Information literacy

Information literacy underpins our learning, teaching, and research, as well as how we communicate and engage with society.

The Library’s goal is to empower students, staff and researchers to become confident, critical and ethical information users, enabling them to find, evaluate, use, create and communicate information effectively in an increasingly complex information landscape. Within this, the Library supports our community to understand and use emerging technologies, including AI, critically, effectively and ethically.

We work in partnership with academic staff and education specialists to help students develop their information literacy within their curriculum.

We also co-ordinate ‘Library Look @’, the Library’s University-wide extra-curricular programme of classes, and offer workshops within the Academic Study Skills programme.

In addition, the library provides a wide range of online learning resources which are available on the student intranet, and to staff through the Information Literacy Resource Bank.

The Library’s sixth form and further education outreach service, offers tours, workshops and resources to support pre-university students learn how to find and use academic sources for their coursework, and identify trustworthy  sources in their everyday lives.

For more information about information literacy or the Information Literacy Resource Bank, please contact the Library’s Education Support Team: