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Thanks to everyone who replied to my message. It seems as though most colleges are having similar dilemmas. Librarians have been making quick decisions about items and ordering books without seeing them first. Here at Hackney we will have a deadline for spending a fairly large sum of money and I am anxious not to go ahead and order books willy-nilly just so that the money is spent in time. The most useful message I received is not to panic! Mark Lawrence from Waltham College went to a workshop a few months back and was told that much of the stuff that has been published recently will still be OK to use for a few years yet. He was advised not to get rid of stuff published in the last 5 years as it could still be of use. As I've noticed myself web sites like EDEXCEL and some key skills sites are providing resource lists, a lot of which is not newly published. This could also explain why the booklists attached to specs are showing books that were published a few years ago, (although whether that's just because newer more relevant editions weren't yet published when the specs came out,I don't know. I certainly noticed a couple of items on an A-level computing spec which were old editions, and the new edition was published a few months back!) I think there has been a general delay amongst all parties, with preparation for C2000. Some are worse affected than others - one college's department has even refused to run a course next year because the syllabus is so late in arriving! Perhaps we should all be getting out of panic mode and simply ordering stuff using our professional judgement as to their LIKELY relevance to the new specs, even if they were published a year or 2 ago. As I mentioned earlier, it seems that they will still be of use, even if the items were not specifically designed for C2000. Hope this helps. ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%