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Greta, when you say NBS – do you mean IHS and the Construction Information Services database? I know that a few of my colleagues in private arch firms subscribe to this, myself included as we are obviously limited in what we can provide in comparison to a University. Guess at the end of the day though, your students can get trained up pretty quickly on it once in practice…. As academic info professionals, it is all about giving them the skill set regarding searching and sourcing quality information, which will hopefully set them up for life in a professional practice. T Tracey Lunt Information Services Manager (available Monday to Thursday) BDP 1 North Bank Sheffield S3 8JY, United Kingdom T +44 [0]114 270 9094 F +44 [0]114 228 9925 M +44 [0]7920 268 399 E [log in to unmask] www.bdp.com<http://www.bdp.com> [http://gallery.mailchimp.com/f6aab70b31ab115020979f818/images/twitter_bird_light_bgs.jpg]<http://bdp.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=f6aab70b31ab115020979f818&id=7aae7233fb&e=0eb7021ba0> Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail From: Architecture Librarians group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Greta Friggens Sent: 18 November 2014 11:32 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: A quick discussion point Interesting to hear about your 'Interior Designers' Leo. Our Interior Design degree was renamed this year to Interior Architecture. The students were consulted on the name change and this was what they preferred. Just like Leo and Sharon, costs of resources are a prime concern. AJBL have been contacting all of our academics recently, but we have taken Phaidon Atlas, so wouldn't be able to afford AJBL. We already have access to AJ via Construction Information Service. I worry about continuity for the student experience. We have to cancel one thing before we can subscribe to another, so its a fine balance. We can not afford to subscribe to NBS any more. It is only used on part of the MA Course, so was not seen as value for money. However, students need to know about this resource before going into practice, so its quite a problem. I wonder if NBS would consider enabling free access to the resource for certain groups for the period of the unit? Students would most certainly benefit from having access and NBS would benefit when they graduate into practice and purchase access! Its just so specialist. Greta On 18 November 2014 10:15, Leo Clarey <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: Dear Susanne and Tanya, Just a short reply from me. I'd say that for one, in a multi-disciplinary university like UAL (University of the Arts London), it is hard when certain resources like Phaidon Atlas come round, to justify spending on a resource like this which may only appeal to a small number of students on account of its subject specialism. We have to think whether the resources we get will suit a broad range of students. Secondly I'd also say that one issue is whether courses with 'Interiors', 'Interior Design', 'Spatial' in their titles are considered as being equal to courses with 'Architecture' in their titles. I hope this helps. Best wishes, Leo Clarey London College of Communication Library -----Original Message----- From: Architecture Librarians group [mailto:[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>] On Behalf Of Sharon Laverick Sent: 17 November 2014 17:40 To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: A quick discussion point Dear Susanne At the moment in the depths of the Autumn term, it's time! Teaching commitments and university administrative activities make it very difficult to focus on anything developmental, let alone day-to-day work or even emails. Other than that I would say the range and cost of databases. For example we are having ongoing discussions with EMAP regarding our access to AJ Buildings Library which we are now going to have to pay more for. Just one of a number of specialist architectural resources (others BCIS, CIS, Avery Index, Digimap and so on, making the library support to architecture rather expensive compared with other subject areas. That is just off the top of my head - be interested to know what others think... Sharon -----Original Message----- From: Architecture Librarians group [mailto:[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>] On Behalf Of Susanne Jennings Sent: 14 November 2014 10:40 To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: A quick discussion point Dear All, Just a quick email to ask for views on the most pressing issues facing architecture librarians today ... Your feedback would be very much appreciated. Hoping this finds you well on this dark, wet morning (in Cambridge anyhow!). Best wishes, Susanne and Tanya -- Susanne Jennings & Tanya Zhimbiev Faculty Librarians & Disability Liaison Officers University of Cambridge Architecture and History of Art Cambridge CB2 1PX Tel. 332953 (Library)/332967 (Librarian's Office) ________________________________ This email and any attachments are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. 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