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

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dc.cclicenceCC-BY-NC-NDen
dc.contributor.authorBrine, Alan
dc.contributor.authorKnight, Andrew
dc.date.acceptance2021-09-07
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-28T08:44:54Z
dc.date.available2022-04-28T08:44:54Z
dc.date.issued2021-09-07
dc.descriptionThe file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.en
dc.description.abstractSummer 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.en
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dc.identifier.citationBrine, A. and Knight, A. (2021) 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. New Review of Academic Librarianship, 27 (3), pp. 380-396en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/13614533.2021.1976231
dc.identifier.issn1740-7834
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2086/21851
dc.language.isoenen
dc.peerreviewedYesen
dc.publisherTaylor and Francisen
dc.subjectcoviden
dc.subjectebooksen
dc.subjectacademic librariesen
dc.subjectetextbooksen
dc.subjectonline learningen
dc.titleAcquisitions and the accelerated shift to digital in academic libraries in the UK: reflecting on the Covid experience at De Montfort University and Imperial College Londonen
dc.typeArticleen

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