UK reactions to the 2007 ACRL Environmental Scan

This year’s LIRG Annual seminar and AGM is being held on July 29th at King’s College, London. The theme of the event is ‘an exploration of some of the major assumptions shaping practice in academic library and information services based on the Environmental Scan published by the Association of College and Research Libraries research committee in 2008′. The document sets out the ‘Top ten assumptions for the future of academic libraries and librarians’, which includes Number 6:

”Higher education will be increasingly viewed as a business, and calls for accountability and for quantitative measures of library contributions to the research, teaching, and service missions of the institution will shape library assessment programs and approaches to the allocation of institutional resources”.

For further details, visit the LIRG events page.