SCONUL Focus - Number 42 Winter 2007

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

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1 Contents
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3 An international focus
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4 LIBER: the Association of European Research Libraries
Peter Fox
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7 EBLIDA: lobbying for libraries in Europe
Andrew Cranfield
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8 The 2007 LibQUAL Canada Consortial Survey
Sam Kalb
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17 The Australian scene
Andrew Wells and Diane Costello
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19 Co-operation amongst Lithuanian academic librarians to increase and promote access to information
Irena Kriviėnė and Žibutė Petrauskienė
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23 eIFL.net: empowering libraries and strengthening the information society in developing and transition countries
Isabel Bernal
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26 ALIS Wales
Gillian Price
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28 Can information literacy motivate students to become global citizens?
Mary Antonesa
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30 The development of information literacy skills to support a changing postgraduate research environment: an Irish experience
Helen Fallon and Mary Antonesa
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33 NEEO and Economists Online
Hans Geleijnse and Peter Williams
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35 Creating an institutional repository at the University of Liverpool: our approach
Shirley Yearwood Jackman
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38 Brunel University Research Archive - a year in the life of an institutional repository
John Murtagh
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42 Taking the pain out of your RSS
Joe Hilton and Roddy MacLeod
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44 To PB or not PB: making wikis work for your library
James Fisher and Susan Smith
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46 E-books and everything after: an update from the NoWAL experience
Peter M. Wynne and Annette Coates
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50 Reducing book theft at university libraries
Daren Mansfield
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53 Laptop loans in UCD Library
Lorna Dodd and Samantha Drennan
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57 Promoting green issues and sustainability in UK higher education libraries
Philip Payne and Emma Blakey
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61 Why market? Introducing a marketing approach at the University of Lincoln Library
Lys Ann Reiners and Lesley Thompson
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63 Big Bens and time beings - freshers' festival 2007 at Leeds Metropolitan
Helen Loughran and Aly Peacock
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64 From cloisters to COPAC: cathedral libraries and the higher education community
Keith O’Sullivan
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66 Out of the shadows: the introduction of a shadowing programme for staff at Anglia Ruskin University Library
Jenny Cefai, Yvonne Bradbury, Pauline Finney and Theresa Crawforth
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70 Recognition for your library? Continuing Professional Development programmes - a new award from CILIP
Heather Taylor
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72 News from SCONUL
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74 SCONUL’s International Strategy
Michael Breaks
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76 SCONUL Annual Study Tour: South Africa, August 2007
John MacColl
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83 ’Cross Canada check-up’: the SCONUL/CARL exchange of experience seminar
Reviewed by Antony Brewerton
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85 Digital Services for a digital world: adapting academic libraries to a digital environment, SCONUL Autumn Conference, 2007
Reviewed by Antony Brewerton and Valerie Stevenson
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89 Library buildings projects and partnerships: making them work for all of the stakeholders
Reviewed by Carol Kay
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90 The SCONUL Library Design Award 2007 - how it was for me
Philippa Dyson
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92 SCONUL Library Design Awards
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94 SCONUL Working Group on Information Literacy - the direction of travel for the working group for a few years
Jan Howden
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96 CURL/SCONUL digest of scholarly communication news
Frederick J. Friend
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101 First International m-libraries conference, 13-14 November 2007
Sam Dick
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102 News from member libraries
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118 Advice for authors
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