Spring Dissertation and Thesis Festival 23-27 February 2026: We have an exciting week of events planned for the Library’s Dissertation & Thesis Festival this February to highlight how the Library can help students succeed with their dissertation or thesis. Our programme includes a Discovery Day on Monday 23 February, when the Main Library (at George Square) will feature stalls from digital resource publishers and our own library teams highlighting our huge range of […]

We have recently acquired a facsimile boxed set of Archigram magazine: the Archive. Architecture’s most influential, innovative and beloved underground magazine, reissued for the first time in a handsome clamshell box! Published by Designers & Books. Inspired by comic-book culture, Pop art, psychedelia, the space race, sci-fi, Constructivism and Buckminster Fuller, the hugely influential British […]

by Sonal Katyal It was a long day. Sore back, fatigue, and the body is now asking for a chill night. Then you hear a sound, “Rumble Grumble!” Clearly your stomach didn’t get the message. It needs to be fed now. You close your eyes and remember all the work and number of dishes that […]

This blog has been following the commemorations of the bicentenary of the enactment of the Civil Code of the State of Louisiana of 1825. A recent event worth noticing was the presentation at the Louisiana Supreme Court of a special issue of the Loyola Law Review, containing the eleven presentations sponsored by the Bicentennial Committee […]

I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit. All I can do is keep those few reasons nicely polished. (Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running) My good friend Gary is visiting today and we plan to go for a run, followed […]

📷 Insights Gained from Cindy Sherman’s Photographic Works When collecting information on female-themed exhibitions and related artists, I came across Cindy Sherman’s “Untitled Film Stills” series. In these works, Sherman assumes various female roles, such as a housewife in the kitchen or an office lady. Although these characters do not have a clear storyline, we […]