• M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries, Annual General Meeting. 

10am on Friday 9 June, 2006

To be held in the Lecture Theatre, Mayfield House at the Falmer Campus of Brighton University. (Mayfield House, Village Way, Falmer, BN1 9PHJ)

The Falmer Campus is approximately 7km from Brighton city centre. The are regular trains to Brighton from London Victoria, leaving every half hour. From Brighton there is a ten minute journey to Falmer, with trains leaving every ten minutes. There is a short footpath from the station to the Falmer campus.

For information on tickets and train times, please visit the National Rail Enquiries website.

For information on how to get to the venue by road and bus, please see the location map.

There will be a tour of the venue from 9.45am to 10.15am. If you would like to join the tour then please contact Madura Rasaratnam, the Administrative Assistant by Friday 2 June.

Please note: The meeting will be held in the afternoon and will be preceded by a morning session (starting at 10.30am) with the following speakers.

Morning Programme

Catherine Wilson
Head of the Education Practice, London and the South East & Partner at Eversheds

Carol Campayne
Diversity & Equality Manager, London South Bank University

Erica Halvorsen
Interim Director, Equality Challenge Unit

Christine Wise
Chair, Disaster Management Group & Head of Special Collections at Senate House

John Wolstenholme
London Health Libraries & M25 Consortium Joint Working Group
Head of Learning Resources, Thames Valley University

Lunch will be provided in Room 101 from 1.30 – 2.30

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Agenda for the Business Meeting

Please note that hard copies of the agenda papers will only be sent out on request, as all will be available as web documents from Friday 2 June.

Please let me know if you have any queries regarding the meeting. I look forward to seeing you all there.

Robert Hall
Chair

• 1. Apologies for absence and welcome to new members
  
  
• 2. Minutes
  Members are asked to approve the minutes from the January Business meeting.
  January Business meeting minutes
  
• 3. New Website
  Members are asked to note the launch of the Consortium’s new websites



• 4. Steering Group Membership
  Members are asked to note the following results of elections to the Steering Group
  Elections to the Steering Group



• 5. Treasurer’s Report
  Members are asked to receive the Audited Accounts for 2004/5 and the Proposed Budget and Subscription levels for 2005/6.
  Annual Accounts - 2004/5
  Proposed Budget and Subscription Levels - 2006/7
  Consolidated Subscriptions - 2006/7 



• 6. Development planning
  Members are asked ro receive a report on progress against the the Action Plan for 2005/6.
  Action Plan 2005/6



• 7. cpd25
  Members are asked the receive a report on the launch of the Chartership Candidates Exchange Scheme in Autumn 2006.
  cpd25 Chartership Candidates Exchange Scheme



• 8. Members issues
  Members are asked to submit requests by Friday 2 June for issues they would that they would like to be to be raised



• 9. Any other business
      9.i Members are asked to note the Consortium’s programme of meetingsfor 2006/7
                  Tuesday 23 January, 2007 (British Library)
                  June 2007 (TBC)

Robert Hall
Chair
May 19, 2006