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The Library teams will be taking a break over the holiday period, so please read on for information about our opening hours and the services which will be available during this time.
Library and Cultural Services
11 March 2024
We asked the teams from our Library and Cultural Services section to recommend their favourite books this World Book Day, and they did not disappoint!
Hanna Jones
06 March 2024
The library collections contain many works on the campaigns for women’s suffrage that took place in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Lucy McCaul
01 March 2024
The Lakeside Theatre team reflect on a busy month of LGBTQ+ theatre, workshops and screenings which brought together and celebrated the LGBTQ+ community at Essex.
Jonathan White, Hanna Jones, Kanyinsola Olanrewaju
29 February 2024
The Open Access Team have recently announced the publication of another work funded by the Essex’s institutional Open Access Fund. The latest publication, a chapter by Dr Rebecca Clift, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Language and Linguistics, contributes to a major new essay collection from Routledge.
Sean Andersson
29 January 2024
Our opening hours will be reduced over the Christmas and New Year period, keep reading for campus specific information.
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.
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