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For International Women's Day, here's a (very) small selection of our books on feminism, women’s rights, and women's stories.
You're welcome to borrow any of the books on the trolley (or add any books you'd like to highlight for others to see).
It's World Book Day (and we have a fair few of them), so here's a small selection of books and stories to whet your appetites.
Reading a chapter (or a short story) of something unrelated to your studies is a tried and tested way of taking a break, should you need any further incentive to pick one up.
New display for LGBT History Month. Please feel free borrow or add anything.
The University of Cambridge now has trial access to the LGBT Magazine Archive until 2 March 2019. Further details and access to the Archive via this link:
A quick reminder that we welcome book suggestions at any time.
If you're a member of Selwyn and there's a book you think we should have in the library, please let us know.
Something for HASS graduate students:
Book now for free research skills training from Cambridge Open Access. Learn how to manage your research information and demystify publishing and promoting your work. https://osc.cam.ac.uk/current-events
Have you borrowed from - or added to - our changing display of books and DVDs during Black History Month?
It's arrived! The new printer / copier is installed and working. It's a bit different to the old one, please do ask in the Office if you get stuck and we'll do our best to help.
For Libraries Week, here's a celebration of Cambridge's many (many) libraries courtesy of Varsity: https://www.varsity.co.uk/features/16235 (If you look closely, you'll spot a Selwyn mention.)
We're looking forward to welcoming new graduate students to the library on Friday afternoon and new undergraduate students next week. If you're keen to get started using the library, have a look at our brief guide to the basics: http://www.sel.cam.ac.uk/…/Getting-star ted-at-Selwyn-Colleg…
Images and information from our exhibition for Open Cambridge on Friday 14 September 2018.
Images and information from our exhibition for Open Cambridge on Friday 14 September 2018.
Our Open Cambridge exhibition is now open. It will run today (Friday 14 September) from 10am until 4pm and all are welcome.
For more details, see the Open Cambridge entry for our event: https://www.opencambridge.cam.ac.uk/…/w omen-and-their-work-…
This Friday (14 September) for Open Cambridge:
Women and their work: 19th-century Selwyn women in their own words
Explore nineteenth-century life in New Zealand, Melanesia, and closer to home in the words and images of three women who experienced them first-hand. This display will feature Sarah Selwyn’s 1890s memoirs of her time in New Zealand (1842-1867), Annie Selwyn’s diary of an 1886 voyage from Norfolk Island to Santa Cruz, and Kathleen Lyttelton’s Cambridge and London a...ctivism and writing, together with photographs and drawings illustrating their experiences.
10am-4pm in Selwyn College Library
https://www.opencambridge.cam.ac.uk/…/w omen-and-their-work-…
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Introducing CamGuides:
This freely-accessible online resource is aimed particularly at those of you coming to Cambridge to start a taught postgraduate course, to be accessed before you arrive, but there’s plenty here for anyone new to Cambridge, new to postgraduate work, or wanting to learn more about key academic, research, and digital practices. Take a look: https://camguides.lib.cam.ac.uk/