Transcript UK Trip
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 life
The rise of the paraprofessional
Student fees - The reader is a customer
UK has the most monitored higher
education system in Europe
We dance to external drivers
Ayris
Funding is now project-driven
Are we bidded out?
New technologies are changing the face
of libraries
H.E. libraries are more customer-friendly
The 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, teacherintensive learning to learner-centre modes
of delivery
Students therefore need to be selfdirected 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 multiversity
Information is the key to the modern
world (Blair)
ICT centres in all libraries - 4000 public
libraries linked by 2002
Over 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 organised
Content 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 funding
British 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 Information
Joint 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 text
Opening up market for HEI owned texts
Reaching new markets - eg. FE institution
Timescales:
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 purchase
Quality Assurance process-reengineering
Mergers and strategic partnerships
Leverage through technical expertise
Better business planning and cost benefit
Change is needed quicker than the culture
of universities allows