Refresh, Recharge, Reset Week (20–24 April) 🍎 is a wellbeing initiative supporting our University community, students and staff. We’re offering activities to help you pause, look after your wellbeing, and feel balanced and energised.
Book sessions via this form: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
image of journals in Curzon library
Looking for old magazines and newspapers to use for moodboards, collages or paper mache?
We've put up a small discarded journals section at Curzon Library for you to browse and take for free!
#BCUlibrary #upcycling
Library display for International Women's Day
Thanks to the BCU Women’s Society for creating such a wonderful display to celebrate International Women’s Day #IWD2026 #BCULibrary
poster promoting Pomodoro study session on Wednesday 4th march at curzon library at 2pm
Join us at Curzon Library for a Pomodoro Study Session! We’ll work in focused 25‑minute bursts with short breaks to help you stay on track, get motivated, and make real progress on your coursework.
Come study with us — your future self will say thank you! #pomodoro #BCUlibrary
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Ramadan Mubarak to all observing this month. BCU Library & Learning Resources wishes you a peaceful and joyful Ramadan. Check out our educational books on Ramadan in the Benjamin Zephaniah Building.
📚 Academic staff!
New to the university or need a quick refresher? Join our online Resource List Training sessions.
We’ll cover:
✨ Creating and updating lists
✨ Linking it to Moodle
✨ Copyright basics
Book via the library website: libcal.bcu.ac.uk/calendar/lib...
BCU Curzon Building the background, in the foreground are rows of hedges covered in a light dusting of snow.
📢 CLOSED
All BCU Buildings, including Libraries are closed today due to the snow 🌨️
We'll keep you updated of when the Libraries will be reopening.
If you need Library help please connect to us via 24/7 chat www.bcu.ac.uk/library
A print out of how to create a Flying Crane using Origami, sparkly Origami paper, bookmarks, and a poster for the pomodoro group in the background
Pomodoro Study Session is beginning in Curzon's Greenhouse!
Using the Pomodoro technique, where we study for 25 minutes and break for 5.
We have origami paper to fold in the breaks! 🐦
We're here 2pm-4pm 🍅 spaces are filling up fast!
#BCULibraryandLearningResources #BCULibrary #librarysky
Text reads - Pomodoro Study Group, The Greenhouse, Curzon library. Next Session: Wednesday 10th December 2pm - 4pm. Just turn up with your work and we'll provide the rest. Boost your focus, take mindful breaks, study smart! All Students Welcome, Wednesday December 10th, 2PM-4PM, C001 Curzon Library. Find our more about the Pomodoro Technique https://www.bcu.ac.uk/exams-and-revision/time-management-tips/pomodoro-technique. hosted by BCUSU and Library and Learning Resources. Illustration of a woman sitting on a pomodoro timer (Which is the shape of a tomato)
A variety of comics such as Iron Man and Thor stacked together.
Birmingham Comic Con is back! 👾
Check out our nerdy hidden gems from BCU’s e-resources and magazines here - www.bcu.ac.uk/library/news...
From Goosebumps to gore: BCU exhibition to explore horror genre and its younger audiences 🧛
The Youth & Horror Research Network, led by Dr Cat Lester (@unibirmingham.bsky.social) and Dr Kate Egan (@northumbriauni.bsky.social) has curated the exhibition.
Read more 👉 shorturl.at/VkIUE
Two student nurses working together on a dummy.
Three student Nurses working on a resuscitation dummy, whilst a student Nurse in the foreground reads notes aloud.
Happy International Nurses Day to our BCU Nurses past and present! 💙
Are you studying to become a Nurse at BCU? The Library is here for you!
You can visit our website www.bcu.ac.uk/library
Book a tutorial with your Subject Librarian
and ask us your Library questions 24/7 via online chat!
Happy release day to alumna Esther Abrami 👏
Her latest album WOMEN is out now!
🎶Listen now: shorturl.at/ZAZ67
A plush doll of William Shakespeare standing on a bookshelf.
🎭 Shakespeare’s Birthday 💸 Win a £10 Amazon Voucher!
Whether you’re a long-time Shakespeare fan or you’ve never seen one of his plays before, there’s something for you in our e-resources collection. Win a £10 Amazon Voucher by Celebrating Shakespeare’s Birthday!
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www.bcu.ac.uk/library/news...
📷: Redbud | Thomas Tucker
📷: Goldenrod | Robert Katz
📷: Pine Tree | Jeanette Tasey
📷: Milkweed | Deborah Roy
April is #NativePlantMonth 🌻🌷🌼
It’s #NationalGardeningDay, so it's the perfect time to take our new native plant personality quiz! Enjoy a bit of playful anthropomorphism with us as you discover whether you’re more like a pine tree or a milkweed. 🌱
Take the quiz 📲: blog.nwf.org/2025/03/whic...
A simple white dress on a mannequin, a dark background.
👒 Bloomsbury Fashion Central Database! - Trial!
This online collection of historic clothing, from costumes to dresses, gloves and shoes, is peer reviewed by experts 👁
www.bloomsburyfashioncentral.com/home
A big thanks to Wang Yan for this beautiful picture!
Spring has definitely arrived at City South, look at all these daffodils outside Mary Seacole Library!
Don't forget to take regular breaks from your studying and enjoy the spring flowers while they're here! 💐
We're calling it. This is the single best refinement of a meme in all of human history.
Book Cover for "One More Day Until Pride" illustrated with nice pictures of children, two are holding a banner which reads It's a party where all can belong. in the background are blurred out books.
February is LGBT+ History Month! 🏳🌈
There is a range of books from historical, art, children's and fiction that can be found at BCU Libraries.
View the online collections for LGBT+ History Month resources curated by our Librarians: shorturl.at/jmBEJ
#lgbthistorymonth2025🏳️🌈
Can anyone help Buckinghamshire Archives out with this one?
My guess - One of those long sticks used to open Victorian era windows with, in beta.
Illustration of a woman in a laboratory with the text 'Analyses, formulae, compounds, distillations, sediments - she's always on the go. The analytical chemist is full of problems; who isn't, in these days? And so, like other hard-working folk, she's glad of a cup of Rowntree's Cocoa, so soothing to nerves that are forever keyed up. Many a housewife too, coping with all the problems that even now still beset her, finds that Rowntree's Cocoa calms down her jangled nerves and aids digestion. Unlike so many drinks, it contains body building protein, energy-giving carbohydrate and fat. Rowntree's Cocoa soothes frayed nerves'.
In 1945 Rowntree's launched a campaign advertising their cocoa to women at home & in the workplace. As well as being architects, designers, musicians, reporters, librarians and bank tellers, the campaign also showed women as analytical chemists and scientific assistants #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM
A woman helps a child with self-service in a library.
Today marks the start of #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek. Public #Libraries make crucial interventions by offering The Reading Agency's #ReadingWell collection for free. All books come recommended by leading health professionals. readingagency.org.uk/get-reading/...
In Conversation with the Experts: The Future of the United Nations
📅 27 January 2025
📍 In person @mybcu.bsky.social
🔗 Register with QR code in pic
This will be the first conference we will live post on @bsky.app
This looks like a great event with some intriguing presentations. Go well Sam!
We're Green with Envy over here! 🍏 Looking fresh! 📗
20 Dec 2024 - 6 Jan 2025. Winter Break Library Opening Horus www.libcal.bcu.ac.uk. Picture of two illustrated snow men and pine trees in front of a photograph of the Curzon Building.
📢 Library opening times will be changing for
Winter Break - libcal.bcu.ac.uk lest you find yourself shut out in the
cold! ❄
📝Curzon Library will NOT be open 24/7 open for limited hours between 24th Dec and 6th
Jan
📝All library sites will either be self-service or closed
between 25th Dec and 2nd Jan
Four people wearing Christmas jumpers standing in a line
Happy Christmas Jumper Day from the
Library & Learning Resources team at BCU! 🎄
#YourBCULibrary #ChristmasJumperDay2024
loudoun pippin apples, painted by bertha heiges, 1901
loudoun pippin apples, painted by bertha heiges, 1901
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Hello! this is BCU Library and Learning Resources! Want to learn more?
💻 Visit your subject guide page www.bcu.ac.uk/library/find...
🔎 Go to the BCU Library Search Page for online resource search techniques www.bcu.ac.uk/library/find...
🗣 Library Chat is available 24/7 www.bcu.ac.uk/library
@bcusociology.bsky.social Hi BCU Psychology! so nice to see you here 😸 We thought we'd share your Libguide libguides.bcu.ac.uk/sociology-an... curated by Librarians to bring you databases, eBooks and journals in one place!
We look forward to keeping up with what's happening in your department 📝📚