March 24, 2025
This is our fourth annual round up edition of Taking Stock which includes our NAG events of 2024.
In this issue:
Papers from our 14th Collection Development Seminar for Academic Librarians:
Academic Libraries Seminar 2024 / Phil Barraclough
Dumping the Spreadsheet: implementing electronic resources management software / Theresa Thurston
Demystifying AI: practical uses and limits in library collections / Siobhan Haime
Great Barrier Grief: taught students’ experiences of and frustrations with ebook and etextbook platforms in HE / Phil Barraclough
Show them you’re worth it: using data and technologies to measure library impact / Sarah Pittaway
AI vs API: exploring automated approaches to retrieving data to support purchasing decisions / Laura D’Silva and Isabel Benton
Papers from our 2024 Public Libraries Forum
Public Libraries Forum 2024 / Emily Davis
Language Barrier Breakers / Anna Homer
Introduction to Inter-Library Loans and considerations for building your own service / Sarah Hornby and Helen Hall
Libraries Unlimited: The Secret Book Quest / Kate Turner
NAG Webinars 2024
A NAG Webinar on How to Give a Webinar / Andrew Knight and Jack Reid.
Redressing the Balance: getting historically under-represented composers and contemporary environmental concerns into library stock / Karen McAulay.
Introduction to NAG and what your membership can do for you / Jack Reid and Jennie Hillyard
Review Review Review – conducting a thorough review of reading lists in Leganto / Jeff Miller
Copim: Open Book Futures / Joe Deville
A Strategic framework for supporting open access monographs: library acquisitions principles and assessment criteria / Emma Booth
MEMO to shelf – creating a bespoke selection of Open Access books from the OAPEN library / Ronald Snijder
Transformational Technologies: using technology to support health and wellbeing / John Carter
MetadataMatters / Will Peaden,Fran Frenzel, Concetta La Spada, Ceilan Hunter-Green, Jenny Wright and Gail Beadnell
Fancy a Brew? / Jeff Miller
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