Governance Working Groups Strategic Partnerships Working Group Strategic Partnerships Meeting Minutes 21 May 2009
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Collaboration and Partnership Working Group CONFIRMED minutes of the Meeting held Thursday 21 May 2009, University of Greenwich Present: Tim Cullen, Bill Downey, Dilys Hall, Ann Murphy (Chair), Ann Sainsbury, Christine Wise (Secretary) 1. Welcomes AM welcomed colleagues to the meeting. 2. Minutes of the meeting held 15 January 2009 and matters arising Under item 2, COFE and links with HE, BD would contact M25 Consortium members and send information about local arrangements between members and neighbouring FE colleges, to Tom Roper. ACTION BD Under item 4, TC had reviewed the current content of the Working Group’s web pages and had found these up-to-date. He would keep the content under review. 3. Report back from M25 Consortium Steering Group Meeting AM reported back on two recent meetings of the M25 Consortium Steering Group and also the Planning Day. She noted in particular discussions regarding the future remit and name of this Working Group. She reported from recent minutes of the Steering Group’s minutes. The Steering Group had agreed that, while the Working Group is central to the mission of the Consortium, it was difficult to achieve tangible results for members. Suggestions had been made to forge links with other regional library consortia, eg, NOWAL and WHELF, as well as to focus on internal collaboration, particularly among the non-HEFCE funded members of the M25. The latter could involve paying close attention to their particular collections and investigating the needs that they would like to have taken forward on their behalf. It was also suggested that the Working Group continue to keep the linkages that have been formed between the M25 and the NHS libraries. The Steering Group had noted the need for members on the Working Group from non-HE libraries and at director level, who could appreciate the strategic issues involved and provide the necessary linkages and advice. The Chair of the M25 Consortium, Nick Bevan, would liaise with SCONUL regarding the work of the M25 Consortium generally and about the interests of non-HEFCE funded members in particular, following further investigation of their needs by the Working Group. These discussions had prompted the Steering Group to consider that the Working Group might need to change its name, with the proposal of Strategic Partnerships Working Group. The Working Group discussed and endorsed these proposals. The change of name and remit would be proposed at the M25 Consortium AGM on 18 June 2009, and publicised thereafter. In the interim, AM would, through the Secretary of the M25 Consortium, advertise for two new members to join the Working Group, welcoming in particular colleagues from non-HEFCE funded institutions. ACTION AM Current issues of particular interest to non-HEFCE funded institutions would form a major discussion item on the agenda for the next meeting. ACTION CW TC would review and report upon the document originally prepared by Adam Edwards listing UK library consortia. ACTION TC AM reported on other issues arising from recent Steering Group meetings, including a potential change of name for the Resource Discovery Working Group, the WAM25 project, and an M25 networking event in September 2009. 4. Inspire London: actions towards launch TC and AM reported on a meeting held on 17 April 2009, attended by TC, Andrew Green and Philip Payne, National Co-Directors of INSPIRE. A management group for Inspire London would be set up, and AM has been invited to join this. A further meeting will be held to review arrangements, including publicity and renewed contact with M25 member libraries. It was suggested that in due course briefing sessions for front-line staff in M25 members libraries were arranged jointly with CPD25. 5. London health libraries: M25 Consortium engagement and further developments DH reported that the National Library for Health, the library for electronic resources in health, had recently been subsumed into the NHS-Evidence, and linkages within the sector were currently being established in the new NHS-Evidence structure. She had suggested that contact was made by the health libraries group with the M25 Systems Group, to explore the potential for developing the sector library management system in the south-east. She would also mention training offered by the CPD25, and specialist training on areas such as the Cochrane Library, which could be offered in turn to M25 library staff. AM would pass on to DH details of Richard Osborne’s proposal for another joint HE/health libraries event. ACTION AM 6. M25 Consortium Strategic Plan: review and report back on actions Changes to the remit of the Working Group were noted in light of the report-back from recent Steering Group meetings reported above. 7. Any other business AM thanked AS, who was resigning from the Working Group, for her contributions and service. 8. Date of next meeting 16 July 2009 am. DH would investigate the possibility of booking a room at the Bloomsbury Consortium offices. ACTION DH CW Minutes 21 May 2009 May 2009 |
