Since we last posted about Plan M we’ve been in detailed discussion with OCLC about the terms of a transitional national metadata agreement. The contract is being negotiated by the Jisc and OCLC legal teams, and the Library Hub staff are working on the technical aspects of providing eligible libraries with full OCLC provenance records […]
In this guest post, Stuart Hunt explains the migration of the M25 Consortium libraries from Search25 to Library Hub and the benefits this has brought to members. Discovering collections and items in the collections of M25 member libraries has always been an important part of M25 membership. For many years the Search25 service provided this […]
We’re pleased to announce that the holdings of the Royal Astronomical Society Library, Royal College of Art Library and Manchester Metropolitan University Library have been added to the Library Hub Discover service. Royal Astronomical Society The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) was founded in 1820, and encourages and promotes the study of astronomy, solar-system science, geophysics […]
We have a very special post this month as it forms part of History Day 2021. This exciting event showcases history collections from the UK and beyond, bringing together archives, libraries, publishers, and other organisations to share together their incredible history collections. A free, annual one day event, History Day is created collaboratively between the […]
This month our blog post takes us to Scotland and focuses on just some of the amazing contributing libraries we have. We highlight a small selection of the incredible libraries of Scotland from the National Library, University libraries, NHS and special libraries and the incredible National Museum of Scotland. Did you know that you can […]