A new era of academic publishing We’re excited to announce the launch of Salford Open Journals, an innovative platform dedicated to showcasing the exceptional academic work produced by students. This new initiative represents a significant step forward in our commitment to fostering academic excellence and providing a prestigious outlet for research, creative works, and scholarly […]
The Library launched the new Salford Authors initiative in February with a week of in-person and online events. We had a great online reach leading up to the events with over 10,000 views across social media. The launch succeeded with around 150 attendees and positive feedback, prompting requests for future similar events. The main event, […]
It’s difficult to define exactly, what makes a zine a zine. Zines do not have any set subject or design. You have complete freedom when making one. The only common terms that come up when describing a zine are DIY, self-published and not for profit. They started being made in the 1920s/30s as a way […]
Failure Friday! What if failure didn’t have to be defined as a negative? What if we started to see it as a facet of longer-term success? We think of failure as a bad outcome, something to be ashamed of and a barrier to achieving success. This shouldn’t be the case! Festival of Failure – Failure […]
Are you struggling with page 412 of tiny textbook print? Debating a third re-watch of Tiger King? The Library’s Leisure Reading collection might just hold the thing for you… At your Leisure Indie small-press poetry, Booker bestsellers, stellar sports biographies, and classic graphic novels are just a few of the nearly one thousand books on […]
Happy International Poetry Month! The event was inaugurated in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets. It is 30 days of celebration of all things poetry. Something that a lot of poets choose to do throughout the month is a writing task called ‘A Poem a Day’ – it can be of any length, of […]