Present: Máire Lanigan (St. Mary's & Chair), John Gilby (LSE - Minutes), Marysia Henty (LSE), Julie Howell (London Metropolitan University), Mary Nixon (Goldsmiths).

Apologies: Apologies were received from Liz Hunwick (Middlesex), Paul McLaughlin (SHL), Frances Norton (Wellcome Library), Janet Percival (UCL). Madura Rasaratnam (LSE), Monica Rivers-Latham (Westminster).

ML announced that MRL had resigned from the group as she was leaving Westminster for a new post. The group recorded its thanks for her efforts during her time on the group.

The minutes were agreed as accurate and true record of the meeting.

• Action 3.1 - JG had added the Annual Report PDF to the website.
• Action 3.2 - MR had circulated Annual Report recipients.
• Action 3.3 - MR had disposed of older annual reports, keeping a small number in case of need.
• Action 7.1 - ML had fed back comments from the group to the Steering Group concerning the Strategic Plan.
• Action 8.1 - Action relating to the promotional banner were covered under Item 3 below.

See above.

ML summarised the banner type the group had chosen and that the Steering Group had agreed funding for two stands, one for general Consortium promotion and the other for CPD25. The banner work had been held back pending the website redesign work but this had now progressed so the group agreed to try and have the Consortium banner ready for the January 2006 full Consortium meeting. MH volunteered to assist with this work and the group had a short brainstorm for banner content.

ML reported that the London Higher Flier had been very well received by all who had seen it and the group recorded its thanks to MRL for her efforts on the flier. The flier prompted a short discussion about images on promotional material and the group agreed that use of photos of people should be considered more as M25 libraries are very much about people (students, researchers, users, etc.).

Action 4.1 - JG to ensure that the Collaboration & Partnership Group have a supply of fliers and that surplus fliers are distributed to M25 member libraries rather than sitting around for ages and then being thrown away.

JG demonstrated the finalised logos for the Consortium, CPD25 and InforM25, showed the latest website designs and updated the group on what was happening with the website redesign project. ML had re-circulated the early draft of a documentation standards guideline as it was felt that with the website changing it would be appropriate that content on the site have some standardisation. The document prompted a lot of discussion which will feed into the next draft.

The group agreed that downloadable stationery for members to use (such as headed notepaper) should be provided on the new website with guidelines for its use.

Action 5.1: AWG to produce a revised version of documentation standard guideline.

The AWG considered the revised M25 Strategy and related Action Plan which will be used to guide work in the year ahead.

The next meeting was confirmed on the afternoon of 16 January 2006.

Minutes by JG