| Collaboration and Partnership 6 September 2006 |
Collaboration and Partnership Working Group - Meeting MinutesMinutes of the Meeting held at Senate House Library, University of LondonPresent: Mary Davies (Chair), Fiona O’Brien, Ann Sainsbury, Christine Wise (Secretary) In attendance: Angela Conyers 1. Apologies for Absence Dilys Hall, Brian Murphy 2. Minutes of the meeting held 21 June 2006 These were accepted as a true record. 3. Matters arising The following matters arising were noted: Under item 5, MD reported the Action Plan 2006-2007 had been received and endorsed by the M25 Steering Group at its meeting on 6 July 2006.
Under item 7, BM would circulate details of matters of interest from the recent meeting of the University of London University Libraries Committee. 4. London Higher Projects 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 for the academic year 2004-2005, which had recently been made available. As some institutions in membership of London Higher were not members of the M25 Consortium, she had begun to extrapolate relevant information from websites and other published data. The M25 Consortium Top Ten Facts (http://www.m25lib.ac.uk//content/view/42/48/) had already provided useful data. To obtain all relevant detail, she would also contact specific institutions.
Working Group members considered the statistics presented to date, especially on collections, visitors and services, and illustrating and analysing their impact on and value for higher education in London. Further information would be gathered on special collections, especially library and archival collections which had achieved designated status under the MLA scheme; and on a breakdown of numbers of overseas visitors to libraries. Other relevant information might be available from an analysis of UK Libraries Plus statistics. AC would contact AS, CW and other Working Group members further to discuss detailed statistics. MD reported that the fact sheet was being produced in liaison with the M25 Advocacy Group. In order to meet London Higher’s deadlines, it was agreed that work on this project would be completed in November 2006. Research Excellence Project
Work on developing content for this project continued. 5. MLA London Olympics Round Table meeting, 31 August 2006 CW reported that she had attended this meeting, the third in a series. The purpose of the meeting was for representatives from the museums, libraries and archives sector to receive a briefing on recent developments on the sector’s cultural offering for the Olympics in 2012. The meeting had been chaired by Graham Fisher, Chief Executive, MLA London, and there had been presentations by Fran Hegyi, Cultural Programmes Advisor at the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG) and Andrew Holden, recently-appointed Head of Advocacy and Campaigns at MLA London. LOCOG has responsibility for the official cultural programme, for example, the opening and closing ceremonies. The Greater London Assembly (GLA) is responsible for the Cultural Olympiad, which will comprise complementary cultural events leading up to and during the Olympics. The Cultural Olympiad has three themes:
• Inspire and engage the youth of the world Over the next six months, MLA London will lead development of the sector’s offer, in consultation with regional partners. The MLA partnership, which comprises MLA nationally and the nine regional agencies, is also leading a national conversation to ensure that museums, libraries and archives across England benefit from the Games.
With the publication of the draft prospectus for the sector’s offering, the M25 Consortium had the opportunity to consider how to engage with the Cultural Olympiad. This would be considered further in due course by the M25 Consortium Steering Group, and there would be continuing liaison with London Higher. 6. Action Plan – reports from Working Group members
M25 Consortium: membership update Having received an expression of interest from the American InterContinental University, BM had determined that the institution did not meet the eligibility criteria for membership Having surveyed the membership of the former CADISE Consortium, BM had determined that a number of the institutions were eligible to join and recommended that approaches were made to Ravensbourne College of Design & Communication, Rose Bruford College and Trinity College of Music.
Working Group members endorsed BM’s recommendations. In addition, it was noted that the University of Bedfordshire met the membership eligibility criteria. It was agreed that MD would relay these recommendations for membership to the M25 Consortium Steering Group. 7. Any other business MD reported that Adam Edwards had recently resigned from the Working Group and that she had made an approach to a potential new member to take on his responsibilities. Working Group members recorded their thanks to Adam for his service.
MD would approach John Dolan, Head of Library Policy at MLA, to speak at a future Working Group meeting. 8. Date of next meeting [to be confirmed by email]
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