Congratulations to our July Library of the Month, University of Leeds!
Posted 11th July 2025
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 driving usage of library content with Lean Library.
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: University of Leeds
University of Leeds, based in Yorkshire, United Kingdom is part of the Russell Group of research-intensive universities and are renowned globally for the quality of our research and teaching. They educate nearly 37,000 students and their alumni network has grown to over 320,000 worldwide.
We’ve awarded them our Library of the Month Award for July, as they are great advocates for Lean Library, and have utilized Assist Messages to convey important library guidance to students. For example, Assist Messages have been set up on Perplexity, Claude, Copilot and ChatGPT, with nearly 8,500 views across the messages – providing students with guidance at the time they need it.
We asked Alison Hazelaar, Access & Acquisitions Manager: Metadata & Discovery at University of Leeds Libraries to tell us more about what winning Library of the Month means:
“We are thrilled to be Technology from Sage’s Library of the Month! It’s wonderful to have Lean Library helping our users connect easily with the content they need both on- and off-campus. It’s like a little bit of library magic happening behind the scenes.”
Congratulations to the team at University of Leeds!
Discover our previous winners below:
- June 2025 – Concordia University Irvine
- May 2025 – Griffith University
- April 2025 – Rollins College.
- March 2025 – Zurich University of the Arts.
- February 2025 – UNT Health Science Center.
- January 2025 – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
- December 2024 – Samford University.
- November 2024 – University of Hertfordshire.
- October 2024 – The University of East Anglia.
- September 2024 – The University of Phoenix.
Could your library be next?
Join us next month to see who’s won.
