Issue 76

• Editorial: Open Access, organising workshops and different perspectives.

  In Issue 76 we have articles looking at how Open Access could be used by large funding bodies to make academics' lives easier, experience driven ideas for organising library workshops and conferences, and a different perspective on library customer services from New Zealand. Plus our usual event and book reviews, and some sad news from Bath.

• Fun and games with digital content and data

  John Kirriemuir reports on a British Library Labs and University of Nottingham event in the National Videogame Arcade on 3rd February.

• Meeting the Reading List Challenge – Event Report

  Laura Williams reviews the two-day workshop "Meeting the Reading List Challenge" held at Loughborough University Library on 5th & 6th April 2016.

• Book Review of The Network Reshapes the Library

  John Kirriemuir provides a review of Lorcan Dempsey's book "The Network Reshapes the Library" which collects together some of the thoughts he has had on libraries, networked information retrieval, publishing and Irish literature.

• Book Review of The innovative school librarian

  Stella Thebridge reviews the second edition of a collaborative text offering a strategic approach to the leadership of school libraries.

• A quantum jump from information to transformation - mātauranga Māori based library services

  Lidu Gong gives us an over view of how the Mātauranga Māori view of knowledge and culture are applied in the library service of a tertiary level college in New Zealand. This cultural foundation is fundamentally different to that found in most Western cultures, and demonstrates how an academic library can cater to the specific needs of their local population.

• Book Review: Altmetrics: a practical guide for librarians, researchers and academics

  Elizabeth Gadd reviews a book that aims to provide librarians, researchers and academics with practical information on the expanding field of altmetrics, but which she feels may have missed its mark.

• Funding Universal Open Access via Academic Efficiency Gains from Government Funder Sponsored Open Access Journals

  Joshua M. Pearce presents a concept for using Open Access (OA) journals supported by large scale funding bodies to not only make research more widely and freely available, but also potentially cut down on the administrative overheads that many academic researchers face.

• Organising your first conference

  Gary Brewerton has organised a number of library related conferences, mostly notably the Meeting the Reading List Challenge series. In this article he shares some hints and tips for people considering putting on a library conference or workshop, but who are not sure where to start.