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The last 2008 issue of LIBER Quarterly - the journal of the Association of European Research Libraries - has been published in open access at http://liber.library.uu.nl. It features this year’s General Annual Conference which dealt with strategic issues such as Quality versus Quantity and Changes in Scholarly Communication. Although much of the content deals with the digital world, the impressive new Additional Storage Building of the British Library at p. 388 is not to be missed.

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