The shifting landscape of online resources and making decisions post-pandemic: An interview with University Librarian Ken Dick
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We need to reassure them that it’s not about removing their roles, but about adapting and giving them scope to do more, which means more interesting things rather than just procedural practical tasks. The other surprise was how difficult I found it mentally to go from what we had always tried to do with the library, which was put more in (more seats, more services and so on), to go to the opposite of that, to provide a space set up for social distancing. The change in culture to teaching from a textbook isn’t quite there, although with blended learning progressing as it is, we may move closer down that line, but at the moment, we are looking at evidence-based acquisition to provision what we can. Realistically, textbooks will continue to be key so I imagine there will be a pressure to develop the national model negotiated through Jisc given the work that has taken place so far. For the academics, I think the pandemic has given them a much greater awareness of the challenges of providing ebook access as a result of the costs and the complexity of licenses and the supply chains.
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