Schools, departments and student societies within the University of St Andrews can ask the Library estate to help publicise their content. This can involve raising awareness for a society, publicising an event, or highlighting a particular theme. We will also review requests representing student entrepreneurial activity and community interest information on a case-by-case basis.

We can help in the following ways: distribution of posters in Library spaces; inclusion on our display screens in the Main Library and Library at the Gateway; collaborating on themed book displays; sharing on social media. More information for each of these is below.

The library retains right of refusal for all publicity materials/themed displays/etc displayed in our buildings and through our online presence. In the rare event that content is deemed unsuitable, the library may suggest changes to reach a compromise, but we will not alter any materials you have provided.

There is no charge for the library to share your content.

If you have any questions or would like further information about publicising something in the library, please email: library@st-andrews.ac.uk.

POSTERS

• Posters can be displayed on the notice boards in the Main Library café, St Mary's College Library, the JF Allen Library and Martyr's Kirk subject to space being available.
• Once your request has been accepted you can leave up to 4 copies of posters (either at the Help Desk in the Main Library or send through internal mail FAO User Services, Main Library). All posters must be portrait and A4 and should be printed out.
• Please get in touch with a sample/PDF before printing multiple copies out.
• Send requests at least 1 week in advance of any event.

DISPLAY SCREENS

Images

• Static images are displayed in rotation with other material. Each image is shown for 40 seconds.
• On the image, include the name of the society, unit, department, contact details (so people can contact you directly about your event), dates, times and venues.
• Images must be landscape and 16:9 aspect ratio (we suggest you make up your image on a standard PowerPoint slide and save as an image file before submitting).
• Send file as an image: jpeg, png etc. (not as a PDF, PowerPoint or Word file) to library@st-andrews.ac.uk

Videos

• Our screens have no capability for sound, so all videos must be silent.
• The maximum length of a video is 2 minutes, though we’d suggest you aim for them to be shorter, to keep people’s attention. 1 minute is usually better than 2.
• Make it clear what your affiliation or connection with the University is.

THEMED DISPLAYS

• The Main Library has a number of spaces available for themed book displays. These frequently relate to University events, national dates of note, or general themes of interest.
• There are two general options in terms of size of display and number of books required – roughly either 15 or 25 titles, depending on the number of other materials such as posters.
• Once a list of titles and materials have been agreed upon, we will install the display on an agreed date. If you’d like to install the display yourself/help arrange things, this can be agreed on, time-depending.
• You can include headers or posters with your display to highlight the theme. The library can help with designing and printing these if needed.
• Depending on the theme/size, displays are usually installed for between 2 weeks and 1 month.
• For further information, please get in touch via library@st-andrews.ac.uk to request the ‘Main Library display guidance’.

SOCIAL MEDIA

• If you’re sharing content via Instagram and would like us to help reach more people, feel free to tag us, or share the post, and we can spread the word via Stories.