SCONUL Focus - Number 45, 2009

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

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1 Contents
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3 The Subject Librarian issue
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4 It's all up for grabs: developing a new role for the acadeic liaison team at NTU
Clifford Neal, Heather Parsonage, Heather Shaw
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8 Academic Support at Leeds Metropolitan Library
Kirsty Carver, Lindsay Joyce, Fiona Middleton, Alison Park, Sue Smith
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12 Changing times: the changing role of assistant librarians in DIT's Aungier St library
Alison Kavanagh
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15 S.O.S - Supporting Other Students: the role of student library ambassadors at Southampton Solent University
Graeme Barber
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20 The evolving information professional: the changing role of the Open University subject librarian
Katharine Reedy, Duncan Belk
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24 The changing nature of subject liaison at St Mary's University College, Twickenham
Jonathan Lucas, Frank Quick
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27 Reflecting roles: being a successful subject liaison librarian in a changing environment
Christopher Cipkin, David Stacey
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31 Whilst we are on the subject: experiences and reflections of a medical subject librarian
Nancy Graham
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34 Academic liaison librarians - where do we stand?
Alice Crawford
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37 Changing roles for changing times: experience from the LJMU off-campus team
Cath Marlowe, Rosie Diver
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41 Departure from the library desk! One undergraduate programme's story of its subject librarian's evolving role
Suzanne Gibson, Julie Luxton
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45 UCL subject librarians get WISE in Moodle
Angela Jefkins
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48 Delivering academic support at the University of Sussex Library
Emma Walton, Jane Harvell
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50 Research support at the University of Glasgow library
Susan Ashworth
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52 How I became a 'liaison' librarian
Mark Tynan
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55 A week in the life of a subject librarian - with a difference!
Helen Riley
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58 All that David Copperfield kind of c**p
Pat Noon
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64 From Saturday assistant to Chartered Librarian: a case study in career development
Pam Young
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66 The academic writing toolkit: writing for professional and peer-reviewed journals
Helen Fallon
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72 Peer observation and information skills teaching: feel the fear and do it anyway!
Sarah Castle
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76 Managing, marketing, maximising: creating an information resources development policy to further academic-library relations
Valerie Kendlin
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78 Hidden treasures revealed at Liverpool John Moores University
Valerie Stevenson
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81 Exploiting special collections: using digital methods to enhance their research and learning potential
Stella Butler
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86 Obtaining accessible alternative-format materials for print-impaired students
Aly Peacock, Paul Conway, Lois Burt, Chris Beevers, Audrey Cobb
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90 Make the numbers count: improving students' learning experiences
Jan Conway, Tania Olsson, Nick Veale
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94 Using survey and usage statistics to improve libraries
Phil Sykes
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100 'LIS - serious about research': focus groups with research staff at Swansea University
Katrina Dalziel, Rachael Whitfield
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104 A good year for the RIN
Sarah Gentleman
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108 NoWAL's fifth - a symphony of success
Peter M. Wynne
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113 Building on collaboration: the WHELF e-book deal
Jeremy Atkinson, Paul Riley
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117 Set your library staff free with RFID: a case study from Cardiff University
Linda Davies, Lindsay Roberts
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122 Beyond DECs
Chris Moon
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125 Library services for all ages, all abilities, and all levels - welcome to Buxton!
Maria Carnegie
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128 SCONUL working group on information literacy
Alison Mackenzie
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130 CILIP/SCONUL Health Strategy Group
Kath O'Donovan
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131 RLUK/SCONUL digest of scholarly communication news
Frederick J. Friend
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137 Building for the Future
David Perrow
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139 'Designing Libraries' - progress report on 2008
Alan J. Clark
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142 Adding value to the SCONUL Performance Portal
Tracey Stanley
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144 The National Student Survey: pain or gain?
Tracey Stanley
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148 SCONUL Canadian study tour 27 September - 11 October 2008
Maxine Melling
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155 New opportunities for startegic engagement
Antony Brewerton
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158 NoWAL conference, 'Up close and personal: our changing roles in a digital learning age'
Leo Appleton
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159 Now that's what I call Library 2.0: The CILIP Multimedia, Information and Technology Group Conference
Leo Appleton
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160 The Library in the twenty-first century
Reviewed by Valerie Stevenson
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161 Reader development in practice: bringing literature to readers
Reviewed by Valerie Stevenson
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163 New Publications
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163 News from member libraries
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168 NEEO
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169 Advice for authors
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