Monthly themes
Each month the campaigns focused on specific themes, including:
- Race
- Gender reassignment
- Disability
- Religion and beliefs
- Sexual orientation
- Gender
- Dyslexia
- Mental health

The Reads and Rights project was a year long campaign celebrating equality and diversity in the library’s collections.
It started during Bath Spa University Equality and Diversity Week, from 26th-30th October 2015, and culminated in the Reads and Rights Media Wall Exhibition during Equality and Diversity Week in 2016.
"With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one, but no one at all, can tell you what to read and when and how."
Doris Lessing
The Reads and Rights project appeared in several national newspapers and journals during its year long campaign. Our Director of Library and Learning Services, Alison Baud, wrote a feature article for CILIP Update Magazine, the UK's leading library and information science community. She highlighted how the campaign grew out of the core values of Bath Spa University's library and how community engagement has increased as a result.
The main aim of Reads and Rights is to stimulate thinking and conversations about equality and diversity and at the same time about books, reading and libraries.
Alison Baud, Director of Library and Learning Services
Articles also appeared in The National Student, The Independent, and The Evening Standard focusing specifically on a top ten list produced as part of the campaign.
10 books that have changed the world for the better: