About NAG

Do these issues affect you or your organisation?

Supply chain efficiency
Acquisitions workflows
Electronic trading/e-commerce
E-books
Selection/supply specification
Collection management/promotion
Best value/tendering
Library management systems/RFID
Bibliographic data

NAG brings together everyone concerned with the selection, supply and management of library collections - print, audio-visual and digital; Librarians in public, academic, national, government, and special libraries;suppliers, including library suppliers, booksellers, systems suppliers, RFID suppliers, publishers, subscription agents and bibliographic suppliers.

Please select a link from below to learn more or click here to contact the NAG Office.

MEMBERSHIP of NAG - How it works

Members, corporate, individual, and student pay *one membership fee per year
It is renewable on the anniversary of joining
Members receive two issues of Taking Stock each year
Access to website pages, and the Directory
Reduced event fees, seminars, training workshops, Conference etc.
Opportunities to network and get advice via website Forum and event attendance

Please note NAG is a not-for-profit organisation which acts solely for the benefit of members and prompt payment of dues aids efficient operation, ongoing existence and continued development.

*Corporate £120, (Contact via business address, multiple website access, event discount for any named employees, etc.)

*Individual £55, (Contact via home address, one website access, event discount for named member etc.)

*Student £25 (Contact via home address, must be enrolled in validated course of study, event discount for named member etc.)

NAG EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2010/11

OFFICERS

Chair: Paul Dalton (Vice-Chair Alyson Hogarth)

Secretary: Sarah Armitage

Treasurer: Regina Ferguson

Committee Members and their Portfolios

Web and Marketing - Paul Dibble

Conference Team - Briony Heyhoe-Pullar and Charlotte Lane

Academic Library Events Team - Karen Carden, Regina Ferguson, Stuart Halliday, Heather Sherman

Public Library Events Team - Alyson Hogarth, Elizabeth Neville, Jennifer Cox, Michele Petty

Co-opted

Stuart Halliday - Editor, Taking Stock

Executive Meeting Minutes

You are very welcome to contact any member of the Committee via the NAG Office. Truly representative of NAG's diverse membership they work in and have experience of public and academic libraries; public and academic library supply; publishing; web design; RFID provision; systems supply; and bibliographical record provision.

And if you feel you have a contribution to make, and would like to join the Committee, nominations are now open for the 2011 elections.

The NAG Constitution provides for a Committee of a maximum of twelve members. Of these at least one, and not more than four, shall be from each of the following employment categories: academic libraries, public libraries, other libraries or information units, publishing, and library supply (materials, data or systems). Committee members are elected for a three year term. There are currently up to 4 places available on the Committee to serve, in the first instance, for three years from 1st November 2011. Those elected can be from all employment categories as listed above. Given the affiliations of the current Committee, newly elected members may not on this occasion exceed a maximum within each category of: two public librarians, two publishers, one academic librarian, three from library supply or four from other libraries or information units. Valid nominations require a proposer (who may be the nominee) a seconder and the counter-signature of the nominee. All parties must be in current membership of NAG, either personal or corporate. Nominations must be made in the format given in the nomination papers, or in an electronic copy available from nag1@btconnect.com. All nominations must be received by post, fax or email, addressed to the Secretary at the address shown above, not later than Friday 22nd July 2011.

NAG Nomination papers 2011