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National Acquisitions Group (NAG)

Our final paper of the day! Ending NAG Seminar 2026 with @librarianth.bsky.social from @uoylibrary.bsky.social who says "People are Better than Systems!" #NAGcd16

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National Acquisitions Group (NAG)

Systems can be presented as the solution, the replacement for that dusty old spreadsheet but, sometimes the clunky in-house workaround is a feature not a bug!

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National Acquisitions Group (NAG)

Drastic, high speed budget cuts were required. Turns out the systems weren’t as good at cancelling things as buying things, and coming out of those systems was challenging.

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National Acquisitions Group (NAG)

Immediate challenges: - which titles to keep - post access cancellation rights - impact on reading lists

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National Acquisitions Group (NAG)

Turns out the “dusty” spreadsheet is very agile! They represent the intellectual product of hours and hours of professional work and were used to calculate the impact of removing specific titles

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National Acquisitions Group (NAG)

Staff can give you the why as well as the what. They have detailed and specific granular knowledge and provide institutional memory. Data requires systems, knowledge requires wisdom!

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National Acquisitions Group (NAG)

Post cancellation access required digging back into spreadsheets, agreements and even filing cabinets to prove entitlement to long term access. Institutional staff memory proved to be critical.

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National Acquisitions Group (NAG)

Key question “what happens to our reading lists if we turn off these journals?” Created an excel based solution to pull all the citations in and highlight those with OA alternatives and those which were more problematic.

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National Acquisitions Group (NAG)

“We consider ourselves anti-fragile. Systems fail. People recover. We were able to find solutions that work.”

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National Acquisitions Group (NAG)

We all have local idiosyncrasies! Every set up and collection is different and influenced by a range of factors. So of course we all have bespoke fixes and work arounds which reflect how flexible staff are!

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National Acquisitions Group (NAG)

Prioritise and protect these idiosyncrasies! There is no single shiny box which will work out of the box for everyone.