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Red background with black and white figure of a variety of women circus performers, for example on an aerial rope and horse. Text reads: Women in Circus Symposium, Call for papers, Monday 23 March, University of Sheffield

Present at the Women in Circus Symposium

Call for papers now open! Submit your proposal for the one-day research event at the University of Sheffield.
Korean Women's Literature Exhibition
Korean Women's Literature Exhibition

Her Pages, her Power: Celebrating Contemporary Women’s Writing from South Korea

The initial idea for this new exhibition project came about as early as 2024, the year that Han Kang won the long-awaited Nobel Prize for literature for South Korea.
Leters and photographs from the Robert Innes Smith archive

History and Archives in Practice 2026 – Registration now live!

You can now register to attend History and Archives in Practice 2026, hosted at Firth Court on 16 April 2026.
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Arthur Scargill stood with a display of items from the archive at Western Bank Library

The Arthur Scargill Archive

Following a two year cataloguing project the Library is pleased to announced that the Arthur Scargill Archive is now open to all researchers.
A person sitting at a desk in Western Bank Library.

Open Educational Resources and OpenFest

Learn about the recently launched Open Educational Resources (OER) toolkit and OpenFest 2022.
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A history of enterprise search 1938-2022: the latest title to be added to the Sheffield Pressbooks Network

We are pleased to announce the publication of a new open access book on the Sheffield Pressbooks Network.

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Western Bank Library - Limited access over the winter

Works to reinstate the ventilation and cooling of Western Bank Library will continue this winter and as a result access to the building will be limited.
A portrait of Alan Winnington

The Alan Winnington Papers

The Library is pleased to open the archive to researchers for the first time, providing an intriguing insight into one of the most fascinating periods of East Asian, European and Cold War history.
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Embedding Information and Digital Literacy in the programme – a Faculty Librarian perspective