Collection Development and Management Policy

1. We are committed to developing diverse and inclusive collections that reflect the richness of thought, ideas and experience from across our user communities

2. We provide content in the most appropriate format for the purposes of improved accessibility and availability

3. We manage our collections to ensure they align with University learning, teaching and research needs

4. We collaborate with our user communities and use feedback to help us develop our collections

5. We are committed to the principles of open access publishing and open research, and incorporate open content into our collections

6. We take advantage of innovations in search and discovery tools in order to facilitate improving access to our collections

7. We manage our existing collection strengths and develop new strengths in order to maintain their national or international importance

8. We proactively promote our collections in order to communicate their value to our user communities

9. We engage in cooperative decision-making with other libraries and within library consortia

10. We balance the requirement for space for physical resources against the space required for learning and scholarship

Intellectual Freedom Statement

Our commitment is to develop collections that meet the educational and research needs of the university. Our aim to acquire and provide access to a wide variety of resources does not imply our endorsement of any statements or opinions contained therein. 

We adhere to the Research Libraries UK (RLUK) statement on intellectual freedom, its endorsement to the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Statement on Libraries and Intellectual Freedom”, and support its ambition to “acquire, organise and disseminate information freely and oppose any form of censorship.