SCONUL Focus - Number 38 Summer/Autumn 2006

ISSN 1745-5790 (online)
ISSN 1745-5782 (print)

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1 Contents
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3 The 3Ss
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4 The Learning Grid at the University of Warwick: a library innovation to support learning in higher education
Rachel Edwards
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9 The Learning Gateway: opening the doors to a new generation of learners at St Martin’s College, Carlisle campus
Margaret Weaver
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11 Middlesex University: the impressive rejuvenation of Hendon campus
Paul Beaty-Pownall
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14 Poor design equals poor health questionnaire: the final results
Jim Jackson
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20 Human resourcing in academic libraries: the ‘lady librarian’, the call for flexible staff and the need to be counted
A. D. B. MacLean, N. C. Joint
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26 Taking steps that make you feel dizzy: personal reflections on module 1 of the Future Leaders programme
John Cox, Annie Kilner, Dilys Young
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30 Evolution: the Oxford trainee scheme
Gill Powell, Katie Robertson
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34 A week in the life
Kim McGowan
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36 Got the knowledge? Focusing on the student: Manchester Metropolitan University’s (MMU) library welcome campaign
David Matthews, Emily Shields, Rosie Jones, Karen Peters
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41 Ask the audience: e-voting at the University of Leeds
Lisa Foggo, Susan Mottram, Sarah Taylor
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44 Information literacy, the link between second and tertiary education: project origins and current developments
Christine Irving
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47 Review of how libraries are currently supporting the research process
Ruth Stubbings, Joyce Bartlett, Sharon Reid
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51 Researchers, information and libraries: the CONUL national research support survey
John Cox
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55 Creating a new Social Science Library at Oxford University based on reader consultation
Louise Clarke
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58 The use of personal scanners and digital cameras within OULS reading rooms
Steve Rose, Gillian Evison
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60 Copyright, digital resources and IPR at Brunel University
Monique Ritchie
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64 Secure electronic delivery: ‘get the world’s knowledge with less waiting’
Alison E. Redpath
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66 Introducing federated search at LJMU: impact on usage statistics and user perceptions
Sarah Robbins, Maria Kilroy
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69 The electronic information desk at Leeds Met
Robin Cook
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72 Education resources in an e-learning environment
Sal Craw, Emily Wade
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73 The best of the web just got better: introducing Intute
Lisa Charnock
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77 Creating a new corporate visual identity at the University of Lincoln Library
Lesley M Thompson, Lys Ann Reiners
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79 Universal Access by Design: a visual approach to accessing book stock
Julia Waite
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83 Charter Mark can change your life!
Stephanie Ensinger, Dawn Grundy
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85 What is the meta-quality of your library?
Frankie Wilson
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89 World-wide horizons: a season of world-class film at Leeds Metropolitan University
Julie Brett, Maria Kulas
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93 Increasing awareness and access to special collections and archives at the University of Liverpool
Maureen Watry
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95 Thinking the unthinkable: disaster planning for the M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries
Christine Wise
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98 Inspire with a slight twist in Wolverhampton
Elizabeth Oddy
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101 News from SCONUL
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104 ‘The future’s now’ SCONUL Conference, 21 – 23 June 2006, Newcastle upon Tyne
Conference reviewed by Antony Brewerton
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114 The SCONUL Value and Impact Measurement Programme (VAMP): a progress report
Stephen Town
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117 Library trends
Claire Creaser
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119 CURL/SCONUL digest of scholarly communication news
Fredrick J. Friend
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124 Report from the SCONUL/CILIP Health Services Group (HSG)
Ian Snowley
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125 News from member libraries
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139 Quality assurance in higher education: mission (im)possible
Jeremy Atkinson
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141 All change: delivering library services to disabled students in a changing context
Mary Bird, Emily Heath, Alice Hine
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145 New publication by university library & learning services, Northumbria University
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146 Online Information Conference
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147 Advice for authors
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