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We will send you the latest notices issued by the UM Library, its developments, services, resources, workshops and more. Send any comments and/or feedback to library@um.edu.mt.Extended Opening Hours – Main Library
The Library will be extending its opening hours from Monday, 7 January till Friday, 8 February 2019.
The Main Library Study Halls on Level II and Level III will open on:
Mondays to Fridays: 07:00 - 23:00
Saturdays: 09:00 - 16:45
Sundays: 09:00 - 16:45
Please note that the Circulation Desk, Melitensia and Reference Departments will be closed during the extended opening hours.
Book transactions (borrowing & returning books) are carried out until 20:00 during weekdays and until 12:15 on Saturdays.
Extended Opening Hours – Health Sciences Library
From Monday, 7 January till Friday, 8 February 2019 the Health Sciences Library will open on:
Mondays to Fridays: 07:00 - 23:00
Saturdays: 09:00 - 16:45
Sundays: 09:00 - 16:45
The Circulation Desk at the Health Sciences Library will remain open.
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Special Collections news
Professor Peter Vassallo donates collection of papers relating to Dun Karm to the University of Malta Library
During a formal presentation held on 27 November 2018 at the UM Library, Professor Peter Vassallo presented the Library with an interesting collection of family papers relating to Malta’s national poet Dun Karm. The donation will be known as, “The Peter Vassallo’s Collection of Papers relating to Dun Karm”.
The formal presentation took place in the presence of Prof Godfrey Baldacchino, Pro-Rector, Mr Kevin J. Ellul, Director of Library and members of academic and Library staff. The donation serves to shed light on the poet and his work and consists of legal documents, (including Dun Karm’s will and testament, four in all, including his last), correspondence, handwritten poems in Maltese, Italian and English, photographs, account books and ephemera. Current and future researchers will greatly benefit from this generous donation to the Library by Professor Peter Vassallo of a much treasured family heirloom. We are most grateful to him for his altruistic gesture.
The Victor Pasmore Bequest
In September 2018 the UM Library, Special Collections Department was the lucky recipient of a collection of ca. 500 books, (some with insertions and dedications by the authors), belonging to the late British artist Victor Pasmore (1908-1998).
The collection of books was bequeathed through Mary Samut-Tagliaferro to UM Library by his children John Henry Pasmore and Mary Ellen Nice and will be known as the “Victor Pasmore Bequest”. Pasmore, together with his wife Wendy née Blood (1913-2015), who was herself an artist, had lived in Malta since the late 1960s making a typical Maltese farmhouse “Dar Ġamri” located on the outskirts of the small sleepy village of Gudja their home. The house and garden became, over time, an extension of the artist’s personality and art.
The bequeathed books formed part of Pasmore’s personal library and are predictably mostly concerned with art, with the works of some local artists namely Richard England, Gabriel Caruana, and Pawl Carbonaro also represented. Other subjects such as philosophy, religion, architecture and poetry are also represented in his collection.
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What's new at Melitensia
Book of the month - January 2019
The Port of Malta edited by Carmel Vassallo and Simon Mercieca
This recent publication, edited by Professor Carmel Vassallo and Dr Simon Mercieca, was published with the help of the University of Malta and the Valletta 2018 Foundation. This book consists of a collection of essays on the history of the Grand Harbour and on how Valletta was always considered a port city. These essays recollect memories of a time when most of Malta’s cargo was handled at Valletta’s harbours. The time periods presented in the papers range from before the arrival of the Knights till the late 19th century when Malta was a colony under the British. In turn, the publication also refers to the newly renovated Valletta as the European Capital of Culture of 2018.
