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Queen Camilla unveils new primary school library
Queen Camilla has opened a new library for Morland Primary School, north London, marking the 1,000th school to be transformed through the National Literacy Trust’s Libraries for Primaries campaign.
As a partner of the Libraries for Primaries initiative, we were delighted to be invited to attend the event. Andrea Quincey, Primary Literacy Director at OUP, represented us at a roundtable to take part in a discussion about the project’s future.
What is the Libraries Project?
The National Literacy Trust is an independent charity that empowers children, young people, and adults with the literacy skills they need to succeed. They work together with local communities to empower children, support schools, and campaign to make literacy a priority.
The Libraries for Primaries campaign was founded in November 2021 by the National Literacy Trust and works towards supporting primary schools in the UK’s most disadvantaged communities, by refreshing and restocking their libraries and book corners, as well as embedding reading for pleasure in teaching practice. The aim is to ensure, through different regional and national programmes and projects, that every primary school in the UK has a library or dedicated library space.
The library opened at Moreland Primary School was also the 50th primary school library supported by the Bloomberg Coronation Libraries programme, which has been set up to provide support to UK primary schools in honour of the 2023 Coronation. Over the past year, the project reinvigorated 50 primary school library spaces, and celebrates the role the Queen has played in supporting literacy projects and encouraging children to read in the year since the Coronation.
Last week, we unveiled a new library at a primary school in Oxfordshire as part of the second year of our Raise a Reader programme, also in partnership with the National Literacy Trust.
The event
On 7 May, Her Majesty unveiled a commemorative Coronation Library plaque before joining the roundtable meeting, which was chaired by Tom Mackenzie, Bloomberg News anchor, and attended by author ambassadors Cressida Cowell, Chris Smith, and Jennifer Cross.
British poet and children’s book author, Joseph Coelho, then hosted a storytelling session in the new library. He read ‘One Thousand Libraries’, which he had written for the occasion.
Finally, Queen Camilla joined storyteller, Alim Kamara, to take part in an interactive storytelling session alongside reading ambassadors and librarians from the school. After the school library was opened, every child at the school was also gifted a new book.
We have been named a finalist in the Legal Technology Awards 2026.
Oxford Law Pro, our knowledge resource for legal professionals and researchers, has been recognized in the Responsible Use of AI in Legal Services category. This recognition follows two recent award wins in the Society for Scholarly Publishing’s EPIC Awards, for both Hosting Platform Features and Branding.
Hosted by Netlaw Media, the Legal Technology Awards recognize leadership, innovation, and technology as well as the individuals, teams, and suppliers transforming the future of legal services.
The Responsible Use of AI in Legal Services category recognizes organizations that demonstrate exemplary governance, robust risk management, and strong leadership in the ethical integration of artificial intelligence.
Mirkka Jokelainen, Product Portfolio Manager, said:
“Having made the list of finalists is such a meaningful recognition of OUP’s work with legal professionals, and means a lot for the whole Oxford Law Pro team. AI is a tool which enables lawyers to benefit from our decades strong work of publishing the best legal commentary and analysis, and from the start, we have wanted to make sure the new capabilities enhance lawyers’ work and are easy to use. Responsible AI is about more than just technology. It’s about helping legal professionals access trusted expertise, realize value quickly, and adopt new capabilities with confidence.”
Winners of the Legal Technology Awards will be announced on 18 November.
About Oxford Law Pro
Launched last year, Oxford Law Pro brings together more than 9,000 journal articles and over 600 award-winning, peer-reviewed books from our portfolio of authoritative and timely legal analysis, all on our Oxford Academic platform.
Oxford Law Pro is powered by a conversational AI research assistant, developed with Silverchair, making legal research more efficient without compromising on accuracy. Unlike generic AI search tools, Oxford Law Pro employs retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) frameworks specifically tuned for legal content, ensuring responses are grounded exclusively in OUP’s authoritative materials.
The platform equips legal professionals with tools that match the realities of modern practice, and by reducing time spent on initial source identification, the AI assistant allows them to allocate more time to substantive analysis, strategic thinking, and client service.
You can find out more about Oxford Law Pro here.
“Our research into AI disclosure follows our 2024 survey, which revealed a wide range of initial perceptions towards AI. Two years on, AI use is more widespread, but there remain major differences in how researchers are adopting, applying, and disclosing these tools.
“At OUP, we’ve developed AI guidelines for authors with the view that the scholarship we publish must remain valued and protected. We regularly review these against industry guidelines and consider any feedback to ensure clear guidance for authors.
“We continue to prioritize working with the research community to develop clear publishing standards that support readers and authors in an AI-enabled world.”
We’ve launched our AI Study Assistant on Business, Politics, and Science Trove, following the successful launch of the tool on Law Trove in October 2025.
This means that all our Trove platforms now offer students enhanced functionality through AI to increase their efficiency when studying by helping them to find and engage with relevant content.
Troves—in business, law, politics, and science—offer discipline-specific collections of higher education textbooks from across our market-leading lists. Rolling out the AI Study Assistant more widely means that students from these disciplines can generate accurate summaries, authoritative answers, and targeted quizzes to support understanding, revision, and exam preparation. Moreover, responses and quizzes generated by the assistant only draw from our trusted textbook content, guaranteeing that students are accessing reliable source material.
Building on the Law Trove AI Study Assistant
To expand the tool across our other Trove platforms, we further developed the assistant to meet user needs for Science Trove.
As with Law Trove, we have taken a conscientious approach to embedding AI into Business, Politics, and Science Trove by empowering users to develop the skills they need to apply critical thinking to their use of AI not just academically, but for their future careers through the specialized module on AI literacy. The module is available for all Trove users and covers generative AI fundamentals, academic integrity, critical thinking, and effective prompting, so users can use the AI Study Assistant responsibly and with confidence.
Shaped through user testing with lecturers and students, the tool has been designed with real teaching and learning needs at its heart, ensuring that Trove stands at the forefront of combining innovative technology with high-quality educative resources for higher education institutions and students.
We look forward to hearing how students interact with the tool across Trove in the new academic year and beyond. You can learn more about the development of the AI Study Assistant and the positive reception it has had on Law Trove here.
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