The final paper of the day is from Anne Welsh of Beginning Cataloguing, @beginningcat speaking about "Cataloguing 2024" - an overview of what’s happening in the field, including the continuing variety in international cataloguing standards #NAGcd14
- Of interest to @CilipMDG @BeginningCat @CilipMDG Anne Welsh has been a librarian & a cataloguer for 30 years. - Her new book Beginning Cataloguing will go to press once there are more concrete examples of RDA Application Profiles (national & institutional decisions on how metadata standards are applied). #NAGcd14

Next up: "AI vs API: exploring automated approaches to retrieving data to support purchasing decisions" with Isabel Archer, Access & Acquisitions Manager and Laura D’Silva, Acquisitions & Reading Lists Manager, University of Leeds @UniversityLeeds #NAGcd14 Exploring different approaches for retrieving data to support purchasing decisions, Leeds Acquisitions staff were tasked with compiling a recommended title list with related book reviews to help a committee select content based on set parameters #NAGcd14

Next up: "Show them you’re worth it! Using Data and technologies to measure library impact."
Sarah Pittaway, Director of Library and Learning Resources, Birmingham City University, @Dr_Sarah_P & Ken Chad, of Ken Chad Consulting @KenChad
#NAGcd14 @Dr_Sarah_P @KenChad “The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data. Sma rtphones and the internet have made data abundant, ubiquitous and far more valuable”- The Economist. 6 May 2017
#NAGcd14economist.com/news/leaders/2…

Next up: "Great Barrier Grief: taught students’ experiences of and frustrations with e-book and e-textbook platforms in HE" with Philip Barraclough, Library Data Analyst, University of Exeter Library, @ExeterUniLib #NAGcd14 Throughout the 2022/23 academic year, library staff at the University of Exeter carried out user experience research to discover how today’s taught students use e-books in their studies. #NAGcd14

We're back after the coffee break with "Demystifying AI: Practical Uses and Limits in Library Collections" presented by Siobhan Haime @Siobhan_M_HQ, Publishing Technologies Librarian, Birkbeck College, University of London – Open library of Humanities / Janeway Systems #NAGcd14 @Siobhan_M_HQ So what is AI? “[algorithm based technologies that aim to] simulate human intelligence and problem-solving capabilities” – IBM
#NAGcd14 ibm.com/topics/artific…

Next up is Theresa Thurston @TKThurston from @CCULibrary presenting: "Dumping the spreadsheet: implementing electronic resources management software at Canterbury Christ Church University" covering the implementation FolioERM (Electronic Resources Management) from @EBSCO #NAGcd14 @TKThurston @EBSCO Theresa begins with some background on Canterbury Christ Church University; founded as a Church of England college for teacher training in 1962, and granted university status in 2005 and 2009 granted power to award research degrees #NAGcd14

Our first speaker is Kevin O'Donovan (@LSELibrary) presenting "A new workflow for the acquisition and supply of accessible texts" - a walk through how LSE Library has changed its internal workflows and divisions of responsibility, around the delivery of accessible texts. #NAGcd14 @LSELibrary Acquiring content should be done by Library Acquisitions Teams even if it is designed to support library users with print disabilities of visual impairments. There may be crossover with the work of other library teams, but this is still acquisitions work! #NAGcd14

We are just starting our Free NAG Webinar: "How to Get the Most from Your Spend: An Introduction to Procurement for Librarians in Higher Education" with Gavin Phillips of @supc_uk
nag.org.uk/event/procurem… @supc_uk Today's webinar:
- SUPC & other regional consortia/groups
- What is procurement?
- Regulations
- The procurement cycle
- Tendering, frameworks & single suppliers
- Advice for librarians
- Library-related framework agreements
BUT: there is no one-size-fits-all approach!