Covid-19
In the light of Covid-19, NAG Executive Committee have now taken the difficult, yet now inevitable, decision to cancel all our 2020 events. Given the massive impact of the shutdown [...]
Jisc digital archival group purchasing scheme – request for feedback
Jisc recently launched the 2019/2020 digital archival collections group purchasing scheme – offering transparent pricing, no recurring platform fees, and an automatic 20% off the Jisc-banded list prices of over [...]
Jisc digital collections resource discovery and impact workshops
Jisc is hosting a pair of one-day workshops in early December - Maximising the use of digital collections in learning and research and Measuring usage and impact with digital collections. [...]
NAG 2019 AGM
The 2019 NAG AGM will be held in Leeds on Monday 7th October at the Sheila Silver Library on Leeds Beckett University's City Campus at 3pm. All current NAG members [...]
Call for papers: NAG Public Libraries Forum
Call for Papers NAG Public Libraries Forum: Manchester 21st November 2019 Working with partners for the benefit of your community Have you recently completed a project working with partners [...]
Publication of the BIC Library Web Services Implementation Guide
We are delighted to announce the publication of the BIC Library Web Services Implementation Guide (Version 0.9), which supports implementation of the initial suite of BIC Library Web Services [...]
NAG Public Libraries Grant launched
NAG are pleased to launch their new Public Libraries Project of the Year Grant. This new grant aims to enable public libraries to take forward an innovative project, which [...]
Jisc helps the higher education sector save almost half a million, thanks to affordable digital archive collections
The digital archival collections group purchasing pilot by Jisc is now a fully-fledged scheme thanks to the success of two pilots that saved participating universities a total of £458,000. Under [...]
New issue of Taking Stock now available!
The new issue of our journal 'Taking Stock' is now available to NAG members via the website here. Articles include: The Ninth Collection Development Seminar for Academic Libraries / Anthony [...]
Spoofed invoices from nag email
Unfortunately the main nag.office@ email address has been spoofed and the spammers are sending out fake invoices with malicious viruses attached. Luckily these are being picked up as suspicious by [...]
CILIP Cataloguing & Indexing Group – Could you represent public libraries on our committee?
Are you a CILIP or CIG member who would like to join a dedicated team working on behalf of our 1000+ members in the UK and beyond? We promote the [...]
Public Libraries Forum: Stock Selection for Public Libraries
Stock Selection for Public Libraries - what do future models look like? 8th November, The Studio, Leeds Stock Selection differs radically around the country; for NAG public libraries forum we [...]