Library News

Hi my name is Oluwapelumi Durojaiye and I have been working as an Edu-Intern with the Library on projects that explore decolonising the curriculum.  I wanted to write this blog post to let you know about a conference which I attended recently where I presented a paper.  The conference was called ‘Decolonising the Academic Library’ […]

Library and Learning Services at Surrey wanted to introduce to you some of the projects that we have been involved in as part of the wider conversations within Higher Education on decolonising and diversifying the curriculum and library collections. We have been involved in several projects for the past 2 years working on diversifying our […]

In the Library, we regularly hold our Library Engagement Forums throughout the year which gives us the chance to meet with you, our user community and hear your ideas, get your feedback and work together to create a service that meets your needs. Over the lockdown period, as with everything else we moved this activity […]

We are pleased to announce that our digital textbook scheme is now live! Over the summer, the University supported a new initiative to provide personal digital copies of some of your most essential texts that you need for your teaching and learning. Our Library e-books sometimes have a limit to the number of people who […]

Since 2018 the Library alongside the SU has been running a student-staff partnership project based around broadening collections in the Library and celebrating the diversity of our student population. The Student Curator project has covered many themes ranging from celebrating Black History Month and LGBT History Month, focusing on Health Learning to Empowering Women.  This […]