Congratulations to our Library of the Month, Zurich University of the Arts!

Each month we select a Library of the Month to honor libraries who have been using our library technologies in interesting and innovative ways, from creating well-curated reading lists with Talis Aspire to encouraging uptake of the Lean Library browser extension amongst their students. We’re also appreciating the intensive work of librarians in curating these technologies and improving learning outcomes for their students.

The winning library will be awarded a prize to share amongst their team or a donation to a charity of their choice as a way for us to say thank you.

This month’s winner is: Zurich University of the Arts

Zurich University of the Arts is one of the largest universities of the arts in Europe. The study and research programme covers the fields of art education, cultural critique, design, film, fine arts, music, dance, theatre and transdisciplinary studies. The Media and Information Centre MIZ combines the university library and its archives and holds around 300’000 media, documents and objects as well as an extensive collection of electronic resources.

We’ve awarded them our Library of the Month Award for March, as Zurich University of the Arts have been great advocates of Lean Library for a number of years. They have fantastic usage stats for Lean Library, including the Alternatives and Open Access features, ensuring their students have easy access to library resources.

We asked Simone Welti, Library Information Specialist at Zurich University of the Arts to tell us more about the university library and what winning Library of the Month meant to them:

“We have been subscribers to Lean Library since 2020 and development partners for Lean Library Futures since 2021. With Lean Library Futures we hope to increase awareness among our university members of the many great resources they have access to thanks to the library. In addition, by including services such as Lean Library Futures, we are also reassuring members that we are looking at new tools and keeping up to date with the latest technology.

We would like to thank Technology of Sage for choosing us as Library of the Month. We look forward to continuing our collaboration and seeing many new and exciting features in Lean Library Futures.”