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May, 2022

Leading change on race equality

13/05/22

As part of our ongoing commitment to increasing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the sector, we have partnered with AdvanceHE to bring members subsidised development workshops on ‘Leading Change on Race Equality’. The two[...]

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'Engaging Libraries' public and HE libraries' collaboration concludes: report released

04/05/22

A report on the Carnegie UK, Wellcome and Wolfson Foundation ‘Engaging Libraries Phase 2’ programme has now been released. The programme, which ran from November 2019 – November 2021, supported public libraries collaboration with higher[...]

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April, 2022

Thriving in your career - 10 June 2022 - travel and accommodation bursaries

28/04/22

A free face-to-face event for BAME colleagues and students.

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Collaborating to support Ukrainian institutions, academics, staff and students

14/04/22

SCONUL is working with partners across the library community to support Ukrainian academics, researchers, students and staff both in Ukraine and displaced. RLUK, Jisc, The British Library, CILIP, SCONUL, the Archives and Records Association[...]

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February, 2022

Statement of solidarity with library professionals in Ukraine

28/02/22

We the undersigned, representing the UK community of librarians, archivists and information professionals, wish to extend our solidarity and support for our professional colleagues in Ukraine during the current military action by Russia. We[...]

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Invitation to Tender: IT support for SCONUL

02/02/22

SCONUL is seeking an IT support provider to take care of and provide direct support for our internal IT systems.

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January, 2022

University of Cambridge joins SCONUL Access

28/01/22

We are delighted to welcome the University of Cambridge to the SCONUL Access Scheme. SCONUL Access undergraduates will be able to access an incredible wealth of resources that range from a 4,200-year-old Sumerian clay tablet[...]

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SCONUL and partner organisations raise concerns about Pearson price increase

13/01/22

SCONUL, RLUK, Jisc and our partner organisations have written to publishers Pearson, asking them to take urgent and immediate action to reconsider and reverse their recently - announced price increases to e-textbook titles. [...]

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Health sector shares concerns over ebooks provision

06/01/22

Members of our Health & Social Care Knowledge have endorsed the calls to action in the SCONUL Statement on Access to e-books and e-textbooks issued by SCONUL, CILIP and other key groups, especially the calls[...]

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December, 2021

New technology survey for SCONUL members

02/12/21

SCONUL is looking for a consultant to help us develop a regular survey on library technology and markets. We have published the brief for this work here and are seeking responses by 10 January 2022.[...]

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