The heads of the IARU libraries meet regularly to discuss the major issues facing university libraries today such as existing and next generation library and discovery systems, new services for researchers, altmetrics and user studies, e-books and MOOCs.
The IARU Librarians' Contact Group has put together information for IARU communities in cooperation with all IARU libraries. The webpage contains information about services available from us during this time of challenge. It is available here.
It is intended to let our communities know what services and access libraries are offering at this time. It also promotes a wealth of research resources that are being made freely available including research outputs from our universities and resources we have digitised.
The IARU Librarians' Contact Group has developed a report - aligned with the IARU Sustainability initiative - that showcases IARU libraries' activities to make a significant contribution to the overall reduction of the campus carbon footprint, and where possible, reduce both recurrent and capital costs in libraries.
The paper aims to:
IARU University Librarians' Meetings:
