THE LIBRARY will be closed overnight on November 7th, and all university IT services will be unavaliable to staff and students.

The building will be closed from 19:00 and won’t re-open until the next day at 11:00.

The closure is due to essential mains power work being carried out to the UCLan University data centre in Adelphi Building. All University network access onsite and offsite to all IT Services will temporarily be unavailable to staff and students. Continue Reading

National Year of Reading and Get It Loud in Libraries present Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip’s Christmas Library Tour.

If you’ve got a discerning ear then you may have been at 53 Degrees last month for a genre-splicing fusion of electronic and hip-hp. Tracks such as ‘The Beat That My Heart Skipped’ and the Radiohead sampling morality tale of ‘Letter From God To Man’ give way to the scenester baiting brilliance of ‘Thou Shalt Always Kill’.

Those lucky enough to have had tickets on 10th October in Preston will undoubtedly remember the Sugababes and Prince covers too. However, now the duo are now taking on libraries around the country in a scheme to open up all of the literary possibilities that youngsters don’t take advantage of.

Forget your local Barfly, libraries are now the venue du jour for the coolest of artists; Black Kids to The Wombats and Adele have all played sell-out gigs to biblio-crowds.

However as successful those aforementioned acts are though, none are as apt a booking as Scroobius Pip, whose lyrical ingenuity is both unique and extremely well-regarded. And when mixed with Dan Le Sac’s effervescent beats it creates an experience unlike any other- expect tracks from debut album ‘Angles’ and a few more odd cover choices as well.

Lancashire County Council’s award-winning Get It Loud in Libraries scheme is to take in dates around the country from Walsall to Lancaster with George Pringle providing able support.

Scroobius Pip said of the gigs – “I have effectively grown up in libraries since my mum has always worked in them! People don’t realise how lucky we are to have so much information and literature literally at our finger tips.”

For more information please visit www.myspace.com/getitloudinlibraries

Tickets are £6 but have £1 concession for library members.

Tour Dates are as follows:

The tour starts on Dec 5th at Walsall Library, then takes in

Dec 5th Walsall Library]

Dec 6th Lancaster Library

Dec 7th Burnley Library

Dec 10th Skelmersdale Library

Dec 11th Poole Library

Dec 13th Grays Thurrock Library, Essex

Dec 14th British Library, London

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