I may have mentioned on a previous occasion that we (faculty librarians, plus our boss and our assistants) get together with our opposite numbers over in the academic skills unit sometimes. Just an opportunity to liaise, swap notes, share projects and problems, make sure we're coordinating any similar things we might be working on.

Another such morning today and once again I was struck by the way that if we didn't do this, there'd be a lot of reinvention of the wheel going on. Today we were joined by an online course developer from one of the faculties and she was impressed by how much we were - jointly -already doing and how much she (and presumably her equivalents in other departments) could benefit from swapping notes.

I could see this growing...