Supporting our members

SCONUL advocates effectively for our diverse membership, speaking with a single voice on the strategic issues facing the sector and arguing for the value and needs of libraries with government, regulators, service providers and many others. We only exist with the energy and valuable time from our members and we need you to help us continue to drive forward.

We provide support and leadership for the sector, bringing members together with external and international thinkers to support active consideration of service and wider sector developments. We share intelligence through events, case studies and briefing papers driven by our Board and strategy groups.

Our strategy groups and community of interest groups are available to staff at member institutions to join and are a great way of helping to shape the future of the sector and widening your networks.

We offer colleagues a range of services and resources to help you progress in your career, engage with the wider library community and understand the library landscape more fully. We help our members stay fully briefed on the latest developments, for example on AI.

 

News

SCONUL Community perspectives on library apprenticeships

28/10/2024

The HE library sector sees very significant benefits arising from apprenticeships and traineeships being included within their library teams. The findings were identified by a recent survey the full results of which are available here

Parliamentary reception for libraries

22/10/2024

SCONUL co-hosted with CILIP a Parliamentary reception at the House of Commons on Monday 21 October.  In our conversations with MPs and peers, SCONUL colleagues talked about the myriad ways in which our member libraries support the needs of students and enable research, and highlighted the current financial challenges facing the sector and our objectives around reducing the cost of content. 

Joint call for suppliers to restrain costs

17/10/2024

SCONUL has supported Jisc, British Universities Finance Directors Group (BUFDG), RLUK and other peer organisations in a public statement on the financial challenges facing the sector and a call to suppliers to restrain costs.  

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Events

SCONUL Spring Conference: The library and digital transforma...

3/3/2025

The British Library, Knowledge Centre, 96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB

SCONUL’s Spring Conference will discuss the library's central role in institutions’ digital transformation.

SCONUL Technology-enhanced library spaces webinar

12/11/2024

Online

We are pleased to announce the next webinar exploring technology-enhanced library spaces on 11 December 2024 from 10am – 11.30am. We will hear from three case studies exploring different stages in the development and delivery of such spaces

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