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Library and Cultural Services
05 December 2023
ESCALA, the Essex Collection of Art from Latin America at the University of Essex, was founded by staff and students in 1993 and inaugurated in December of that year with an exhibition at the University Gallery, now Art Exchange, and this year we celebrate 30 years since that foundation.
Gisselle Giron, Dr Sarah Demelo
22 November 2023
The University of Essex has launched an institutional fund dedicated to helping Essex researchers make their work available open access.
Sean Andersson
23 October 2023
Read about our latest efforts in our ongoing project to decolonise the library.
26 September 2023
Tilly Hawkins curates 'Dispatches from the Culture War', examining the NVALA archive of Mary Whitehouse through a queer lens on the Floor 1 landing of the Albert Sloman Library.
Tilly Hawkins
20 June 2023
On Track for your Master’s is a programme of free workshops which runs 12 to 23 June 2023 aimed specifically at Master’s students at Essex to help them find literature or data, manage references, and write their dissertation effectively.
Oona Ylinen
02 June 2023
Santiago Valencia Parra, Rabia Perwaiz, Adhithi Ravikumar, Dongxian "Gin" Zhang, Konstantinos Sfikas, Jingyi Chen, Olatoye "Toye" Salawudeen, Cynthia Iruobe
18 April 2023
Dr Matthew Bowman takes a critical deep dive into Sam Durant's Iconoclasm exhibition at the University of Essex, February to April 2023.
Dr Matthew Bowman
03 March 2023
We welcome Jonathan White as he steps into the role of Director of Library and Cultural Services and University Librarian on 1 February.
01 February 2023