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Collaboration and Partnership Working Group - Meeting MinutesMinutes of the Meeting held at Senate House Library, University of LondonPresent: Mary Davies (Chair), Adam Edwards, Dilys Hall, Brian Murphy, Christine Wise (Secretary) In attendance: Angela Conyers 1. Apologies for Absence Fiona O’Brien, Ann Sainsbury 2. Minutes of the meeting held 23 May 2006 These were accepted as a true record, subject to the following amendments: Under Item 5, M25 Consortium: membership update, the first sentence was amended to read, “BM reported that the University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester was being received into membership of the M25 Consortium. BM was looking at the potential for membership of other members of the former CADISE partnership”. 3. Matters arising The following matters arising were noted:
Under item 5, it was agreed that FOB would circulate the LLDA Joint Venture Agreement to Working Group members. Under item 5, MD reported that FOB had been unable to attend the M25 Consortium meeting on Friday 9 June 2006 to brief Directors of M25 Consortium libraries on the migration of LiLL (http://www.londonlibraries.org/servlets/llil) to INSPIRE (http://www.inspire.gov.uk/index.php). FOB had subsequently contacted Directors by email to brief them. Under item 6, MD had contacted Maire Lanigan, Chair of the M25 Advocacy Working Group, and a new Working Group representative was expected shortly.
Under item 6, MD would invite John Dolan, Head of Library Policy at the MLA, to speak to a future Working Group meeting.
MD invited Angela Conyers to speak to this agenda item. AC had been contracted to undertake a consultancy on behalf of the M25 Consortium: to work with Working Group members and representatives of London Higher to produce a fact sheet on higher education libraries in London; and to research and deliver a report on the infrastructure element of the London Higher Research Excellence project. AC briefed Working Group members on progress to date. Fact sheet on higher education libraries in London AC noted that the base data for this fact sheet would be derived from submissions to the annual SCONUL statistical data, and that the summary information for the academic year 2004-2005 would shortly be available. However, some institutions in membership of London Higher were not members of the M25 Consortium, so an additional survey would be prepared to elicit information in the key areas. As well as gathering essential data, this survey in itself would be a welcome profile-raising initiative for the M25 Consortium. The key content of the fact sheet would be impact performance measure, with both a quantitative and qualitative element, primarily relating to services, collections, access (eg, opening hours and to electronic and physical resources) and space. Preliminary thinking indicated a headline approach, supported by evidence-based case studies, using the M25 Consortium Top Ten Facts (http://www.m25lib.ac.uk//content/view/42/48/) as the starting point. Research Excellence Project Working Group members considered the framework of the Research Excellence Project, specifically the infrastructure element to which the M25 Consortium would make its contribution. Scoping and data modelling for the Fact Sheet on higher education libraries in London would prepare the ground for gathering further quantitative and qualitative data. A case study approach would also be considered for this project, eg, the importance and use of London libraries for overseas researchers, especially for consultation of unique collections of rare books, archives and manuscripts.
MD, AC and CW would meet with Dr Michael Reynier on Thursday 29 June 2006 to discuss progress on the Fact Sheet and on the Research Excellence Project. In the light of this meeting, AC would develop content for both and report back to the next meeting of the Working Group. 5. Remit of the M25 Collaboration & Partnership Working Group and prioritisation of work MD invited Working Group members to review the remit, priorities and objectives for the Action Plan 2006-2007, which had been considered at the last meeting. These were confirmed. In addition, Working Group members considered the draft Action Plan 2006-2007 which was tabled at the meeting. Various comments and additions were made, which would be incorporated into the final version.
MD would present the revised remit and priorities and the Action Plan 2006-2007 to the Steering Group for endorsement. 6. Action Plan – reports from Working Group members
M25 Consortium: membership update BM reported that he had been in contact with Newbold College to indicate that the institution did not meet the eligibility criteria for membership of the M25 Consortium. 7. Any other business
BM reported on the recent meeting of the University of London University Libraries Committee and would circulate details of matters of interest. 8. Date of next meeting Subsequently confirmed by e-mail as Wednesday 6th September 2006.
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