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Information Strategy
An expensive luxury….
or a necessary evil?
Derek Law, Librarian and
Director of Information
Resources, University of
Strathclyde
University of Strathclyde Vital Statistics
Five Faculties: Arts and Social Sciences,
Business, Education, Engineering, Science
Two campuses
26,000 degree-seeking students
Over 36,000 Continuing Education/CPD
students
3,500 staff
Turnover:£140M
Total Library and IT Services budget: £10M
The University of Strathclyde
Information Strategy Office established
1995 - driven by Joint Information Systems
Committee (JISC) recommendations
Underlying impetus to break down barriers
to information management in a large
organisation - the academic/admin/IT
divide
And this was where I came in….
Strathclyde’s Strategic Priorities
 The Learning Process - Create a better
learning environment (1)
Students and Courses of study - Expand
Professional Development Programmes(2)
Research - Support Research Excellence(3)
The Estate- Develop the heart of the two
campuses(4)
Staff Development and Finance - Invest in
People’s Development(5) Source: Strategic Plan 1999-2003
The Millennium Student Project
Vision
To create a leading edge learning
environment in which students have a rich
learning experience, acquire the skills to
take advantage of it and have access to
the tools which will manage it. Our aim is
to produce graduates equipped to be at
ease in an entrepreneurial information
society
The Strathclyde Millennium Student
Project
Aiming for a holistic rather than piecemeal
approach
Developing a managed learning
environment encompassing all aspects of
the University’s electronic resources
Best envisaged through the ‘Strathclyde
Eye’
Commercial
In-house
Teaching
Materials
Laptops for all
Devices
Learning
Delivery
Finance
1500
modems
Gigabit
backbone
Insight
Copyright/IPR
Pervasive
Networking
Standards
&
Evaluation
Education
Vision &
Strategy
CVU
Wireless
classrooms
Glasgow
DigitalDigital Library
Library
Quality
Student
intranet
Personal
Portals
Training
&
Incentives
IIP,All
student
certificatio
n
The Wider Context
The focus is the University not the Library
The Learning City – open education
CVU and cEVU– a virtual university
The Millennium Student – a new learning
environment
The Background National Projects
 CAIRNS – cross-catalogue searching
 SCONE – collaborative collection
management
 HAIRST- Harvesting Internet Resources in
Support of Teaching
 BUBL – access to internet resources
 IPR Policy - a survey of practice
 Insight – Value for Money
 SAPIENS – Small Learned Societies
Local Glasgow Projects
GAELS – training materials and sharing
collections in Glasgow
CATRIONA – identifying local resources
CORC - metadata
DIO – managing local resources
GDL – the virtual library
Student Intranet - a gateway into the
University
Progress well on way in design of a
personalised student portal offering direct
access to :
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Personalised class and exam timetables
The students’ own personal details etc
The student’s own Progress Report file
To enable the student to update their details and
undertake administrative procedures such as
registration
Student Intranet
Offering direct access to a ‘Knowledge
Centre’/Digital Library of Learning
materials and electronic resources
A customised student news service
Facility for student’s own space on the
web, including webmail
Derek’s Daily Dictums
Make big plans and aim high
A hot bed of cold feet
Losers confuse destiny with bad
management
Do what’s crazy, not what’s stupid
Never try to teach a pig to sing – it wastes
your time and annoys the pig