Benefits of SCONUL membership for libraries and their users

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About SCONUL

For more detail about our activities visit the following:

Introduction
Aims
History
Benefits
Membership
Constitution
Annual Report
Groups

On behalf of all members, SCONUL

  • manages reciprocal access and borrowing schemes for library users
  • works to improve information handling skills
  • shares experience of innovative library design and imaginative learning spaces and many other aspects of library operations
  • collects and publishes statistics from our member libraries, enabling benchmarking and other comparative analysis
  • engages with parliaments and government departments in Westminster, Brussels and Strasbourg, to emphasise the needs of academic and research libraries in legislation.

Our aim is to do well cooperatively what is efficient to undertake together