Love Libraries: Library Discovery Trail

Throughout Book Week Scotland (Monday 17th November-Friday 21st November) we will be running events in the Library building to celebrate the coordinated Love Libraries campaign for all Scottish University Libraries.

We'd love for you to take part and enter into our prize draw!  It's easy to join in, and you can either complete the discovery trail in the Library building or online through the Library website.

In the Library building

Pop into the building Monday 17th November and Friday 21st November and you'll be able to collect a printed quiz with 10 questions for you to complete and submit.

The questions will also be posted around the Library and there will be posters with lots of information about the services, support, tools, and systems we provide.  Look out for the Love Libraries branding!

Once completed, you can post your quiz into the submission boxes provided and all correct quizzes received, will be entered into the prize draw.

Online via the Library Website

If you can't make it into the building to complete the discovery trail in person, don't worry!  You can still complete the quiz and enter into our prize draw.  The online Microsoft Form will be available from Monday 17th November and you can submit a completed form until Friday 21st November.  All correct submissions will be entered into the prize draw.

Terms and Prizes

Entries are limited to Abertay staff and students, and only one entry per person is permitted.

5 winners will be picked at random from all correct entries and will be contacted by Library Services.

1 overall winner will receive a £20 Amazon voucher + a Love Libraries goodie bag donated by the National Library of Scotland.

4 further winners will each receive a £20 Amazon voucher

Paper Trail in the Library Building

The entry forms will be available in the Library during Book Week Scotland - Monday 17th November to Friday 21st November.

Paper copies of the quiz which you complete and post in the designated boxes in the Library building are your entry into the Library Discovery Treasure Trail prize draw.

Online Discovery Trail and Microsoft Form

There is also an online version of the quiz available as a Microsoft Form - that will be available for submission from Monday 17th November.  You can complete the quiz online by following a digital discovery trail via the Library website.  

The online form is now closed.  Winners will be contacted by Library Services shortly.

All completed correct entries will be entered into our prize draw.

Prizes are:

• 1 x NLS Love Libraries goodie bag + £20 Amazon voucher for the overall winner
• 4 x £20 Amazon vouchers for a further four winners

Good luck!

Love Libraries is a nationwide campaign to encourage more people to join libraries and make use of all they have to offer. It focuses on the impact and value of libraries everywhere.

The National Library of Scotland (NLS) is championing a nationwide "Love Libraries" campaign to celebrate and promote the value of libraries across Scotland. Launched during the NLS's 100th anniversary, the campaign aims to encourage public appreciation and use of all types of libraries, from community and school to university libraries. It highlights that libraries offer more than books, including community spaces, skills training, and digital access, while encouraging people to share their positive library experiences. 

The campaign is a collaboration between the NLS, CILIPS, the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC), the Association of Public Libraries Scotland (APLS), and the Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries (SCURL).

Love Libraries Case Study:

Read the CILIPS Love Libraries Case Study

Stakeholder quote: why we should love libraries:

"My parents couldn’t afford books but they understood they were the passport to better life chances than they’d had. But it’s not just writers who have their doors opened to the wider world by libraries. Engineers, lawyers, builders, artists, geographers, mathematicians, musicians… the list is endless. Libraries open windows that let us all fly.”– Val McDermid, best-selling author of the Wire in the Blood series and Karen Pirie novel

We welcome your feedback and suggestions on all areas of the Library Service. 

Please contact us: library@abertay.ac.uk