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Brief Review of the literature and list of References
The Follett Report (Joint Funding Council’s Libraries Review Group, 1993) recommended that university libraries consider lengthening opening hours in an effort to reduce the pressure on space caused by rising numbers of students. This may seem surprising when considering Lancaster’s (1982) forecast that we would see a ‘disembodiment’ of the library in the last two decades of the twentieth century due to developments in information and communication technologies (ICTs). Whilst technological advances have allowed many library resources to be accessed remotely, user surveys indicate that increased access to the physical library is still in high demand. Delaney (2002: 20) writes: “with 24 x 7 access to electronic resources comes an expectation of similar access to print resources.“

Reduced funding means that university libraries need to consider what is most important to students. Longer opening hours appear to be a priority. Whilst most demand has been passive, for example indicated by user surveys, in some cases it has been much more direct. Research, into which students use the library at night, and their reasons for doing so, is required to gain greater understanding of how we can best meet the needs of these students, and Curry (2003) advocates a user-centred and focussed on opinions and needs as the most effective way of investigating this phenomenon.

References (NB not all of the references are used in this review given its brevity – however this list illustrates the wide range of sources consulted):
Arant, W. & Benefiel, C. R. (2002) Hours of operation and service in academic libraries: towards a national standard. Public Services Quarterly, 1(1), 71-85.
Brophy, P. (2001) The library in the twenty-first century: new services for the information age, London: Library Association Publishing
Curry, A. (2003) Opening Hours: The Contest Between Diminishing Resources and a 24/7 World. The Journal of Academic Librarianship [online] 29(6), 375-385. Available from: https://www.Sciencedirect.com [accessed 5 January 2005].
Delaney, M. (2002) Library access 24x7 – the experience so far: is it a myth or is it more of a reality than we think? SCONUL Newsletter [online] 26, 20-22. Available from: https://www.sconul.ac.uk/pubs_stats/newsletter/ [accessed 5 January 2005].
Engel, D. et al (2002) Opening a library 24 hours. Journal of Library Administration, 36(4), 95-108.
Hart, C. (1998) Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Imagination, London: SAGE.
Joint Funding Council’s Libraries Review Group (1993) The Follett Report [online]. Available from: https://www.cpa.ed.ac.uk/reports/follett [accessed 16 December 2004].
Kniffel, L. K. (2003) Carnegie Mellon Student Protest Gets Library Hours Restored. American Libraries, 24, 903-4.
Lancaster, F. W. (1982) Libraries and librarians in the age of electronics, Arlington: Information Resources Press.
Rea, G. (2003) Open 24 hours at the University of Bath Library and Learning Centre. Assignation, 20(4), 47-49.
Read, J. (1997) ‘What do you want?’; a question academic libraries should be asking their users. SCONUL Newsletter, 11, 6-7.
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