Joint Funding Councils' Libraries Review Group (the ‘Follett’) Report — the contribution of the Information Technology Sub‐committee

Abstract

The Funding Councils of England, Scotland and Wales, and the Department of Education for Northern Ireland set up a Review of library provision in higher education in the Autumn of 1992, chaired by Sir Brian Follett, Vice Chancellor of Warwick University. The Review reported late in 1993 and has, perhaps for the first time since the Parry Report of 1967, placed library matters high on the higher education agenda. The Review was set up against a background of perceived problems of libraries in coping with the huge expansion of the undergraduate population, such concerns being pictorially conveyed in the press through crowded libraries, students studying on the floor, and so on: the political agenda for Follett was mass teaching and its required facilities.