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Looking for a read for the summer vacation? This month's theme is books about books! 📖📚

Tomorrow's the day when we ask you all to please return or renew your books for the long vacation. Leavers we especially ask you to make sure you don't accidentally leave college with one of our books! 📚 📖

Next Thursday we're running a hands-on bookbinding session, introducing participants to the foundations of bookbinding! All are welcome just be sure to bring along a book for rebinding! 📅 Thursday 18th June 14:00-17:00 📍 Hartland Library Foyer Sign-up details: forms.office.com/e/18j5xmySs7

It's not just literary talent that we celebrate at the library! A huge shoutout to Norm from our catering team, whose latest graphic novel has just been published! 🎉 We absolutely love his artwork and think you will too. Fancy a read? You can find a copy on the New Books display in Hartland. 📚✨

On a hot day like today there's nothing better than a nice cool book to bring down the heat! 🥶❄️🧊 What are your favourite refrigerated reads?

As exams creep up for some of us, don't forget that the library also has a welfare section filled with lovely books for your mental health and wellbeing!

Looking for your next read? St Anne's supported Schwarzman Cultural Fellow Kae Tempest's newest book has landed at the library!

It's mental health awareness week so we're highlighting some of the non-academoc activities you can get up to in the library! Check out our book swap or new books display for some leisure reads, or sit down at the relaxation station to have a stab at some colouring or a puzzle! 📚🎨🧩

Final reminder that our library spaces will be CLOSED between 18:00 Saturday and 06:00 Sunday this weekend so that the students can enjoy the College ball! Don't forget to take everything you need out of the library before it closes!

Congratulations to honorary fellow Bernardine Evaristo who has been appointed Visiting Professor of Creative Media! She's giving a talk in the Sheldonian this evening about how her creativity was shaped by her origins in London. Why not go and take a copy of one of her fantastic novels with you?

Advanced notice: The library will be closed for the St Anne's College Ball this Saturday The doors will close at 6pm on Saturday and be opened again at 6am on Sunday - please make sure not to leave anything in the library between those times!

Our very own Professor Simon Park is hosting a talk tomorrow discussing the shipwreck narratives in his book 'Wreckers: Disaster in the Age of Discovery'. Why not borrow it, or one of Professor Park's other works from our new books display in Hartland?

We've been so enamoured by the blossoms in the College gardens that it's inspired our latest book display! Why not take a break and pick up a fun nature-themed read? 🪴🍄🍃⛰️

The sun is out, the students are back and the library is in bloom! Welcome back to our students for TT26, we hope you enjoyed the vacation and are making the most of the sunshine (can confirm it's a great day for a blossom-themed photoshoot) 🌸🪻🌷🌺💐