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.

6. Social responsibility Aim: To promote public access to our campuses and support appropriate use of our facilities by schools.

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, but piecemeal Photo: KEN: Wikimedia Commons Visits before Piecemeal activity No consistency in offering No inclusion of local widening participation target schools

9. Librarians Widening participation staff Academic staff Collaboration within the University

10. Collaboration beyond the University

16. Visits

19. Academic Staff Involvement

20. Visits and activities need to be timely and curriculum related Collect feedback and produce results Work closely together to promote opportunities with school leaders

21. Future Primary school visits to the libraries Work placements for local students Outreach visits to “Into University” centres

22. Future Community engaged research

23. Questions? Reflections? Comments?