Acquisitions and the Accelerated Shift to Digital in Academic Libraries in the UK: Reflecting on the Covid Experience at De Montfort University and Imperial College London. Issue 3 (3rd July 2021)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Acquisitions and the Accelerated Shift to Digital in Academic Libraries in the UK: Reflecting on the Covid Experience at De Montfort University and Imperial College London. Issue 3 (3rd July 2021)
- Main Title:
- Acquisitions and the Accelerated Shift to Digital in Academic Libraries in the UK: Reflecting on the Covid Experience at De Montfort University and Imperial College London
- Authors:
- Brine, Alan
Knight, Andrew - Abstract:
- Abstract: Summer 2020 witnessed a large-scale temporary release of content from the publishing community to support UK universities as they moved to online-only delivery, followed by a scramble by those institutions to maintain access to resources. This paper reflects on the experiences of De Montfort University and Imperial College libraries during this period as they supported the move to remote teaching. It focuses on the complexities experienced during this transitional period, and considers how the speed of these changes increased staff workloads, stretched budgets, and compelled acquisitions teams to act without always fully gathering evidence or strategically planning how new practices might work in the longer term. The authors, who sit on various national contract management and acquisitions strategy groups, examine the repercussions of navigating from an unplanned, accelerated digital shift to a more managed, sustainable paradigm, and contemplate how the advent of multimode teaching may impact on the way libraries are resourced.
- Is Part Of:
- New review of academic librarianship. Volume 27:Issue 3(2021)
- Journal:
- New review of academic librarianship
- Issue:
- Volume 27:Issue 3(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 27, Issue 3 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 27
- Issue:
- 3
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0027-0003-0000
- Page Start:
- 380
- Page End:
- 396
- Publication Date:
- 2021-07-03
- Subjects:
- Covid -- ebooks -- academic libraries -- etextbooks -- online learning
Academic libraries -- Great Britain -- Periodicals
Library science -- Great Britain -- Periodicals
027.705 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/racl20 ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/13614533.2021.1976231 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1361-4533
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