The aims of the project are:

• Develop strong links with the library service and the community in Portsmouth, promoting a greater awareness of the importance of the library and its support services through a positive experience
• Empower community and minority groups to engage with the University and local libraries in a new and innovative way
• Promote a greater social awareness among students, allowing them to utilise their talent and skills for the benefit of the city and its community through engagement with organised workshops
• Empower local residents and the student population to contribute to a collaborative creative project
• Increase use of libraries by engaging new library members, including those who haven’t used a library in traditional ways
• Encourage and develop a more pro-active relationship between the library service and service users
• Support the development of cultural activity and self-expression
• Celebrate the Visual Journal creativity in library buildings and products
• Establish a database that will support and promote the importance of sketchbooks in libraries nationally and internationally, in order to foster cross-cultural developments and projects. The aim was to promote this project not as an exclusive resource, but with the intention of sharing, networking and interweaving with others.