E-Book Markets: Letter to the Chair of the Education Committee
We wrote to the Chair of the Education Committee, Robin Walker MP, on 23 November, 2022, to express our concern about the state of the e-Book market in the UK: Robin Walker, MP Dear Mr Walker, Congratulations on your appointment as Chair of the Education Committee. I am writing on the issue of poorly functioning…
LACA priority areas
Matt Greenhall, Deputy Executive Director of Research Libraries UK (RLUK) and member of LACA, and Fred Saunderson, Rights and Information Manager at National Library of Scotland and Chair of LACA, introduce LACA’s current priorities and new working group structure Providing a voice to the community LACA represents a broad cross-section of the library, information, and…
Copyright, closure of library and archive premises, and access to collections
Library and archive premises across the UK have been closed for months, significantly restricting user access to physical collection materials and onsite services. Even as the country comes out of the Covid-19 lockdown, access limitations are likely to remain for some time. For example, it is likely that library and archive spaces will have capacity…