March 30, 2026
Out now for NAG Members is “NAG: Fabulous at Forty” – issue 33 of our journal Taking Stock.
This is our fifth annual round up edition of Taking Stock which includes our NAG events of 2025.
In this issue:
Papers from our 15th Collection Development Seminar for Academic Librarians:
Academic Libraries Seminar 2025 / Elle Lund
Life Cycle of the Book at York St John University / Chloe Beswick
Cinematic Content: from VHS to hosted Film at the University of Manchester Library / Ruth Burns
Small Pools, Big Fish: rethinking ebook acquisition for small user groups / Richard Cleverley
Introducing and refining an accessible ebooks policy at Cambridge / Rebecca Gower and Jayne Kelly
Shaping Student Engagement in a Changing World / Sjoukje Schots and Natasha Edmonds
Panel Session: Reading lists, purchasing & licensing: strategies for librarians and academics to break down barriers / Siobhan Haime, Caroline Ball, Jane Saunders, Costas Loizou
Papers from our 2025 Public Libraries Forum
Public Libraries Forum 2025 / Alison Harland
40 Years of NAG: 30 Years of BDS / Sarah Armitage
The Travelling Cinema / Sam Whitehouse
See Myself in Books: Championing Diverse and Inclusive Books / Katie Ponting
NAG Webinars 2025
Taking Stock provides write ups of the webinars below but you can also watch the recordings (open access) at the links below if you prefer:
Data Driven Decisions: Leveraging Article Galaxy Scholar for smarter collection development / Tony Landolt, Dr Rachel Schulkins, Kath Halfpenny, Helen Hall.
Copim and Acquisitions Librarians present… Beyond Buying Books: rethinking content acquisition in unstable times / Lucy Barnes, Andrew Knight, Matt Cox, Sharon Stevens, Kevin Sanders
Reading Between the Lines: promoting diversity and inclusion through curated book displays / Dean Brown, Beth Lanigan, Cameron Fragoso
Metadata in Partnership: Manchester University Press and the University Library working together / Emma Booth, Beth Price, Kate Horton, Jen Mellor, Jessica Thompson.
What doesn’t come shelf ready and what do cataloguers do with it? / Anne Welsh
Beyond the Stacks: a sneak peek into library staff engagement with job shadowing / Ayesha Thompson, Chris Addleton, Cristina Rusu
The Caring Library: championing carers in the workplace, community and collections / Tim Buckle