Congratulations to our June Library of the Month, Concordia University Irvine!

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: Concordia University Irvine

Concordia University Irvine (CUI) is a private, nonprofit Christian university located in Irvine, California, United States. They educate nearly 5,000 students on campus and online, and their alumni network has grown to over 25,000 worldwide.

We chose CUI as June’s Library of the Month as one of the first institutions to turn on our newly launched Lean Library Workspace feature to support its students across the entire research journey – from content discovery and access through to reference management, project collaboration and authoring work.

We asked Regina Powers, Library Director at CUI to tell us more about the university library and Lean Library:

“In fall of 2024, we set up Lean Library as a fresh way to connect learners to content. Concordia students appreciated the flexibility of being able to conduct research outside of the library’s search box. We have only just begun demonstrating the functionality of the new all-in-one Lean Library Workspace. But already students, especially graduate students, are excited about how much time they will save using Workspace to find, organize, annotate, and cite their research and include it in their writing projects. We plan to introduce Lean Library Workspace to faculty as a potential formative assessment tool. When added to a student’s Workspace project, faculty will be able to view and/or collaborate on their students’ research progress. (There will be no need to wonder if AI has done the work. Instructors will be able to view the student-selected articles linked up to their Workspace project.)

Concordia University Irvine is honored to be recognized as Library of the Month. We are beyond grateful to be partnering with Technology from Sage now and into the future.”

Congratulations to the team at CUI!

Discover our previous winners below:

• 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.