We are getting through puzzles very quickly on the wellbeing table – despite some seriously tricky patches of sky. If you’re in need of a study break, come to the ground floor of Fountains and see if you can put
Puzzled!
Happy Halloween from Digital Training
This blog post will delve into the spine-chilling digital training initiatives undertaken at York St John University. As we are into our fifth week of terrifying teaching for the autumn semester, York St John University’s digital training team has been
Green Libraries Week 2025
It’s Green Libraries Week! This week celebrates the sustainable contributions made by libraries, and how they can foster greater understanding of climate resilience, ecology and climate justice. To mark the week, we’ve put together a display of climate-focused resources, covering
‘Eight Detectives’ by Alex Pavesi
I finished this book less than 12-hours ago so it’s pretty fresh in my mind and will remain there for a long time as I loved it. It tells the story of an academic who wrote a paper in the
Welcome Week puzzles
A challenging welcome week puzzle! But nothing in we couldn’t handle! The white portion was especially hard leaving little room for error! But we got there thanks so much for always having these out and I hope too see the
Via Magica
VIA MAGICA – 2-6 players – 30 minutes – Game Designer: Paolo Mori. Games In Teaching – how this game relates to courses Illustration, Graphic Design, Publishing, Product Design, Marketing: the use of artwork, theme, physical design and packaging compared
Black History Month 2025
To celebrate Black History Month, we have curated a selection of books and DVDs encompassing diverse stories from Black history. Spanning fiction, history, criticism, poetry and memoir, the books reflect this year’s theme ‘Standing Firm in Power and Pride’. This
Introducing ‘Curiositas’
We’re delighted to announce the launch of Curiositas, York St John’s new Open Access, peer-reviewed journal celebrating postgraduate research in the School of Humanities. Created by postgraduates and for postgraduates, Curiositas provides a supportive platform to share work, experiment with
Botanical Bookworms in review
We’ve collated our data from the Welcome Week Botanical Bookworms event and we are happy to say it was a great success! 206 people attended the event. 332 free plants were given away to new homes. As we kept things
Spider plant update
I got this tiny baby spider plant in the previous Botanical Bookworms in April. I repotted them to a old pot which I picked up from a car boot sale. Five months later now, they are really happy on a
Botanical Bookworms
The library was transformed into a temporary greenhouse last week, as we ran our biannual Botanical Bookworms event. It was great to see so many of you take home plants for your kitchen windowsills, bookshelves, gardens and bathrooms. As well
Recipe Testing
If you attended our Botanical Bookworms event in the library last week, you may have picked up one of our handy recipe bookmarks to accompany your new edible plant (if not, we have plenty more at the library information desk
‘Intermezzo’ by Sally Rooney
York – Relaxed Reads – Ground Floor 823.92/ROO London – Third Floor 823.92/ROO I’ve always been more of a non-fiction reader but, encouraged by my library colleagues, I’ve recently dived into the world of fiction again and rediscovered the pleasure
YSJ London Library Updates
Our YSJ London students will have noticed some changes in the library over the summer. Here are the key updates – watch this space for more! The YSJ London Campus Library space has undergone a few physical changes. This includes
What’s new? Changes to the Fountains Library
Here’s a handy overview of what has changed in the Fountains Library in the last few months: Advice Team: Your Go-To Support for Smarter Studying Navigating the library can sometimes feel overwhelming—especially when you’re juggling deadlines, research, and new digital
What’s new in Relaxed Reads?
Need to take a break? As the new academic year begins and we dive in to a new semester of study, it’s important to take some time to relax and recharge. Our Relaxed Reads collection consists of primarily fiction books,
Our hardest ever jigsaw is complete!
We thought it couldn’t be done… our super challenging bookshelf jigsaw is complete! Sadly there is one piece missing – if anyone finds it in the library, please let us know. We have moved on to an easier puzzle for
Jigsaw breakthrough…
We nearly put away this jigsaw as we thought it might be too challenging (this is supposed to be the wellbeing table, not the frustration table) – but progress has been made! It’s now got to the easy part. Come
International Literacy Day
Today we are celebrating UNESCO International Literacy Day Literacy is a lot more than just knowing how to read – UNESCO defines it as “the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate and compute, using printed and written materials associated
Botanical Bookworms – 24 & 25 September
If you’ve been in the library over the summer, you may have noticed the second floor windowsills being transformed into a temporary plant nursery… We’ve been growing herb seedlings for a free event during Welcome Week. Come along to the
‘Days at the Morisaki Bookshop’ by Satoshi Yagisawa
Translated by Eric Ozawa, Manilla Press 2003Relaxed Reads – Ground Floor 895.636/YAG Twenty-five year-old Takako starts living in the dusty little room above her uncle’s second-hand bookshop after a life changing crisis – breaking up with her boyfriend and losing
‘In Ascension’ by Martin MacInnes
Martin MacInnes, In Ascension (London: Atlantic Books, 2023), Second Floor 823.92/MAC I picked this book up under the incorrect assumption that sci-fi offers escape from the stresses of daily life. Instead, I was sucked into an engaging 500-page novel full