James Powell, Sandra Celada and Charley Clayton: Managing Roehampton's library

We patched in a fifth microphone in Sound Studio One so Charles and Will could sit down with Sandra Celada, Charley Clayton and James Powell from the University's Library and Digital Services Team. We discuss the many services their team offer students, the lifecycle and management of resources, the persistence of the physical, heavy-metal-on-dead-tree-pulp book in spite of the ascendency of everything digital, and the inevitable question of AI.  Links: The Library’s Web Home Contacting the team The Library’s excellent FAQ, LibAnswers The new Jessica Kingsley Autism and Neurodiversity Collection (Institution access only!)  Chapters 00:08 Introduction 00:12 Overview of the teams and their roles 03:25 Resources lifecycle: acquisitions, weeding 04:13 How is the paper book faring? 05:41 “The architectural and social arrangement” 06:25 Use of the Library space for other things... 09:27 Recent Library initiatives and wins 10:20 The Library’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion initiatives 11:20 The team’s take on AI 15:57 What are your reading at the moment?          The Roey Grad Podcast is a presentation of the University of Roehampton’s Graduate School.  Our theme music is by DiamondTunes  Our hosts are two PhD students at Roehampton, Charles Miller and Will Berard, who also edits and mixes the podcast. It was produced by Aaliyah Hassan. Comments, questions, want to appear on the show? Get in touch at [email protected]