2. Transforming the campus
• Constructed in 2015
• Designed by ADP
• £27M budget
• 3,667 square metres
• 1,023 seats
3. Transforming the
learning environment
• Undergraduate-focused library
• Core readings
• 146,000 printed volumes
• Skills@Library service desk
• Mix of group and individual study
spaces
• Teaching space across three teaching
rooms
• Café
• Community space
4. Transforming student
behaviour
• Laidlaw sees c.800,000 entrances
per year
• A total of 3.2M visits since the
Library was opened – or one visitor
every 20 seconds
• The building contains 1/5th of library
study spaces, but accounts for 1/3rd
of all traffic
5. Transforming the future
• Flexible space built with future
trends in mind
• Innovations in the Laidlaw –
furniture, technology, and design –
have been applied elsewhere on
campus
• Opened the door to service
innovation