SCONUL representatives' top concerns survey 2006

3 April, 2006

The SCONUL Executive Board recently repeated the Top Concerns exercise which we first ran at the end of 2004 asking SCONUL Representatives to identify their three top concerns or issues having a serious impact on the services during the previous three months. This time round there were 80 responses to the survey from a wide spread of members - an encouraging increase of 65% over 2004.

Again there were quite a high number of common concerns. The most common responses grouped were around four themes:
• Planning and strategy including implementation
• Space issues
• Implementing self-issue and return service
• Digital deposit and repository development

For full details on the Top Concerns Findings go to the Working Group on Communications and marketing