Atla Annual 2025

As a subject specialist librarian working at large research university, I often find when I’m attending an ABTAPL (Association of Theological and Philosophical Librarians in the UK & Ireland) event that I am the only one in the room with this kind of role. I wanted to find out why. Are other university librarians not present in ABTAPL because their job roles make it no longer relevant for them? Are university librarians not present in ABTAPL because they are not aware of ABTAPL as an organisation? Or are other factors to blame? And what can the recent Atla Global Survey 2024 tell us about UK university librarians? To explore this, my investigation has included a literature review, data analysis and a small scale survey of UK University librarians.