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