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Knowing our users: Understanding evolving user behaviours and expectations

A Digital Development research and discovery project to investigate changing user behaviours in an AI-enabled world Something has been on our minds for a while now. We can see clearly in our Google Analytics data that engagement with our Library website(s) and digital channels been on a downward trend since the pandemic. But numbers alone…

May 26, 2026

AIIA Insights: Official blog of the Directorate of AI and Ideas Adoption at The University of Manchester Library

Copyright: The University of Manchester

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} .headerContainer { position: relative; margin: 0 auto; background: white; z-index: 1000; width: 90%; max-width: 1140px; } .headerContent { width: 100%; padding: 0; background: white; } .mainLogo { display: inline-block; float: left; margin: 0 0 20px 0; } .mainLogo img { width: 170px; height: 71px; } .site-identifier { display: block; clear: both; /* default small screen – switch to inline-block for larger screens */ } .site-identifier p, .site-identifier a, .site-identifier a:visited, .site-identifier a:hover { font-size: 22px; color: #6B2C91; font-family: ‘Open Sans’, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none; padding: 0; } /* Footer and Chat CSS additions – KB 30-10-2015 */ .eightcol { margin-right: 3.8%; float: left; overflow: hidden; position: relative; } .eightcol img { width: 213%; } .twelvecol { width: 100%; float: left; position: relative; } .footerContainer { background: #1d1d1d; clear: both; } .footerContent { overflow: hidden; margin: 0; } /* Footer */ .footerContainer h2 {color: white;font-family: ‘Open Sans’;font-weight: 100; 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} /* Fixes for horrible bits of CSS I can’t find in this file */ @media screen and (max-width: 500px) { /* Live chat off for mobile phones */ .uom_liveChat_container { display: none; } } @media handheld and (max-width: 500px) { .mainLogo img { width: 125px !important; height: auto; } .mobile-menu-icon { display: block; float: right; margin: 0; width: 25px; height: auto; position: relative; top: -0.25em; z-index: 3000; } .mobile-menu-icon img { vertical-align: top; display: block; padding: 14px; width: 25px !important; } } @media screen and (min-width: 501px) { } @media only screen and (min-width: 600px) { /*——————*/ /* WIDTHS */ /*——————*/ /* Clear width overrides for “large mobile” */ .lastAtMobile { margin-right: 3.8%; } .halfSizeUntilLargeMobile { width: auto; } .fullSizeUntilLargeMobile { margin-bottom: 0; } /* Restore widths to correct values */ .fourcol { width: 30.8%; } .ie7 .fourcol { width: 30.6%; } .sixcol { width: 48.1%; } .ie7 .sixcol { width: 48%; } .eightcol { width: 65.4%; } /*.footerContainer .eightcol {width:100%;}*/ /* Maintain width overrides for greater sizes */ .fullSizeUntilDesktop { width: 100%!important; } /* Footer */ .footerLogos { float: left; } .footerLogos img { display: inline; margin: 0 20px 10px 0; width: auto!important; } .footerLogos p {color: white;line-height: 1.3em;font-size: 1.1em;clear: both;font-family: ‘Open Sans’;} hr { width: 100%; } .footerContainer .fourcol.last { margin: 0; padding: 0; border-top: 0; width: 30.8%; } } @media only screen and (min-width: 700px) { /*——————*/ /* WIDTHS */ /*——————*/ /* Restore widths to correct values */ .site-identifier { padding: 0 0 30px; } .fourcol.fullSizeUntilDesktop { width: 30.8%!important; } .ie7 .fourcol.fullSizeUntilDesktop { width: 30.6%!important; } .sixcol.fullSizeUntilDesktop { width: 48.1%!important; } .ie7 .sixcol.fullSizeUntilDesktop { width: 48%!important; } .eightcol.fullSizeUntilDesktop { width: 65.4%!important; } /* Show Hide Sections */ .showAtDesktop { display: block; } } @media only screen and (min-width: 800px) { } @media only screen and (min-width: 960px) { /*——————*/ /* WIDTHS */ /*——————*/ /* Restore widths to correct values */ .threecol.fullSizeUntilLargeDesktop { width: 22.15%!important; } .fourcol.fullSizeUntilLargeDesktop { width: 30.8%!important; } .ie7 .fourcol.fullSizeUntilLargeDesktop { width: 30.6%!important; } .sixcol.fullSizeUntilLargeDesktop { width: 48.1%!important; margin-bottom: 0; } .ie7 .sixcol.fullSizeUntilLargeDesktop { width: 48%!important; } .footerContainer .eightcol { width: 65.4%!important; } .footerContainer .fourcol.last { width: 30.8%!important; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-top: 0; } .showAtFullDesktop { display: block!important; } .mobile-menu-icon { display: none; } .site-identifier { clear: none; margin: 22px 0 0 50px; padding: 0; display: inline-block; } } @media only screen and (min-width: 1200px) { } @media only screen and (min-width: 1300px) { } @media only screen and (min-width: 1600px) { } /* End Footer and Chat CSS additions */

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