I have asked Tim Stedman to take responsibility for the trial of shelf-ready materials outlined in the Library’s 2010 strategic plan. He is setting up a trial with our main monograph supplier, YBP, limiting it to the subjects of Social Work and ESOL. The former department was chosen because they are struggling to spend their book money and we thought that we could trial selecting by using a profile to see if this identifies appropriate material to purchase. Developing the profile for Social Work is a joint effort between Tim, Kerry Gilmour and the department. Tim has worked with Janette on setting up the ESOL profile as this is a general library fund. The ESOL profile has been forwarded to YBP who have done the initial setup. There is still some further work necessary to finalise both selection profiles and get the physical processing specifications set up. Hopefully this work can be done during August so that there is data for three months that can be assessed prior to Christmas. Cynthia.