library Help Desk hours will remain the same as they are now.

The library services currently offered at Ron Cooke Hub, including the Book Drop and 24/7 Study Area, will move to the Law & Management building from 24 July.

The Library has two brilliant Student Curators working with us over the summer, developing our collections to platform Eastern European voices and Transgender voices.

If you're leaving the City for the vacation, please either return your borrowed books and other items first, or take them with you to post back if necessary. Books can still be recalled by other users during the summer, although you'll now have 14 days to return them.

If you're an undergraduate or postgraduate about to leave the University, first of all: huge congratulations! Second of all, please return all the items you have on loan from the library, by June 23rd.

The three-year agreement, negotiated by Jisc on behalf of the UK Higher Education sector, will support authors to publish open access in more than 2,500 Springer Nature journals (including Nature, Nature research and Palgrave titles).

The Common Assessment Period is upon us! Here are some top tips for getting through it.

24/7 Library opening returns for the Common Assessment Period, at the main library on Campus West.

We are excited to announce the launch of our brand new website, designed with input from both students and staff. Our focus on UX (user experience) has involved interviewing students and incorporating many of your suggestions, resulting in a completely rebuilt site from the ground up, more useful and user-friendly than ever before.

The internal lift in Fairhurst is being replaced, with works expected to last 7 weeks (until May 2023).

The third LibInspo competition concluded on Wednesday 1 March 2023 with its final event at the Bowland Auditorium in the Berrick Saul Building. The day was a huge success in many ways, but in particular because of the outstanding presentations from students.

Digital Creativity Week is a week-long event for students to work with digital and creative technologies, explore archival material and research, and develop skills, culminating in the creation of digital artefacts for an exhibition celebrating the University of York campus and collections.

The University has today released a new Research Publications and Open Access policy. The new policy, which will apply to research articles submitted from 1 March 2023, will allow researchers to exercise greater sharing and reuse rights over their own research.