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Taking Stock: Navigating the way into the Good Books (28:2)
The April 2020 edition of Taking Stock (28:2) is available to NAG Members to view online. This issue includes: Jennie Hillyard NAG: a hive of activity Karen Colbron [...]
ProQuest Books Acquisition Survey
The landscape for book acquisition in UK academic libraries continues to evolve in these times of accelerated change. ProQuest would like to invite you to take part in research into [...]
FREE public library membership
In recognition of the severe spending cuts facing public libraries due to the pandemic, NAG is pleased to announce that membership for public libraries in the UK will [...]
JISC: Access to digital archival collections
Do you need to negotiate licences for digital archives? Then please take a look at Jisc's new guide for negotiating favourable terms with publishers. There is also an introductory blog [...]
Dawsons/Bertrams in Administration
The Bertrams group went into administration on 19th June affecting Dawson Books and Bertram Books. Many Librarians were concerned over how this will impact their collections, particularly those with [...]
eTextbooks Webinar with BibliU discussing UAA
UAA Webinar We were pleased to present a webinar on 11th June 2020 discussing eTextbooks and User Activated Acquisition with BibliU, De Montfort University and Liverpool University. [...]
Webinars: copyright and online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic
These weekly webinars hosted by the Association of Learning Technology (ALT) started on Friday 20th March in response to queries largely from those in higher education related to copyright and [...]
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 [...]
NAG cd11 Follow up
Thank you to everyone who attended #NAGcd11 in Manchester this week; it was a great mix of new faces and NAG old-timers providing some fantastic networking opportunities for everyone. Our [...]
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. [...]