Back in June last year the Jisc Collection Management Community Advisory Board issued a brief survey, circulated to various mailing lists. The aim of the consultation was to gauge community appetite for adopting a common approach to recording retention information in bibliographic records. We received 39 responses, the majority of which were positive about the […]
The Library Hub Discover service went live at the end of July last year, involving a whirlwind of activity behind the scenes for our team! Now that things have settled down a bit, we are delighted to announce that, to date, we have loaded the library catalogues of 144 of the UK’s national, academic and […]
Interface enhancements We are appreciative of the feedback we’ve had on the Library Hub Discover interface and in response to this we’ve introduced a couple of changes, with a focus on enhancing the record displays. A more concise result list When you do a search your result list will now be more compact and you […]
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the Library Hub team! Library Hub Discover Support will be taking a break from 24th December until 6th January. The Library Hub services – Discover, Compare and Cataloguing – will be available over Christmas and New Year. Any queries sent over this period will be dealt with […]
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What is “Plan M”?
Plan M is a very wide-ranging discussion that has been going on throughout the second half of 2019 involving many different stakeholders across the library community. The ‘M’ stands for ‘metadata’. In a nutshell, the way that metadata for academic and specialist libraries is created, sold, licensed, shared and re-used in the UK needs a […]