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Category: Accessibility and Inclusion

Love to Read Collection launches in the Templeman Library

By Julia Crompton | 27 July 2022

We are thrilled to announce the creation of a new ‘Love to read’ Collection in the Templeman Library, housed in the Library Café. We’ve create … Read more

Celebrate Pride month with Templeman Library

By Sarah Field | 09 June 2022

To mark pride month this June, we have pulled together a number of resources celebrating the positive visibility of the LGBTQIA+ communities. If you are … Read more

Join the Templeman Library book club and expand your horizons!

By Julia Crompton | 21 February 2022

We run regular book clubs both in the Templeman Library and online where we aim to open new literary worlds for you to discover, outside … Read more

Welcome to the WelcoME service – supporting disabled customers in the Templeman Library

By Julia Crompton | 24 November 2021

What is WelcoMe? Are you a disabled person planning to visit the Templeman Library? Do you have concerns or anxieties about how the experience will … Read more

Diversifying your resources gets a little easier

By Sarah Field | 23 September 2021

The library is committed to developing diverse and inclusive collections. We do this through our support of the Diversity Mark award at Kent and also … Read more

Diversity collection from ProQuest

By Sarah Field | 23 September 2021

The library has access to a collection of over 2000 e-books from ProQuest for 2021/2022 to help us diversify our library collections. This customised collection … Read more

Accessibility and inclusion news: Accessibility requests

By Josie Caplehorne | 24 August 2021

Imagine that a newly built public building doesn’t have step free access. Instead, a flight of stairs leads to the front door. The building exists … Read more

Accessibility and inclusion news: Technical improvements to our institutional and data repositories

By Liam Green-Hughes | 09 August 2021

  Both the Kent Academic Repository (KAR) and the Kent Data Repository (KDR) have been around for some time but needed work to improve accessibility.  … Read more

Accessibility and inclusion news: developing our EPrints institutional repository

By Suzanne Duffy | 12 February 2021

Previously in Accessibility and inclusion news we shared information about creating accessibility statements for our repositories and open journal systems.  Here’s what we’ve been working … Read more

Accessibility and Inclusion News

By Josie Caplehorne | 20 October 2020

We’ve created this blog to keep you updated about the work we’re doing to embed accessibility and inclusive practices at the heart of Research Support.  … Read more

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