Diversity, collaboration and renewal: reflections on the 2014 UKSG conference

Summing up his experience of the three packed days of the 2014 UKSG conference in Harrogate, Gareth Johnson said that he had three key take-away words: diversity, collaboration and renewal. This short article, based on the report he wrote after attending the conference as a sponsored student, explains these lasting impressions and also highlights the way UKSG itself has continued to expand, bringing together the disparate stakeholders and engendering a real dynamic and at times electrifying atmosphere of cross-fertilization and possibility.