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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.
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Digitisation During a Pandemic: New Approaches to Providing Access for Teaching

When the COVID-19 pandemic changed academic life, the University of Sheffield Library was in a strong position to continue to offer many of our services.
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Stepping up to the DMP challenge

The Scholarly Communications Team in the University of Sheffield Library has been supporting Research Data Management for several years, and the summer of 2019 presented the team with a new challenge.
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Mine or Not Mine?

Over the last 12 months we have run a pilot project to explore providing text and data mining support services to researchers at the University of Sheffield.
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Library teaching online: Building a community of practice in a socially distanced world

It’s some understatement to say that this was not the year any of us were expecting. Almost overnight, Universities made the transition to online teaching and learning on an unprecedented scale.
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Putting Personas to Work in User Experience (UX)