Credo visits the Westminster Reference Library
A few weeks ago, John, Anne and Mike visited Westminster Reference Library in London. Mike writes: “We met with four of the Westminster team: Susanna Barnes, Michael Lightowlers, Nicky Smith and Owen Grey, all of whom were very generous with their time and ideas. The conversation covered the different challenges that face the libraries and the online resources providers in their shared aim to promote and increase usage of online resources.
We started by looking at the promotional materials that Westminster finds most valuable to use inside the library which included labels for book jackets that are available online and markers for bookshelves that highlight titles that are also online. We learned about the new targets for increased usage; these targets are not yet nationwide, but it’s thought that they will come, making it all the more important for online providers to develop innovative and dynamic methods to support libraries. And so we shared a sneak preview of Credo’s new plans (more soon!) for driving usage into the libraries from outside.
Westminster has created a great promotional video to highlight their collections and services. Check it out!
The Wesminter librarians had lots of good content suggestions: more Bi-linguals other than ‘the usual’, e.g. Russian, Japanese, Punjabi, Slovak, etc. For the Law category, the Nutshell series goes on the wish-list, and for Entertainment and Sport – the Guinness Who’s Who of Sport and SkySports Football Year Book.
Remember, the Credo collection is built up by requests from you, the librarians. What would you like to see included in Credo Reference? Let us know! You can see what’s in the current pipeline here: http://corp.credoreference.com/forthcoming.
