University of Portsmouth Library audio tour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0s1sjEkKGU

University of Portsmouth Library audio tour

Welcome to the University of Portsmouth Library. In this overview of the library you can introduce yourself to some of the most important library services and facilities available.
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Welcome To The Library

The University of Portsmouth Archivist talks about the recently unearthed Nuffield Building time capsule https://youtu.be/32LlL37K0AQ?feature=shared

The Nuffield Building Time Capsule

More traditional study spaces and the book collection continue on the upper floors. In the far corner ahead of you and to your left, you can find the Map Library. This offers a unique set of printed maps and advice on using our extensive digital cartography software suite. We have a dedicated map librarian to help you with all your cartographic needs.

Please continue through the double glass doors and across the footbridge for tour stop

Open day tour stop 7 - Map Library

In addition to the café, there are vending machines available 24/7 and water bottle refill stations near the café and up on the second floor.

To your right, the Near and Far World Books collection is a growing collection of bilingual, translated and foreign language children’s books. It incorporates the prestigious Outside In World Children's Books in Translation collection of children's books translated into English. 

We actively encourage the collections to support research and teaching at the University of Portsmouth and in the wider academic world, and for community outreach work. These books are included in the Library Catalogue and most are available for loan. Teaching rooms and open access computer rooms around the far side of the building are available for study when they are not being used for teaching. Postgraduates have access to an exclusive suite of study rooms.

You may have already noticed the diversity of study spaces available in the Library, from conventional islands of desktop computers to diner booths and curved seating areas more
suited to group work and the sofas of the Book Nook near the Library Café. Keep an eye out for the executive swivel chairs and other types of seating elsewhere in the building!

Please head back to the atrium and through the green framed glass double doors into the next part of the building for tour stop 6.

Open day tour stop 5 - Library café

You can borrow full-size laptops, complete with power cables, from the lockers on the ground

floor to use anywhere in the Library. You can also bring in your own devices and connect them to the secure, high speed WiFi network or plug them into the docking stations on the upper floors to take advantage of the power and personalised set up of your device while enjoying the comfort of using a large curved desktop screen, keyboard and mouse. You can plug any device into the power sockets underneath most tables on the ground floor and in the floor and wall sockets on the upper floors.

New books and the current issues of popular magazines and journals are displayed to your right in the café area. Back issues of printed magazines and journals are available for you to browse and scan on the second floor. You can read another 7,000 magazines and newspapers online through the PressReader app and nearly 100,000 full-text electronic journals through our other electronic resources. We also offer image, sound, animation, and video databases, statistical, news, market and company information resources and other specialist databases to support each subject.

Please head towards the café near the front of the building for tour stop 5.

Open day tour stop 4 - Current journals and loanable laptops

The Library is open 24/7 during term-time and the Easter holidays and opens for long hours over the summer. You can borrow and return any of our 390,000 books at any time using the self-service kiosks. Books you reserve or request through our click and collect service are shelved at the collection point in front of you, saving you the time of finding books on the shelves. Most of our collections are now online, with nearly million ebooks and 100,000 academic journals available to you wherever you are studying over the internet. These are brought together through your subject pages on the Library website and the Discovery Service, which makes it easy to search across many of our
electronic resources from a single search box. All this is supported by our library skills drop-in service and 24/7 online chat and telephone and IT support to ensure you always have access to the help you might need.

The glass cupboards at the side of the Atrium contain artists' books, boxed sets and other books with pop-up sections, removable parts, interestingly and irregularly shaped covers, or that are otherwise not suitable for shelving with our main collection. Students are welcome to borrow any of these books.

Drop-in study pods offer isolated study with fully adjustable lighting, while the larger sound baffling drop-in meeting pods offer informal meeting spaces that contain the noise of people talking while excluding noise from outside. There is an Individual Silent Study Zone on the second floor, the entrances to which are marked with purple banners. The drop-in individual study pods on the ground floor, sound baffling drop-in meeting pods and group study rooms are also spaces where you will typically experience less noise. Reusable earplugs are available on request from the Reception Desk.

A lift offers easy access to the upper floors for anyone to use. There is also a second lift available to anyone with reduced mobility.

Please make your way to the far end of the Atrium for tour stop 3

Open day tour stop 2 - Atrium

Welcome to the University Library self-guided tour! If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask any member of Library staff. If you would like a guided tour, please go through the gate between the turnstiles and ask any member of Library staff.

The Library has been awarded Customer Service Excellence accreditation in recognition of the way we work to help people like you. We are continually striving to improve the service we provide, and much of the service you see today is based on ongoing student feedback.

Please continue through the open glass gate into the atrium for tour stop 2. Please ask a member of Library staff here if you would like a guided tour of the Library.

Open day tour stop 1 - Foyer

Some people cannot get through life without listening to music but if you want to listen to anything other than pop and rock, it can be harder to find really good recordings to stream. Naxos Music Library, incorporating Naxos Music Library Jazz, offers an unrivalled breadth of classical and jazz music recordings for on-demand streaming, featuring millions of tracks on major and independent labels, including the latest releases added weekly. Alongside the recordings are supplementary materials such as biographies, liner notes, curated playlists and a plethora of educational resources. Download the mobile app for iOS or Android and stream classical music and jazz to your phone on the move. https://library.port.ac.uk/w239/26

Naxos Music Library

An exhibition of hand dyed textile art by University of Portsmouth Alumni Laura Simpson (@i.tell.amelia.art) at the University of Portsmouth Library.

Textile art by Laura Simpson at the University of Portsmouth Library

Sounds Beyond Music: Selected objects from The Museum of Portable Sound, an exhibition by Dr John Kannenberg at the University of Portsmouth Library.

An Introduction to The Museum of Portable Sound

Find out more from the University of Portsmouth Rare Books Collection https://library.port.ac.uk/rarebooks.html

For the love of rare books

Covering using Google Advanced search and site: search command.
Top Tips
To ensure you get the best quality information as quickly as possible:
1) Use " " around phrases to restrict your search to more relevant results: "corporate structure"
2) Use a site: command to look for information from particular organisations or web addresses
•	Type site: and the domain you want and then add your search terms: site:gov.uk brexit "financial services"
•	The most helpful domains when locating business information include:
o	site:org.uk - get an industry perspective on a topic with results from UK organisations 
o	site:gov.uk - find government policy on particular issues
o	site:parliament.uk - very useful for locating parliamentary research reports
3) Use Google Advanced Search

Site search and Advanced Google searching

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The University Of Portsmouth VPN

Statista introduction with Hannah Porter. From the Business and Management subject page.
https://library.port.ac.uk/subject/page490.html

Statista introduction with Hannah Porter

Mintel Reports and Mintel Tools introduction with Hannah Porter. From Marketing subject page https://library.port.ac.uk/subject/page487.html#t487

Mintel introduction with Hannah Porter

FT and The Economist introduction with Hannah Porter. From the Business and Management subject page. https://library.port.ac.uk/subject/page510.html#t510

Financial Times and The Economist for Business Students

WARC (World Advertising Research Center) is a specialist database with articles, research reports, interactive data and case studies covering advertising and more. Also includes some Euromonitor company profiles and strategy briefings. From the Business and Management subject page https://library.port.ac.uk/subject/page487.html#t487

WARC introduction with Hannah Porter

With GlobalData Explorer you can search for and compare companies, industries and economies across the world. The database covers 120 industry sectors, 753,000+companies, 200 countries, and 3,000 cities. Includes macroeconomic, industry, company, advertising, jobs, and product launch databases. Analysis comprises company/industry/sector reports, analyst option, macroeconomic, and thematic reports. From the Business and Management subject page https://library.port.ac.uk/subject/page487.html#t487

GlobalData Explorer introduction with Hannah Porter

Business and Management subject page introduction with Hannah Porter. From the Business and Management subject page https://library.port.ac.uk/subject/sub3.html

Business and Management subject page introduction

IBISWorld provides a comprehensive collection of industry reports on very specific sectors in the UK as well as further specialist reports. Also covers industries globally, in the US, China, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. From the Business and Management subject page https://library.port.ac.uk/subject/page490.html#t490

IBISWorld introduction with Hannah Porter

Portsmouth University Library podcasts and interviews with staff.  Library staff talking about what they love and tips on how to get more from the Library.

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