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: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam is a large university with 9 faculties, more than 150 bachelor’s programs, pre-master and master programs with 31,761 students, of which 19,736 are Bachelor students and 12,025 are Master students. The university’s motto is: Don’t just become something, become someone. Since its founding in 1880, VU has stood for scientific and values-driven education, research and valorization.
We’ve awarded them our Library of the Month Award for January, as the library team are committed to supporting their students find the research they need at the right time, directly in patron workflows. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam are great advocates of both Lean Library and Talis Aspire and presented a session on the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) at the inaugural Tech from Sage Insight Conference in 2023.
We asked Cees van Gent, Head of Department, Educational Support, University Library (Afdelingshoofd, Onderwijsondersteuning Universiteitsbibliotheek) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam to tell us more about the university library and what winning Library of the Month meant to them:
“Winning this award is a confirmation of our mission to support our academic staff and students in finding and using the content/learning materials they need for their research, lectures, and studies.
We try to support our end users where and when needed by providing them tools like Lean Library that can bring our services into the user’s workflow. We work together with parties such as Technology from Sage to develop and deliver this.
More information about how we work with Technology from Sage is to be found in this case study.”
Congratulations to Cees, Jochem and the team at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Library!
Discover our previous winners below:
- 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.
