If you’re new to the University or need an introduction to the Library, head to our .

If you’re studying on campus, you can book a study space at the following Library sites:

• Alan Gilbert Learning Commons (open 24 hours a day, seven days a week)
• Main Library (9am-5pm, Monday to Friday)
• Stopford Library (9am-5pm, Monday to Friday)

All other Library sites and study spaces are currently closed.

Find out about all Library services that are currently available on the .

Remember, if you need help you can talk to us via . Open a chat by clicking the yellow button on the right hand side of our website.

The series is called Opening Remarks and is hosted by Clare Liggins and Steve Carlton. The first episode focusses on research data management and invites Dr Eleanor Warren, Chris Gibson and Bill Ayres to discuss the topic.

Steve Carlton explained: “The idea behind Opening Remarks is simple – we want to have conversations with colleagues from across the University about open research; how open research is supported and facilitated, but also how researchers embed open principles in their practice. We want these conversations to be informal, interesting and informative.”

The Research Services team are inviting researchers from across the University to get involved with the series.

Clare Liggins added: “Our intention is to record six episodes in this initial series, covering research data, open access, research communications, metrics and lots more besides. We’d been keen to hear from researchers about what they think we should be talking about.”

The first episode is available on , , and .

You can contact the Library’s Research Services team on Twitter at or email them at researchdata@manchester.ac.uk

Last week we held our first code club online and, whilst it was nerve-wracking initially, the new format worked well. It allowed all the attendees to connect with a facilitator and other learners. By utilising Zoom's breakout room functions, we can put everyone who is learning a particular language into a specific room to receive tailored help. We're also planning on having rooms set up for those interested in Library and Data Carpentry.

If you have an idea, would like help with code, or if you just fancy a chat about a particular language, come along to DigiLab Code Club online, every Thursday, 4pm to 6pm. Sign up to receive the Zoom link

Please also get in touch if you have any level of coding knowledge and would be happy to help people to get started learning to code - we're always looking for friendly helpers. You'll be part of a great team and fully supported. Get in touch with digilab@manchester.ac.uk for more information.

• - a flexible training course to help you develop skills to get the most out of being an online learner. 
• - useful information and tailored resource recommendations for your subject.
• - learning-specific resources including writing dissertations and essays, proofreading, and avoiding plagiarism.
• - research-specific resources including citation analysis, journal editing and managing research data.

Follow us on social media to hear about new training and resources when they’re released:

Got a question?

If you have a learning support question, you can or ask one of our Library experts.

Contact us by opening a chat in Library Chat or emailing uml.teachingandlearning@manchester.ac.uk

We’re working with publishers to make additional reading list resources available electronically this semester.

To support students studying online during the COVID-19 outbreak, publishers have made some textbooks from University of Manchester reading lists temporarily available electronically until 30 June 2020.

You can access the available e-resources via .

If an item on your reading list isn’t available electronically, ask your course leader to email the Library’s Reading Lists team and we’ll do our best to help.

Students from all years and degree subjects are welcome to drop-in and have a chat.

The sessions will be taking place on:

• 25 February 2020, 10am-12pm
• 04 March 2020, 10am-12pm
• 10 March 2020, 12pm-2pm
• 17 March 2020, 10am-12pm
• 31 March 2020, 10am-12pm
• 7 April 2020, 10am-12pm

At the sessions, you will meet with Careers Consultants and member of the Employer Engagement Team.

The team will pass on details of how the  can help, how to access advice as well as discussing specific projects such as the  or  for penultimate year undergraduates.

From 6 January, the Main Library will be open until 2am every day and we’ll have over 150 extra study spaces available. Plus, there’ll be extra staff on hand to help you with whatever you may need.

We’ll be offering with exam tips and wellbeing benefits – come along to a or , available every weekday.

Between 6 December 2019 and 12 January 2020, no Library items will be subject to being recalled by other Library users.

If you urgently require a book during this period, and all copies of that item are out on loan, please speak to a member of staff.

You can speak to staff in person at any of our , via the yellow Library Chat tab on all pages on the Library website, or you can check our page.

At present, only Undergraduate students are able to conveniently pay Library fines online. However, from the week of Monday, 11 November, a new payment portal for Postgraduate students will go live on the Library website.

Postgraduates and staff will be able to pay Library fines quickly and easily online by following the ‘Pay Fines’ link via ‘My Account’ in Library Search.

Have you used this new service or think you will? Let us know your thoughts via  or on Social Media @UoMLibrary using #UoMLibraryLife.

It’s a chance for you to have your say and tell us about your experience of the Library. Your feedback is important as it helps us improve our facilities and services.

Take our short, .

In return for your feedback you’ll be in with a chance of winning reusable coffee cups, free coffee vouchers and a £100 Amazon gift card.

Use our Order a Book and Order an Article services, and we’ll get them for you.

Order a Book is free; Order an Article incurs a £2 administration charge. Both services are available to staff and students.

The Library is committed to making Open Access as easy as possible for researchers and so provides a range of support services. This year, we will be holding four events during Open Access Week for postgraduate researchers and academics. Don’t miss the opportunity to speak with our experts, find out about the benefits of Open Access and how we can support you to make your work openly available.

Choosing a Credible Journal: And how to avoid ‘Predatory Publishers’

12 - 1pm, Tuesday, 22 October 2019

Main Library, Ground Floor Seminar RoomJoin this new workshop to find out how to decide where to submit your work for publication. Learn how to assess a journal using established criteria, and make sure you avoid publishing with so-called ‘predatory publishers’.

Open Research Showcase

1.30 - 3.30pm, Wednesday, 23 October 2019

Roscoe Building, Foyer

Join the Library’s Open Access experts to find out more about making your research openly available. Enjoy a hot drink and a cake, help to increase the visibility of the University’s research in our Wikipedia edit-a-thon and play some Open Access games.

This is a drop-in session, so just come along whenever you can.

Open Access in Five Simple Steps

12 - 1pm, Thursday, 24 October 2019

Main Library, Ground Floor Seminar Room

Find out more about Open Access in the Library’s bite-sized workshop for staff and postgraduate researchers. Learn about the most appropriate Open Access method for your work and how to be compliant with institutional and funder Open Access requirements.

Open Access Week AMA

All day, Friday, 25 October 2019

Twitter:

The Library’s Open Access experts will be answering your questions about Open Access, open research data and much more on Twitter. Follow and use the hashtag #OAWeekAMA to ask your questions.

For more information contact the Library’s Open Access team uml.openaccess@manchester.ac.uk

Specialist Library Support includes an extensive range of online resources, guides and training sessions. You can also contact the team via email, phone or Library Chat to discuss a particular problem, or book a consultation with one of our experts and receive one-to-one advice.

You should access Specialist Library Support if you need help with a particular system or type of software, or one of the specialist areas listed above. Here are some examples of how we can support you:

• Help with formatting an Endnote Library
• Search checking for systematic reviews
• Statistical analysis for dissertations

How to use business databases to find company information

Whilst the space has always housed maps, it is the first time it is being treated as a Special Collections Reading Room, which means staff will be available during the week to help with map enquiries. It also means that the area is reserved for customers consulting maps and special material. To protect the collections, food and drink are not allowed in this area (even bottled water).

The trial service will run from today, 30 September for three months, and will include provision for teaching workshops and other enhanced study for those engaging with our map collections.

Staff will be on hand to help on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 9.30am to 12.30pm and 1.30 to 4.30pm. Appointments to view maps must be made in advance.

If you have any questions, feedback on the service, or wish to make an appointment, email: uml.maps@manchester.ac.uk

Over the next three weeks, we’ll show you how to get the most out of our services.

Kickstart your journey with us by checking out our ; they’ve got useful links to the sections of the Library website you’ll need in your first few weeks. For extra support online, you can also chat to our staff using the yellow Library Chat tab on the right-hand side of our webpages.

If you’re on campus, come and see us in the , , or one of our . Our friendly staff will be on hand to answer any questions you might have, no matter how big or small (they’re the ones wearing purple so they’re super easy to spot). You can get a full introduction to using the Library at our drop in sessions.

Follow us on social media @UoMLibrary for live info and updates.

Based on data gathered from multiple sources, each report is tailored to a specific school, department or division and delivers diverse and detailed analyses of individual research areas. The reports will support staff with nuanced evaluation, such as assessing the citation performance of particular disciplines, as well as targeted competitor analysis and the identification of potential future collaborations and interdisciplinary research opportunities.

The reports will be published twice a year, and are accompanied by a series of how-to guides that explain how to interpret the report data responsibly.

While the new reports will likely reveal many previously unknown insights into the University’s research activity, they may also generate new questions. In this event, the Library’s Research Metrics team are on hand to provide .

Here are just a few of the Library’s highlights.

We began collaborating with the University of Cambridge Library on a digital image viewer that allows enhanced viewing and manipulation of items held in our Special Collections. This is a significant strategic partnership for both Universities and will be of great benefit to researchers.

The Library launched Open Access +, a premium service to support researchers find new audiences. The service helps researchers by navigating them through Twitter to find people with an interest in their field and creating media interest with press releases. The service has received fantastic feedback and is going from strength to strength.

Further improvements were made to our book loaning service. Students told us that they sometimes find it difficult to find books, in response we launched our ‘find a book’ feature. When using Library Search, if the book is housed in Main Library the location information now features a ‘locate book’ function that displays the exact location of the book being searched for.

We also extended our loan periods so students can keep hold of books for a year, taking the pressure off worrying about returning books.

We are always looking for sustainable ways to reduce waste. This year we launched paperless reservations, trialling ‘request from shelf’. Instead of books being marked with paper, students were sent an email.

Have a brilliant summer and here is to an exciting new academic year.

The Reading Room will be closed entirely on Monday 1 and Tuesday 2 July. However, from 3 July until the completion of the work, the service will be offered from the Christie Room on the first floor of the historic part of The John Rylands Library to ensure minimum disruption.

The refurbishment will offer improvements to the reader experience together with enhanced security and care of the collections through a redesigned staff workspace.

About the Reading Room

The room, located on the fourth floor of our Deansgate site, is an air conditioned, quiet space where anyone can register to access items from our world class Special Collections.

Christie Room interim arrangement

Services and routes throughout the building may alter at various times during the refurbishment so please do check the Special Collections Reading Room webpages for any updates ahead of your visit.

You can see some artist's impressions of the new Reading Room above, and .

Further details

For more information, contact Dominic Marsh, Project Co-ordinator.

We will no longer be using multi-coloured paper rolls to mark books that have been reserved, this will contribute to the reduction of our carbon footprint. Last year we ordered the equivalent of about 6,300 meters of paper for these reservation slips – to give it context; that would wrap around the AGLC over 30 times!

Customers will now just receive an email notification that their item is awaiting collection on a shelf under the first letter of their surname/family name. This will be implemented across all sites apart from Eddie Davies Library where there are Smart Lockers in operation.

You can find out more about sustainability work at The University of Manchester by visiting the .

Going forward, the standard loan period for University of Manchester students will be for the whole academic year, rather than a single semester as was previously the case.

It is important to remember that items may still be requested if all copies of that item are out on loan. .

If you have any library books you no longer require, you can return them to any site library or book return box. .

Revision Support Zone

Carlene Barton, ELearning Technologist, said, “We’re really pleased to be trying something new by evolving our previous Revision Stand into a zone this year. We’ve had feedback that students value a sense of community in the Library, so we’ve created an area with orange sofas and a coffee machine for a more informal approach to our offer for a casual chat, guidance and any exam support students may want to drop by and seek from us.

”The space is located next to the large video wall and exit turnstiles on Blue Ground and features bunting to clearly demarcate the area where students can sit down and speak to teaching and learning experts for any help.

Kathryn Miller, Teaching and Learning Assistant, added, “The space opens on Monday, 13 May and we look forward to seeing how the offer compares to previous years. Feedback so far has been really positive.”

Stephen Joseph Studio

The Stephen Joseph Studio opened on Saturday, 11 May and remains available with 60 extra desk spaces until Exam Extra ends on Wednesday, 5 June.

Caroline Boyd, Marketing and Communications Officer, added, “One of our key messages around space this Exam Extra is about highlighting the fantastic resource available in Stephen Joseph. We had such positive feedback with students citing it as their new favourite study space and describing it as quiet and underutilised.

“Even though students find desks in popular Library areas, they sometimes feel crowded and may prefer a less busy place to revise. To address this, we’re placing Table Top signage in the more commonly crowded spaces to make the suggestion that it may be valuable to try the often quieter Stephen Joseph Studio next time they come to campus to revise.”

To see all these support activities and more all in one place, check out our .

You can request items via Library Search that are currently available on the shelf in the same way as you would make a request when all copies of a book are out on loan.

This trial currently only applies to the Main Library.

Have you used this new service or think you will? Let us know your thoughts via or on Social Media @UoMLibrary using #UoMLibraryLife.

Interactive map

When a user clicks on a result, if that book is housed in Main Library, the location information now includes an option to ‘Locate this book’. Following the link opens an interactive map of Main Library, with the book’s shelf location highlighted in red.

• - Library website

The map appears as a floor plan and includes the key features of each floor, helping users to easily orientate themselves when looking for their book.

Helping customers in Main Library

The new Library Search feature has been developed in response to our customer feedback. In the most recent Library student survey, students suggested that having accessible floor plans of the Main Library would be helpful when locating books.

Currently, the ‘Locate a book’ feature is limited to books (not including journals) in the Main Library. However, there is the potential to expand the service and the Library’s customer service team will be monitoring feedback to assess the demand for this.

• - Library website

Screenshot

A book retrieval service is in place should you need any resources from these two areas, just speak to a member of staff at the Customer Services desk near the main entrance.

The current improvement works are being carried out as a response to the latest Library survey, where you listed power provision as one of your top priorities for study spaces.

Part of The University of Manchester, AIUC is an open access archive and library on race, identity and communities. It is located in the basement of Manchester Central Library and is part of the Archives+ partnership.

Safina succeeds director and education coordinator Jackie Ould, who had been involved in the organisation since its inception. Jackie worked closely with Professor Lou Kushnick, then a University of Manchester lecturer in Sociology and American Studies, to establish the Centre in 1998.

Safina joins the AIUC from the public programmes team at 91ֱ�� University NHS Foundation Trust, where she was a communities and inclusion specialist. Prior to that, she spent two years as chief officer at Ananna, the 91ֱ�� Bangladeshi Women’s Organisation, where she has recently been elected chair.

With a background in biomedicaI science, Safina obtained a PhD from the University of Manchester in 2000, and then moved into public health/health inequalities-focused research and policy development.

She was responsible for leading the first national review of race equality in health and social care as head of equality and human rights at the then Health Care Commission.

Safina is a trustee of BigLife Group and an independent member of the Our 91ֱ�� forum.

AIUC is named after Ahmed Iqbal Ullah, a 13-year-old pupil of Burnage High School in 91ֱ��, who was murdered in his school playground in 1986.

In the Main Library, Blue 2, Blue 3 and Purple 4 will be closed from Monday, 8 April to Friday, 12 April while we install hundreds of new plug sockets. One of your main concerns with study space was the number of available sockets in the study spaces themselves, so hopefully this will make your life a bit easier in the forthcoming exam period.

While these areas are closed a book retrieval service will be available – ask staff at the Customer Services desk on Blue Ground if you need a book on a floor that’s closed.

Students and users of the AGLC may wish to study at a quieter site this weekend (Friday, 12 to Sunday, 14 April) whilst drainage channels are fitted to the exterior base of three sliding doors near the ground floor foyer and café area.

The improvement works are likely to result in intermittent noise as flagstones are cut during the work which will prevent rain water entering into the building.

We’re asking all customers to eat their hot food (whether it’s been bought on campus or externally) in the AGLC cafe only. This means no hot food should be taken into the Main Library, or past the barriers in the AGLC.

4 out of 5 students surveyed last December were opposed to eating smelly food in Library buildings.

We received a number of comments including:

“Have stricter regulations about the foods taken into the study spaces”

“Control on people eating hot food which is smelly”

“Make sure no food is taken in as is it is a nuisance in many ways”

“Stricter regulation on food and drink”

“Ban smelly food.”

“…more awareness could be made about eating smelly food…”

We hope this improves your experience when using the Library. Please let us know your thoughts, and any other ways we can help you .

Library Staff moved 43,797 items from the old Precinct Library to the Eddie Davies Library over the Christmas/New Year period. The latest editions of key Business and Management journals are available on the shelves, with back issues available on request.

The Finance Zone has expanded, offering 24 brand new, high spec, specialist database PCs, each with two to four screens, and a bigger breakout space.

You can view a walkthrough of the building via the AMBS Twitter account:

The closure will continue all day on Saturday, 2 February.

Returning books

For students requiring books from the Main Library over the weekend, a retrieval service will be in operation. 

Students are advised to speak with members of staff in the AGLC about this service:

Alternative study space

Alternative study spaces will be available in the AGLC on Friday and Saturday (24 hours), and in Joule Library on Saturday (9am – 6pm).

To establish a service that delivers an excellent experience tailored to users’ needs, the Library led extensive research and pilot schemes to understand students’ attitudes to their reading. Students responded that they are more likely to complete their assigned reading when provided as an eTextbook, and prefer the format thanks to increased availability, convenience and low cost.

Students can download their core text to multiple devices via the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) for free, meaning they can access crucial course material anywhere at no cost. The Library’s eTextbooks have been accessed from 96 countries since September 2018.

To encourage students to engage deeply with their reading, eTextbooks provided by the Library include integrated learning tools such as note sharing, highlighting and annotations. Tutors can monitor usage and engagement via an analytics dashboard.

Find out more about the eTextbook Programme on .

Here’s just a few things you can take advantage of:

The Main Library will be open until 2am, and we’ll have over 150 extra study spaces.

If you need to get revising and the Library is packed, just look out for a member of staff wearing purple, and they’ll help you find somewhere to study.

The Stephen Joseph Studio, in between the Main Library and the Mansfield Cooper Building, will be available for you to use as quiet revision space again.

Many of our site libraries have extended opening times during Exam Extra, to help you with those important late-night study sessions. Full details can be found on the usual .

My Learning Essentials and the University’s Counselling service have teamed up again to bring you a suite of wellbeing support and revision technique workshops. Things like the ever-popular “Calm your brain and have a croissant” or our “1-1 Exam drop-in” sessions will help you get in the right frame of mind to perform to the best of your abilities.

A full list of exam support workshops is available on our .

If you need to use a PC, you can quickly get a snapshot of which PC clusters are busiest on the .

To see all these support activities and more all in one place, check out our .

Precinct Library will close for the final time at 8pm on Friday, 7 December, and the Eddie Davies Library will open at 9am on Wednesday, 2 January 2019.

Library customers are asked to borrow books in advance of the closure as there will be no access to print books, journals or our specialist database PCs during our move; however all our online resources will still be available.

In addition to the Precinct Library closure, The Finance Zone at Dover Street will close at 4pm on Friday, 14 December, reopening at 9am on Wednesday, 2 January 2019 in the new Eddie Davies Library.

During the move, The Finance Zone’s specialist facilities, including the Database Suite and Bloomberg Suite, will be unavailable, so customers are advised to access anything they need before we close.

As students, you can choose how you want to engage with the programme. First of all, you can choose which skills you want to develop based on your individual goals and interests. Then you can choose how you want to enhance those skills – whether that means booking onto a face-to-face workshop and learning alongside your peers or accessing our online resources wherever you are.

My Learning Essentials is not just about academic skills. We understand that it is important to develop strategies to support your personal wellbeing and other needs in order to be successful at University and achieve your goals.

We partner with key services from around campus including the University Counselling Service and the Disability Advisory and Support Service. Staff from these services deliver workshops as part of the programme, making sure that you have the support you need to make the most of your time at 91ֱ��.

But you don’t have to listen to us – hear it straight from the students themselves!

Some of the topics covered include: recent enhancements to Pure; the Library’s Order a Book and eTextbook projects; and an update on the redevelopment of the Eddie Davies Library.

Select your subject area to find out more:

Academic Engagement Librarians provide the first point of contact within the Library for all academic and PS staff. They provide tailored solutions on Library service issues, resolve enquiries and escalate and support ideas, providing a bespoke service for all staff.

There is an Academic Engagement Librarian for each School who is your dedicated point of contact in the Library, and will work with you to ensure that the Library is meeting your teaching and research needs.

Over the next three weeks, we’re going to be showing you how to Find, Use and Ask to get the most out of the services available in The University of Manchester Library.

The best place to start online is the ; they’ve got useful links to the most important bits of the Library website, to kick start your journey. On every page you’ll see a banner at the top that takes you straight to these pages.

You can also chat to our staff online, using the Library Chat tab on the right-hand side of our webpages.

You can come into the , , or one of our , and see us in person. We’re happy to answer any questions you might have, no matter how big or small. You can identify Library staff during the first three weeks of term, as we’re all wearing a rather fetching purple!

Lastly, make sure to follow us on social media for tons of useful info, service announcements (and the occasional cat GIF). Links to all our social media channels can be found on the left-hand side of our pages.

This a great natural fit with , the Library’s award-winning skills development programme. We have a great deal of experience supporting large groups of students within the curriculum; the 10 week pre-sessional course itself has over 850 students enrolled on it this year. We used a blended support package of face-to-face and online training, which we’ve found engages large groups of students.

Key online resources such as  and are embedded into the course Blackboard space, so that students can refer to these throughout the course at point-of-need. Links to the Library’s Get Started videos were also embedded by the Library’s eLearning team, and this approach went down very well with the students.

The face-to-face element came from two lectures in the Roscoe Building which were very well attended – we counted 847 students in total. The lecture introduced the types of support provided by the Library, focusing on the support available within the building. There was a discussion of My Learning Essentials resources and how these can help students with the essay-style assignment they need to complete to pass the course.

Students were encouraged to give live feedback during the sessions, and we were happy to see students understand and recognise all the services the Library provides – as well as our millions of books!

Thanks to course tutors for giving us such wonderful feedback; we’re glad your students found the lecture very useful. And thank you to all the students who came to lectures and used our resources, we wish you the very best in your studies.

John Hynes and Graham Holland (Teaching and Learning and eLearning teams)

Journals from different publishers and suppliers are all presented with a uniform look and feel within the interface and, using BrowZine’s predictive search, you can search on subject, title or ISSN. You can also view all available journals in a specific subject area or even a specific discipline within that subject area. Between July 2017 and June 2018 students and staff at The University of Manchester downloaded 3,072 full-text articles from 923 unique e-journals using BrowZine.

The interface contains a customisable virtual newsstand display called 'My Bookshelf' which can be used to easily browse content and then personalise it by selecting your favourite journals.

By setting up a free account you can take advantage of additional features, such as saving your favourite journals to your personal bookshelf and saving articles for reading later.

Journals can easily be added to the My Bookshelf area directly from their table of contents page, and shelves can be customised so you can easily place particular journals in terms of subject matter, speciality, or just alphabetically. My Bookshelf consists of four coloured rooms, or "bookcases," that hold sixteen titles each (four on each "shelf"), for a total of sixty-four individual journals. You can change titles of bookcases and shelves to aid in organisation.

Once a title is added to your My Bookshelf area, BrowZine will notify you when new articles are published in a journal by pushing a badge alert notification to your device to indicate the number of unread articles in that specific journals. You can also save articles for offline reading, share articles through Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, or email and export citations to Zotero, Mendeley, BibTex, or EndNote.

Access

BrowZine is available for:

• iPads, iPhones and iPod Touches with iOS v8.x+
• Android tablets and smartphones with OS v4.1+
• Kindle Fire HD tablets

Start using the  or download the free app from the Apple and Amazon App Stores and from Google Play. After downloading the app, find The University of Manchester in the list and enter your University of Manchester username and password when prompted.

Students across the University have been taking advantage of our scheme to get hold of a book when there was no copy available in the Library. The most popular subjects have been History, English & American Studies and Politics. You students in the faculty of Humanities are the real bookworms, as you make up almost 80% of our requests.

Around 75% of requests come from Postgraduate students, so if you’re still with us over the summer, don’t hesitate to put in a request if there’s a book that would help with your Masters or PhD; we’ll try our best to get hold of a copy.

The Library operates an e-first policy, as e-books are available 24/7, can be with you faster, don't take up extra shelving space, and are cheaper and more sustainable than the print alternative. Where content is available in a variety of formats, preference will be given to electronic.

Since the service launched on Monday, 19 February, more than 200 requests for books have been made by students, with the first requests starting to come in just after midnight.

The Library is providing further support to students with the ‘Order a Book’ service. If the Library doesn’t currently hold a copy of the book you need for your studies, simply fill in an order form and we will get it for you.

Find out more about the service and how to order a book at 

The extension will pop-up and notify you when you are on a publisher website that contains scholarly content available to access through the Library, including e-journal articles, e-books and databases.

A single click will open that site via the Library ensuring you have got access to all the content the Library provides access to.

Download Library Access

For more details and set up instructions see the 'Library Access' page:

This award for the Library’s WP service in partnership with the University’s Widening Participation and Outreach Team showcases the use of MLE’s eLearning and blended learning approaches to improve quality, scale and reach in three programmes of WP activity with successful outcomes: 91ֱ�� Access Programme (MAP), 91ֱ�� Distance Access Scheme (MDAS) and Extended Project Qualification (EPQ).

Blackboard is an education technology company which the University of Manchester uses for its teaching, learning and student engagement. The annual Catalyst Awards recognise innovation and excellence in the Blackboard global community of practice.

The Community Engagement Award recognises those institutions who are dedicated to improving student achievement by fostering a connection between school districts, institutions, educators, students, and their communities.

Katy Woolfenden, Head of Teaching, Learning and Students at The University of Manchester Library, said:

Stephanie Lee, Head of Widening Participation and Outreach at The University of Manchester, said:

The University of Manchester Library was one of three institutions in the UK to win an award which was presented at , Blackboard’s annual user conference, in New Orleans on 26 July.

Katy Woolfenden added: