Ayris/UCL

Regionalism theme - Thatcherism impact of higher education

Academics slow to change - consumed large amounts of funds and not active or entrepreneurial

New Labour - not much better re individual funding (as compared to national initiatives JISC etc.)

Ayris/UCL

Blair Education Money = nursery schools, secondary schools, broadening access like lifelong learning

Driven by Project Money - competitive bids eg. RSLP (has to be consortial)

Is regionalism a political expedient? Sharing the money more thinly

Ayris

Do we train for the job or for life?6 careers in the working lifeThe rise of the paraprofessionalStudent fees - The reader is a

customerUK has the most monitored higher

education system in EuropeWe dance to external drivers

Ayris

Funding is now project-drivenAre we bidded out?New technologies are changing the

face of librariesH.E. libraries are more customer-

friendlyThe national agendas do not favour

the older research libraries

Future of Universities - Webb

New roles of universities - social and economic.

Focus on teaching and learning and social agenda - a political agenda

Study facilities in the work place - big challenge - opportunities via web. Future emphasis on short-term continuing education

Webb

Shift from classroom-based, teacher-intensive learning to learner-centre modes of delivery

Students therefore need to be self-directed in the future - understand information searching - role of libraries

Teaching and Learning Centres in libraries

Information Commons developments

Webb

Mass higher education means mass produced materials outside of the campus

T/L process does not stretch the most able nor assist the least able

Continued cuts - how do we share resources across institutional boundaries. Not simply 'salami slice' but rather collaborate to maintain quality. Do we need a national curriculum for at least first year undergraduates?

Webb and Libraries

Libraries to become knowledge resource centres - online knowledge centres - data warehouses - manage web and electronic information

Libraries have to repackage information to diverse learner groups who lack core competencies in information access

Sutherland: memorisation v access skills

Chris Batt: (ALIA October)

From university to multiversityInformation is the key to the modern

world (Blair)ICT centres in all libraries - 4000 public

libraries linked by 2002Over 30,000 public access terminals

£100m for technical infrastructure £50m for content £20 million for training

Public Libraries

Thirty four million people use libraries. Peoples Network Online Community Learning Centres National Grid for Learning Learn Direct - University for Industry Capital Modernisation Fund - Community

Learning Centres NOF Community Access to Lifelong

Learning

Lifelong Learning

Concept of episode learning - small bits every day

Batt says lifelong learning is not about accreditation/badging

People to learning and learning to the people

Peoples network a megaclump - MLAC (Resource) a culture clump

Lord Matthew Evans

Need for joined up thinking. Access/Content/Delivery/Train

Role of teacher very important - role of librarian and teaching cultures

Difference in library and museum cultures

Reinforcement of centrality of libraries - centre for all educational plans

Lord Matthew Evans

Archives neglected and less organisedContent creation is the most important -

persuade UK Government to invest in teaching in content provision. A national strategy for digitisation to be developed

Gordon Brown - role of libraries/treasurer - learning centres in deprived areas.

Treasury initiative - compare OZ

Professor Michael Anderson - Edinburgh

Need to use key words such as social inclusion lifelong learning co-ordination co-operation digitisation

British Library Board - appointment Lynne Brindley - new directions

Anderson Visions

National more than regional - distributed national collections driven by user needs

Medium term commitments at least Requires National co-ordinators with

funds and open but mediated and compensated access

Collaboration includes staff and infrastructure as well as collections

British Library

Excluded from Public and UL fundingBritish Library - Funding Councils -

German/Biomedical cooperation British Library Co-operation and

Partnership Fund 2.5 million pounds, 2000-2002 Efficiency dividend cuts 2000-2001 Role of BLDSC - legacy collections

Joined up Government?

Weaknesses A political expedient? Resource sharing = spreading the jam more

thinly? Collaboration = research libraries are net

suppliers?£50 million Follett£45 million E-lib£30 million over 3 years RSLP

British Library

Cataloguing/Computing/Legal Deposit intake all at Boston Spa. 2 sites only

10 million web transactions - 4 million OPAC searches

90% stored on site which readers want AMICUS not to be used for public

searching but rather as inhouse cataloguing tool

British Library

Unit for 'Reader Satisfaction' What are 10 most important

P.I.'s/satisfaction levels Raise issues - most important up to date

and accurate catalogue records and the decline in the collections.

Regular focus groups of readers Major focus of queries on web site -

transparency and frankness

Edinburgh Data & Information Access (EDINA)

Remit to provide online access to data & services both bibliographic information & data for research

and teaching special responsibility for data on Scotland

Part of ‘virtual library’ for UK higher education three JISC designated datacentres (BIDS, EDINA,

MIMAS)

over 130 universities/HEIs now subscribe to EDINA free at point of use to staff & students

EDINA and JISC

3 UK National Datacentres (BIDS, EDINA, MIMAS) + Arts Humanities Data Service (AHDS), Data Archive, etc funded via JISC Committee for Electronic

InformationJoint Information Systems Committee of UK Higher

Education Funding Councils

Part of national system os JISC-funded facilities SuperJANET for networking; CHEST for consortium

purchasing; subject based Resource Discovery Network; etc

What is a national datacentre?

(EDINA’s) Mission as JISC national datcentre to enhance productivity of research, learning &

teaching in UK higher education - through provision of specialist data services

Aims for the (EDINA) National Services to provide staff and students with access to key

information resources, as part of the Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER). See handout

Heron Futures

More emphasis on original electronic textOpening up market for HEI owned textsReaching new markets - eg. FE institutionTimescales:

Exit strategy agreed by end of Summer 2000 Commercial venture by August 2001

Digital coursepack initiative UCL

LSE Building

LSE Building funded by HEF Council with £6million, Heritage Lottery Fund £4 million out of £15 million baseline.

1,600 reader places - laptop drop in centre/Plug ins

1-5 of computer workstations to students = 600 IT workstations in Library

11 million pounds of Greenwich University Library from old Naval Hospital - Library floors deserted - Information Commons packed

Kings Building

£30 million PRO building - investment in a building of $64 million!! (cf Australia)

IT Services - information professionals - not librarians any more in converged service

Issues on converged services - Kings, Birmingham, Edinburgh

1,250 networked spaces eventually - 400 initially to allow sequential replacement process of computers

DNER Rusbridge

A national scale digital library project (close to California Digital Library Initiative)

Authenticate, discover, rights of access, locate, delivery services, payment - all consistent layers

Cross searching across many databases

DNER Rusbridge

Break the data services groups eg. BIDS/ISI/Swets

Structured data interfaces the key to future

Access management system (SPARTA) being developed to replace Athena

Hayes Summary: Costs

Collaborative and consortium purchaseQuality Assurance process-reengineeringMergers and strategic partnershipsLeverage through technical expertiseBetter business planning and cost benefitChange is needed quicker than the

culture of universities allows