Library & Learning Services

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Library and Learning Resource Strategy

A Connected Community: A Library at the Heart of the University

Our Mission

The Library and Learning Resources aims to support and develop all University students, staff and researchers by providing access to excellent learning resources and information services. 

We will use our collective intellectual and wider capabilities as a force for good and look to create positive economic, cultural, societal and environmental change.

Our Principles

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Challenge Inequality

Listen Carefully

Think Critically

Collaborate Creatively

Protect Privacy

Discover Freely

Respond Reflectively

Sustainable Spaces

  • Create inspirational and inclusive physical and digital spaces that will allow students to push the boundaries of their learning experience.
  • Empower our community to engage with our spaces in ways that drive knowledge creation and innovation.
  • Embrace opportunities to work collaboratively to develop learning spaces, both inside and outside of the library buildings.
  • Optimise our physical and digital spaces to ensure that content, collections and services are discoverable and accessible.
  • Harnessing opportunities to support sustainable and climate aware learning spaces across the university.
Several young men working on laptops at desks in a modern, spacious open-plan office or study area with multiple desks and chairs spread out in the background.
A woman wearing glasses, a green jacket, and a striped shirt holds a book while standing in a library aisle with bookshelves on both sides.

Content and Collections

  • To actively seek out new ways of presenting content through visualisation and related technologies to provide more engaging experiences for learners and extend discovery.
  • Work to ensure our collections are representative of our diverse student and staff community.
  • Actively seek content licences that support Open Access, and wider ethical and sustainability concerns.
  • Ensuring our content and collections reflect the curriculum and related research activity.  We will regularly review our content to ensure relevance.
  • Showcasing the University’s research globally through our Open Access digital repository.

Enriching Experiences

  • Be a centre of excellence in transferable academic and digital skills developments, making best use of technology to enable innovation with the student at its heart.
  • Ensure diverse Institutional Archives and Records that reflect the whole University and foster ties with Alumni.
  • Collaborate with academic activity, bringing expertise and innovation that enhances the student experience and wellbeing.
  • Provide a service that prioritises data driven decision making and provides effective metrics that contribute to institutional planning, benchmarking and research.
  • Empower our researchers to navigate the complex Open Access landscape in a sustainable and straightforward way.
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Collaboration and Partnership

  • Through partnerships with our stakeholders, deliver an approach to continuous improvement which is informed and agile.
  • Collaborate with other libraries, consortia and professional organisations to share knowledge, expertise and secure value for money.
  • Contribute to debates on digital and information poverty, ethics and inequalities to ensure inclusive and equitable services for our users.
  • Develop a civic engagement programme that uses our Special Collections and Archives to support student recruitment, engage with staff and connect with and inspire local communities.
  • Foster links with our Partner Colleges to support academic experience across the organisation.

Organisational Excellence

  • Live our principles at all levels, reflecting leadership that role models integrity and our profession’s ethical code of practice.
  • Create an environment that nurtures talent, empower all members of our team and community, at all levels, to proactively contribute to service design and development.
  • Recognise and challenge our own biases and work to develop a service that better reflects the University community we work with, and society we want to live in.
  • Contribute to the culture of learning across the Institution by driving and enabling skills developments for all staff.
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Enablers

  • UWTSD Strategic Plan
  • UWTSD Digital Strategy
  • Learning and Teaching Enhancement Strategy
  • Research and Innovation Strategy
  • WHELF Strategy
  • Library and Learning Resources Operational Action Plan
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