IARU librarians have formed a network to share best practices and experiences, and explore ways in which they can further collaborate to support IARU initiatives. Network meetings such as this one will strengthen ties between librarian heads from our institutions, and they can learn more about each others' library services and collections.

30 librarians, researchers and industry representatives have also met in 21 – 22 January 2010 to discuss the issue of Open Access / Open Cast Publishing. The motivation for the meeting arose from the need to discuss alternative ways of publishing (e.g. internet as a medium for content distribution) as well as creative solutions to address the increasingly rising costs for licenses in academic journals which in the long run will limit accessibility of the various academic journals by our university libraries.