Collaboration and Partnership Working Group - Meeting Minutes

Minutes of the Meeting held at Senate House Library, University of London

Present: Mary Davies (Chair), Dilys Hall, Brian Murphy, Fiona O’Brien, Christine Wise (Secretary)

In attendance: Angela Conyers, Richard Osborn

1. Apologies for Absence

Helen Cocker, Ann Sainsbury

2. Minutes of the meeting held 6 December 2006

These were accepted as a true record, subject to the following correction:

Under item 6, Membership of the M25 Consortium, the final sentence was amended to read, “In addition, the M25 Steering Group would be advised not to consider for the moment extending an invitation to the Conservatoire of Dance and Drama.”

3. Matters arising

MD would make an enquiry of the M25 Consortium Secretary regarding the current membership status of the Central School of Speech and Drama, as it was not at present listed on in the M25 Consortium Directory of Representatives.
ACTION MD

4. NHS & Health Libraries Update – Richard Osborn

MD invited Richard Osborn to speak.  He gave an update on the current NHS initiative to move from five to one strategic health authority covering the Greater London area.  Plans were advancing, although many details regarding provision of local services and funding of contracts remained to be clarified.  He noted that the London Health Libraries & M25 Consortium Joint Working Group was a productive and helpful forum, through which initiatives relating to joint procurement of health database, had been progressed.  MD thanked RO for his report.

5. London Higher Projects

MD invited Angela Conyers to speak.  She reported on the meeting with representatives of London Higher held on 17 January 2007, at which a number of issues of mutual interest had been discussed.  These included agreement on the benefits of revising the fact-sheet, Libraries in Higher Education Institutions in London (http://www.londonghigher.ac.uk/docs/Libraries_Keyfacts06.pdf) on an annual basis; assistance with producing a similar fact-sheet on computing provision in higher education libraries; research on bibliometics and benchmarking; and participation in strategic and cultural initiatives relating to the London Olympics 2012.  Working Group members endorsed the approaches taken and agreed that it would be helpful to progress in the first instance the compilation of data relating to computing provision.  MD and AC would bring an initial report to the next meeting.
ACTION MD and AC

6. Action Plan – reports from Working Group members

• ALCL
  There were no new matters to report.
  
  
• The British Library
  There were no new matters to report.
  
  
• Committee of Departmental Librarians
  There were no new matters to report.
  
  
• HE / FE liaison
  There were no new matters to report.
  
  
• Library access programmes
  HC would report in due course on the outcomes of the next SCONUL Access Working Group meeting.
  ACTION HC
  
  
• LLDA
  MD indicated that in the light of the recent M25 Steering Group review of working groups Working Group members would consider future areas of mutual interest.
  
  
• London Olympics 2012
  CW would revise her paper, MLA London 2012 Round Table meeting, 31 August 2006: report on discussion and recommendations for the M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries.  It would be brought to the attention of the M25 Consortium Steering Group.
  ACTION MD, CW
  
  

• Regional NHS libraries
  Full information is provided under item 4 above.

• Regional library consortia
  There were no new matters to report.

• Research Information Network
  There were no new matters to report.

Membership of the M25 Consortium
There were no new matters to report.

7. Any other business

There was no further business.

8. Date of next meeting

Tuesday 27 March 2007, 10h00, Senate House Library, University of London.

Christine Wise
M25 C&P minutes 15 February 2007
February 2007