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Fish-eye lens pic of the Burton library interior, showing long desks with chairs, and bookshelves

After some drama with a burst pipe and some cascading water, we're delighted to say the Burton is BACK and open again as normal. 🎉

Did you know that @uoylibrary.bsky.social provides a DOI registration service for @york.ac.uk academic outputs? 🔗

DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) can help people find, cite and track work. We provide them for outputs hosted on york.ac.uk web pages, and/or the White Rose Research Online repository

What a great piece and what a fabulous photo this one in particular is, of the Avocado under a bronze sky...

Look at this one though. Click on it and have a proper look, it is *delightful*.

Positively Narnia-esque.

The Morrell and Burton and car parks in front of them, all blanketed in snow

This is an all time classic. The pure SILVER of it all - look at the @uoyborthwick.bsky.social's spaceship like colours, the fabulousness of the trees, the Morrell looking crisp in all that snow.

A gothic hall with a blanket of snow on its rooves and lawn

Heslington Hall suits snow - possibly because the orangey terracotta brick looks so good against the white...

2018, this one.

The Quiet Place topiary covered in snow, with Hes Hall visible in the background

We've done a frankly GLORIOUS campus-in-the-snow compilation over on Insta (www.instagram.com/p/DRO5fwnjr3...) but we don't want you to miss out so here's some of the classics from our photographer Paul Shields ...

Welcome to the Morehell Use these top tips* to search YorSearch, Google Scholar, and academic databases: Trick OR Treat will find articles that mention either the word trick, or the word treat, or both. Use ‘Or’ to expand your search. Trick AND Treat will only find articles that have both words in. Use ‘And’ to focus your search. “Trick or treat” in quotation marks will only find articles with the specific phrase ‘trick or treat’ in. Use phrase searching for far fewer results, but far greater relevancy. Trick NOT treat will only find articles that contain the word ‘trick’, but not the word ‘treat’ – great when e.g. you’re doing research on magic and don’t want any results about Halloween… *Librarians call this BOOOOOOlean logic

We've put this up on our big vertical screen again this year... #UoYTips

What a sky, Bluesky!

It's hard to imagine that such an explanation actually exists...

Yes that's true. Thank you for your perspective across those four posts.

Absolutely. There's sort of three tiers and they all get lumped in together in way which doesn't help at all - AI, GenAI, and just apps which people pretend are GenAI for marketing purposes...

Yep we hear you... If you don't mind a follow-up question - is it right to assume this comment is about the output of GenAI generally being the product of mass-theft? (As opposed to the idea of plaigiarising the actual prompts from Sheffield's stock.)

Have people seen the Uni of Sheffield GenAI prompt bank? sheffield.ac.uk/study-skills...

It's an effort to make GenAI interactions more structured and efficient with specifically academic prompts to support specifically academic activities.

We'd be really interested in your views on it.

Hello! We're going to be part of an ADHD awareness month stand in @uoylibrary.bsky.social library foyer today! The stand runs 12.30-14.30 - do drop by with any questions, to find out more about available university support or just to have a chat!

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*sighs nostalgically* The number of hours I spent in the JBM...

(We'll gloss over the number of Danish pastries consumed in the cafe next door. Ahem.)

A colour shot of the 60s brutalist Morrell Library

* you remember the asterisk from the first post, next to 'much loved' building? That's because - you won't believe this, especially having made it this far down the thread - some people DON'T love it. They hate it in fact, they've told us. Extraordinary people.

Look at it.

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A student climbs the library bridge with the Morrell in the background

60s cars parked in front of the crisp, white Morrell

An ariel shot of the campus showing the lake, central hall, the library and other buildings

Finally, some exterior shots, including an ariel shot of the campus once the first wave of buildings were all finished in the mid to late 60s.

Happy birthday to the JBM! Here's to the next 59 years. 🎂

Empty shelves in the Morrell

A stylishly dressed student talks to a member of staff on the desk

A colour shot of students working at desks on the mezzanine floors of the Library

Here's some shots of the Morrell, all from the 60s. The first shows the moving-in phase - the shelves are up but no books have been shelved yet.

The second is touchingly titled 'The new Library'.

Pic three is a colour shot of Floors 3, 2 and 1, in use for studying much like they are right now.

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Show looking up at the Morrell - the building is largely finished by the bridge is still being constructed

The Morrell under construction - the outline is all there but not all the windows are in place.

Here we see not just the library but also parts of Chemistry being built in the first pic, and the Morrell cranes at work in pic 2.

Lovely to see the martini glass Chemistry tower...

Interior next.

Pen drawing of the 'book / reading area' - includes notes on where smoking will be possible...

Pen drawn plan labelled 'Dimensions etc' showing plans for books and shelves

Early 60s campus map labelled University of York Site Plan

Formal architect's plan showing a floor of the Morrell

Some hand-drawn plans from 1963 here! 😮

Along with an original campus plan, and then a 1965 architect's drawing of the a floor of the Morrell.

Love all this stuff. Love imagining the people with their pens in 1963 who drew these...

Construction next.

Black & white image showing the lake (very still), Central Hall looking alien, Vanbrugh College and behind that a very white and clean Morrell Library

The Morrell Library is 59 years old today!

Join us on a brief pictorial trip back in time with his much loved* brutalist building, starting with this cracking picture of the mid-60s campus, with the Morrell behind Central Hall.

Look at those crisp architectural lines. Woof.

Next up: plans >> 🧵

The Fairhurst and Morrell buildings behind a sunlit lawn beneath a very bright sun

Probably the last time the sun will be like this in 2025 so COME INDOORS WITH US, VISIT THE LIBRARY

It was pretty extraordinary wasn’t it 😮

The river is up in #York! If you like slightly whimsical videos of flooded rivers with a mellow sound track, this video is for you.

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We know a lot of our followers use Academia Edu - definitely worth reading the new Ts and Cs before deciding whether to accept them...

bsky.app/profile/npos...

In case you missed it - welcome to the library!

That's such a lovely thing to say, thank you...