| Collaboration & Partnership 15 September 2004 |
Meeting Minutes
Minutes of the Meeting held on Wednesday 15 September 2004 at Senate House LibraryPresent: Mary Davies (Chair), Penny Dade, Adam Edwards, Brian Murphy, Fiona O'Brien, Rachel Redrup, David Ward, Christine Wise (Secretary) By invitation: Graham Fisher, ALM London 1. Apologies for AbsenceApologies for absence were received from Christine Muller and Jan Wilkinson. 2. Minutes of the meeting held 19 July 2004These were accepted as a true record, subject to the following amendment: Page 3, under heading LLDA, the third paragraph was amended to read: "FOB reported that a recent bid to the Laser Foundation for funding to re-version the WiLL website for Personal Digital Assistants had been unsuccessful, and that a further speculative bid to the Foundation was being prepared". 3. Matters arisingUnder item 4, Building Learning Partnerships event, MD and PD reported that, following the successful seminar which had been held at the British Library on 9 July 2004, a date was being sought for a further, follow-up event. 4. Representation - ALCL, M25 Advocacy Working GroupMD reported that expressions of interest had been invited to represent the M25 Consortium at meetings of the Association of London Chief Librarians (ALCL) meetings. As a result of this invitation, a number of expressions of interest had been received. These were considered by the Working Group, and it was decided to recommend to the M25 Steering Group that Ann Sainsbury, of the University of Westminster, should undertake this role and become a member of the M25 Collaboration & Partnership Working Group. Action MD MD reported that she had been in touch with Maire Lanigan, Chair of the M25 Advocacy Working Group, regarding their representation on the M25 Collaboration & Partnership Working following the departure of Rachel Redrup on maternity leave. In order to continue to promote good communication and interchange of ideas, a representative would shortly be appointed from the M25 Advocacy Working Group to attend meetings of the M25 Collaboration & Partnership Working Group. 5. Action Plan - reports from membersALM London[Secretary's note: a full report on current ALM London strategic and operational matters is provided under item 6 below]. The British LibraryDW and Robert Hall, Chair of the M25 Consortium, had recently met with Jan Wilkinson, Head of Higher Education at the British Library. This meeting had provided a welcome opportunity to brief her on the M25 Development Plan 2002-2003 - 2005-2006, and to discuss issues of mutual interest. Working Group members looked forward to collaboration in due course in line with her brief for the HE sector (http://www.bl.uk/about/cooperation/workhe.html). Committee of Departmental LibrariansMD reported that a meeting had recently been held with Peter Griffiths and the M25 Systems Team to discuss the possibility of creating a CLD catalogue search system. Details of CDL contacts in specific areas, such as disaster management, were awaited. LLDAFOB reported that Jemima Johnstone, recently appointed as Acting Director of the LLDA, hoped to attend a future Working Group meeting. She reported that Dermot Kennedy, currently working part-time as Library Development Officer at ALM London, would shortly take up a part-time role at LLDA, with specific responsibility for the Library Strategy for London. Work on the London Libraries' Manifesto would be deferred pending the outcomes of work on the Library Strategy for London. FOB reported that there had been favourable media coverage of the summer reading promotional campaign, London Librarians Recommend, and that the next campaign would be Reel Fiction, to tie in with the London Film Festival in November 2004. The final report of the Inspire England project had been published on the Inspire website (http://www.inspire.gov.uk/ins_england_papers.htm). A Project Officer would be appointed on a two year contract from October 2004 to develop this work, including steps towards the integration of the regionally-focussed LiLL into this national programme. Two bids were in preparation further to extend the work of Inspire. FOB reported that on 9 September 2004, the LLDA had hosted a breakfast seminar on learning communities at which Ivan Lewis MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Skills and Vocational Education) had been present. FOB reported on a project entitled London Connects, led by the Society of IT Managers in London in Local Government. This project is designed to create a London-wide portal for local authority services, based on smart-card technology, with a launch date of March 2005. The pilot site, featuring integrated access to services in South West London, is currently under development. Finally, the LLDA is working closely with the Greater London Assembly to promote London as a study destination for student groups from overseas. London Health Libraries & M25 Consortium Joint Working GroupFOB reported that a consortium of health libraries had recently joined the LLDA. London HigherMD reported that she and CW would be meeting with Michael Reynier of London Higher (http://www.studylondon.ac.uk/about/) on 9 November 2004. Regional library consortiaAE reported that he would be attending a conference on 21 September 2004 in Cardiff, entitled Regional collaboration and academic libraries: a state of the art conference, and would report back to the Working Group. Action AE He drew Working Group members' attention to the recent report of the Higher Education Libraries in partnership (HELP) project, which had been published by the Wales Higher Education Libraries Forum (WHELF) in June 2004. Research Libraries NetworkThe recent advertisement for the post of Director of the Research Libraries Network was noted. 6. Update on ALM London - Graham FisherMD welcomed Graham Fisher, Chief Executive of ALM London, to the Working Group meeting, and invited him to give a presentation on current and future strategy and operations. His report highlighted the following areas:
MD thanked Graham Fisher on behalf of Working Group members for his presentation. 7. Any Other BusinessMD reported that an approach concerning membership of the M25 Consortium had been received from the Institution of Electrical Engineers. It was agreed that this approach would be considered by the Working Group and that BM would arrange a visit. Action BM The Working Group would consider other potential memberships at the next meeting, with particular reference to LiLL. Action CW for Agenda BM reported that the document M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries Membership Rights and Responsibilities would shortly be circulated to all M25 Consortium Directors and would be available from the M25 Consortium's web pages (http://www.m25lib.ac.uk/m25sec/about/rightsandresp.htm). CW reported that, with the assistance of John Gilby of the M25 Systems Team, the Working Group's web pages on the M25 Consortium website had recently been substantially revised and updated. 8. Dates of meetings for year 2004-2005The next meeting dates were confirmed as Tuesday 9 November 2004 at 14h30 and on the afternoon of Thursday 16 December 2004. Both meetings would be held at Senate House Library, University of London. Christine Wise |
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