Editorial 203
Introducing our Editorial Board – Mary Joan Crowley and Arend Küster 205
People in the News – Maja Maricevic 206
Profile – Regina Romano Reynolds 208
34th UKSG Annual Conference
Collections 2021: the future of the library collection is not a collection Rick Anderson 211
Open library environments Ken Chad 216
The Irish Research eLibrary (IReL): its survival through economic crisis Monica Crump 220
Driving usage – what are publishers and librarians doing to evaluate and promote usage? Sarah Pearson and Christian Box 225
Reprocurement of a national ‘core content’ collection for the NHS Celestine Johnston 234
General articles
The China bull in the publishing shop Benjamin Shaw 238
Mashups and open data in libraries Owen Stephens 245
Improving access to scholarly research in Africa: open access initiatives Matthew McKay 251
ProQuest's Early European Books Matt Kibble 255
Digitization at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, including an interview with Bruno Delorme Bruno Delorme 261
Keeping libraries relevant in the Semantic Web with resource description and access (RDA) Barbara B Tillett 266
On the advantages of negotiation Liam Earney 273
Key Issue
Collective Action for the Open Researcher & Contributor ID (ORCID) Martin Fenner, Consol Garcia Gómez and Gudmundur A Thorisson 277
Spotlight on people
A day in the life of an assistant librarian – Maria Tourna 280
A day in the life of a prison librarian – Rachel Westworth 282
People 285
Notes for Contributors 289
Subscription Information for 2012 290