Research Libraries UK (RLUK)

« SCONUL and RLUK welcomed today’s announcement of an agreement with Springer Nature1 as the best outcome that could reasonably have been achieved but are calling on academic colleagues to work with the library community to deliver the cultural shift needed to make academic publishing sustainable and affordable. (…) »

« #RLUK21 will seek to understand how the transformation of the library, and its transformational power, can shift our thinking, values, services and offer. (…) »

« Reshaping scholarship: transformation, innovation, and cultural change
The RLUK Conference brings together library and other professionals from across the UK, Ireland and beyond to discuss the leading issues affecting research libraries.
Reshaping Scholarship reflects RLUK’s commitment to achieve transformations in research, innovation in collections, and cultural change in…

« The purpose of this report is to present and discuss the results of the ‘Research Libraries and Digital Humanities Tools’ project undertaken by RLUK. The project aimed to explore the role that libraries currently have or can potentially have in the creation, archiving, curation, and preservation of tools for Digital…

« When is a librarian not a librarian? Rather than a bad joke, this was one of the underlying interesting discussions arising from the 2017 RLUK conference held earlier in March. The conference Twitter hashtag was #rluk17 and the videos are now available.

The answer, it appears is when…

« Research libraries are exploring opportunities to cooperatively address areas of mutual need, including collection management and the long-term stewardship of the legacy print investment. Analysis of collective collections is a valuable source of insight and intelligence to support planning in an environment where libraries seek to create value…

 » The UK consortium of scholarly libraries, Research Libraries UK (RLUK), has recently joined The European Library, a membership organisation that provides services to researchers, with access to more than 200 million records and digital items from all of Europe’s national libraries and a growing number of…