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Intrepid explorers major focus for Library in 2020

The National Library of Scotland has announced its programme for 2020 with exhibitions on trailblazers and explorers. Collections will focus on the challenges that faced...

Uni installs sensors to stop students hogging library desks

A TOP Scottish university is installing movement sensors in the library to stop selfish students hogging desks. Edinburgh University is fitting desks with the devices...

Students vote overwhelmingly in favour of £40k nap pods in library

STUDENTS at a top Scottish university have voted overwhelmingly to spend £40,000 on "ridiculous" Google-style "nap pods". Nap pods are common at the offices of...

Top Scots uni forced to set up traps after hungry mouse stole students gingerbread man

A TOP Scottish university has set up poisonous mouse traps after a hungry rodent stole a student’s gingerbread man. Edinburgh University installed several traps around...

Man Booker Prize nominee hits out library cutbacks

ONE of the favourites to win this year's Man Booker Prize has hit out at library cuts. Crime novelist Graeme Macrae Burnet says Scotland's libraries...

Oxford students set up Facebook page dedicated to library book vandalism

OXFORD students have set up a website dedicated to the hilarious, bizarre and outrageous vandalism scrawled on the pages of their sacred library books. The...

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