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OUSA Confirms University Bookshop Under New Ownership

Posted 10:29am Friday 4th September 2026 by Hanna Varrs

The Otago University Students’ Association has announced that the University Bookshop (UBS) has been sold to John Brenssell, with plans for the bookshop to continue operating as an independent bookstore, under the University Bookshop brand, preserving its long-standing heritage in Read more...

UBS To Shut Down After More Than 80 Years of Service

Posted 11:47am Sunday 2nd August 2026 by Daniel Gray

For more than eighty years, the University Bookshop has been a fixture of student life, and a staple of the wider Dunedin community. When it first opened in 1945, under the management of the Presbyterian Book Room, the first page was turned in the UUniversity’s story following the Second Read more...

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Founded in 1925, Critic Te Ārohi is the student magazine of the Otago University Students' Association.

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