The University Library is designed to be inclusive and accessible to all. We provide step-free access, assistive technologies, and supportive spaces to ensure everyone can use our facilities comfortably and confidently.
The library team is dedicated to ensuring and promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion throughout our building. In the library you will find:
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This small book and DVD collection covers mental health, wellbeing, and other related topics.
A range of reading aids is available to support different reading needs and preferences
with playmat and children's bookcase
Ideas for taking a break from studying
A number of library staff are trained mental health first aiders. For further information and support around mental health, inclusion, disability, and learning differences visit the student wellbeing and inclusion pages.
We would welcome any feedback or suggestions relating to equality, diversity, and inclusivity in the Library.
Extra services and information for students with disabilities and learning differences.
All students registered with Student Support are entitled to additional support from the Library, including materials created in alternative formats Adaptive and assistive technologies are available on all library and university PCs.
The university campus is designed to be as inclusive as possible. You’ll find quiet and silent study zones, height-adjustable desks, and accessible toilets with emergency alarms on every floor. Lifts are fitted with safety sensors and audible alerts, and emergency phones connect directly to the Welcome Desk. To support a range of needs, we offer low-level information points with zoom features, colour-coded signage, a magnifier on the second floor, and hearing loops at key service points. The Reading Room includes a low-level printer, laptop collection point, and loans of noise-cancelling headphones, DVD players, and coloured overlay reading aids. You can also print on coloured paper — just ask at the Welcome Desk. Plus, our eBooks from VLeBooks and ProQuest include a helpful ‘read-aloud’ feature. We’re here to make your experience as smooth and comfortable as possible.
In the event of a building evacuation, library staff will, if possible, help wheelchair users onto the fire-proof staircases, and will then alert the Library Safety Officer and emergency services of the need for further assistance.Staff at the Welcome Desk will be happy to note where you are planning to work if you provide this information on entering the building.
The Library and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion team are developing the Human Library Project - a virtual library where human ‘books’ shed light on their experiences to help people understand one another, challenge their own often unconscious bias, overcome stereotypes and help build a more inclusive society where no one is left behind.Every ‘book’ is a volunteer who has faced stigma in their life due to a personal difference.