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Hollier, Dase & Smyth - Extending the academic library: social responsibility, information literacy and schools
1. Extending the academic library:
social responsibility, information
literacy and schools
Carol Hollier
Annike Dase
Neil Smyth
2. Funding environment
“We are living through a
period of remarkable
turbulence, triggered by the
global financial crisis and
sustained by its aftershocks.”
Professor David Greenaway
Vice-Chancellor
University of Nottingham
3. Social responsibility
We believe in embedding
community engagement and
social responsibility in our
planning, people, resources and
strategic infrastructure across
all academic schools and
professional services.
4. Social responsibility
Aim:
To contribute to regional efforts
to raise aspirations to
university study and to support
rising educational
attainment, by maintaining the
level of activities delivered in
partnership with local schools
and colleges.
5. Social responsibility
Aim:
To open up our physical
environment and resources
for greater use by the public, to
engage, inspire and educate.
7. Widening participation
Our widening participation programme helps to
raise aspirations and educational attainment in
primary and secondary schools and colleges.
We have made information literacy part of
this widening participation agenda.
8. Information Literacy Activities
Visits before
Visits, but piecemeal •Piecemeal activity
•No consistency in offering
•No inclusion of local widening
participation target schools
Photo: KEN: Wikimedia Commons