ISSN 1745-5790
The list of contents for SCONUL Focus 70 can be found below.
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Editorial
Back to basics: the importance of library collections
Steve Rose
Shared value
Collaborative evidence-based ebook acquisition in Scotland
Wendy Walker and Colin Sinclair
Marketing and launching the reading lists service to academics and students
Helen Rimmer and Sian Downes
The student library reps project at Goldsmiths College
Giving students a say in our collections
Marion Harris
Patron-driven obsession
Adopting patron-driven acquisition as UWE’s sole method of e-book acquisition
Ted Spilsbury and Matt Durant
Print or e preference?
An assessment of changing patterns in content usage at Regent’s University London
Kirsty Franks
Developing a collections review framework at the University of Southampton
Jonathan Chipp
New manuscript found at City, University of London
Rob Hodgson and Simon Bralee
Rare books and printed special collections at Bangor University
Elen Simpson, Shan Robinson and Mairwen Owen
Conservation challenges at the National Library of Scotland
Isobel Griffin and Claire Thomson
Dealing with donations
The experience of the University of East London
Kelly Travers
Bibles from around the world
The Hibernian Bible Society collection at Maynooth University Library
Barbara McCormack
Managing large collections-based projects at Maynooth University
A collections perspective
Marie G. Cullen and Mary Robinson
TEiLA for Buckinghamshire New University Library
Catherine Williams
The potential of staff-less academic libraries in the UK
A thought piece
John Dowd and Mike Dainton
Project Worktribe
Moving from Eprints to Worktribe research management system and developing a repository module
Lyn Gibson, Laura Ennis and Joyce Templeton
Libraries and research support in small and teaching-led universities
Contextual problems around nascent services in dynamic times
Carly Lightfoot and Kevin Sanders
Superhero librarians are coming
Get your capes on!
Wendy Morris