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.)

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* 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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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. 🎂

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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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.

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.

It was pretty extraordinary wasn’t it 😮

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

(We've done this for several years now, based on an idea from the British Library. Lots of other libraries have done their own versions too - we'd encourage you all to do the same! People really love it.)