Our IT and Library staff have won the 2016 National Acquisitions Group (NAG) Excellence Award for a project on delivering digital documents to our European Study Centres.
Students and staff in Athens, Brussels, Paris and Rome can now request scanned copies of articles and book chapters, if they are not available electronically through LibrarySearch or in local libraries.
As part of this project, we also:
- worked with students and academic colleagues to design this process
- launched a European View of LibrarySearch
- created a collection development policy for the European Study Centres.
The project was a real group effort, with colleagues in many different teams working together to deliver it. They include staff in Academic Liaison Services (Anna Miller, Jane Alderson-Rice, Justine Rush, Lesley Lawrence, Louise Price, Rachel Bode, Sue Bucklow, Theresa Thurston), Collections Management (Matthias Werner), Copyright (Chris Morrison), Infrastructure (Matthew Slowe), Learning and Research Development (Liam Green-Hughes, Stewart Brownrigg), Lending Services (Kaidi Goke), Publishing (Angela Groth-Seary), and Requirements (Tim Jenkins).
The NAG Excellence Award, which was sponsored by Nielsen Book, celebrates success and innovation in library acquisitions.