The Spring 2005 Special Issue of Library and Information Research on the LIRG/SCONUL Impact Initiative is now freely available on the LIRG web pages at http://www.cilip.org.uk/specialinterestgroups/bysubject/research/publications/journal/archive/lir91/ The table of contents is below. Elizabeth Gadd Co-Editor Library and Information Research CONTENTS 1 GUEST EDITORIAL Philip Payne REFEREED PAPERS 3 Measuring the impact of higher education libraries: the LIRG/SCONUL Impact Implementation Initiative Philip Payne and Angela Conyers 8 Facilitating the Impact Implementation Programme Sharon Markless and David Streatfield OVERVIEW PAPER 14 The LIRG/SCONUL Measuring Impact Initiative: Overview of phase 1 impact projects Pauline Blagden REPORTS FROM PARTICIPANTS 16 Birkbeck College Martin Draper 18 University College Chester Lisa Peters, Wendy Fiander 20 Glasgow Caledonian University John Crawford 22 University of Gloucestershire Darren Bolton 24 University of Leeds Helen Howard and Martin Gill 26 Leeds Metropolitan University Katherine Everest, Marie Scopes and John Taylor 28 Northumbria University Anne Middleton 30 Open University Kirsty Baker and Gill Needham 32 Teeside University Sue Myer and Fran Porritt 34 Warwick University Chris Bradford