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    At the heart of the library’s vision ‘The Library Towards 2025’ is our ambition to be a library that is connected, that goes beyond providing just a service and a building and to work in partnership with all our Lancaster University communities, which includes providing students with opportunities to work with the library and have a central role in its development.

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Living Library

The library hosted the first “Living Library” at Lancaster University at the end of the Lent term.
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Trailblazers: exciting new OA initiative in partnership with Liverpool University Press, The University of Liverpool, and The University of Salford

Trailblazers is a new open access initiative for the rising stars of their disciplines.

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First Monograph published Open Access by the Library’s Pilot Institutional Open Access Fund

The library is delighted to announce the publication of the first Open Access monograph made possible by funding from the Pilot Institutional Open Access Fund.  
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Library Careers Event for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic students, staff and public

Join us on Wednesday 6th March to find out more about the diverse range of roles that are available at university libraries, listen to the experiences of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic library staff and network with a wide range of people across the national library sector.
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New UKRI Open Access Policy for Longform outputs (Monographs, Book Chapters and Edited Collections) Policy

A new Open Access policy for Monographs, Book chapters and edited collections will come into effect on the 1st of January 2024. 
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Opening of the Archives Research Centre

On the 7th November we officially open our new Archives Research Centre (or ARC). The launch event was attended by people from across the University and representatives for local heritage organisations.

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