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| London Health Libraries & M25 Consortium Joint 19 January 2004 |
Meeting MinutesNotes from the meeting held at Thames Valley UniversityPresent: John wolstenholme-JIW (Chair, TVU), Betsy Anagnostelis-BA (UCL), Ruth Fosker-RF (SELWDC), Margaret Haines-MH (KCL), Brian Murphy-BM (QMUL), Richard Osborn-RO (NWLWDC), Ray Phillips-RP (SWLWDC), Janet Smith-JS (IC), Anne Weist-AW (NELWDC), Jane Williamson-JW (NCLWDC) Apologies: Angels Horrocks-AH (Kingston), Cheryl Twomey-CT (eKAT) 1. Hello and welcomeJIW welcomed all to TVU and the first official meeting of the group. Individual introductions were then given. 2. Terms of reference and membership2.1 Draft Terms of Reference This was discussed and the following changes and additions were agreed upon: Action JIW
A new item to be included stating that; The group will have an advocacy role in lobbying applicable groups and organisation within Academia, the NHS and government in order to support and develop the aims of the group. 2.2 Proposed Membership of Joint Working Group It was agreed that the chair at all subsequent meetings will be the host of the meeting, who will also supply the minute taker. These meetings will be held at members offices or host institutions and alternate between HEI's and WDC's. The idea of Outside London Involvement would be deleted. It was felt that representation from CHILL might be valuable in due course. 2.3 Frequency of Meeting It was agreed that these meetings are held quarterly through the year, approximately every three months. 3. Information updates from M25 Consortium and London Health Libraries3.1 Widening of external user rights by UK Lib'+. JIW explained that after a formal request from the M25 steering group was put to the UK Lib' + steering group via JIW and Adam Edwards. The steering group agreed to a shortening of student placement weeks from ten to six. This would allow most student nurses and midwives to take advantage of the external user loan system in member HEI's. 3.2 NHS-University MH raised the issue of NHS-U' and the possibility at finding out who the ten selected academic partners are. Action: All Warwick had been chosen as the hosting headquarters. 3.3 e-purchasing BA raised the issue of E-purchasing, and went on to explain that within Medicine this has been achieved with a consortia of HEI's within London. However, the equivalent had not been achieved with institutes of Health Sciences within London. This may be worth investigating and actioning. 3.4 Sherpa Leap Project MH gave her insight into this task force which is involved in the archiving and accessing of academic papers for research by HEI's. 3.5 NHS/HE Forum This was also raised and is a forum consisting of NHS/JISC and HEI's which involves Paul Ayris and Lorraine Estelle, looking at potential shared resources. 3.6 HE e-learning forum London Knowledge group from Greenwich which has been investigating share of networks i.e. NHS net and JANET. Imperial and the Royal Free appear to achieved some of this between their academic and NHS colleagues. Some with terminals for students in their trusts. However, further investigation (and the ways of operation) was thought useful along these lines. 3.7 LHL Information RO gave the group a briefing of the four areas the LHLSDG have been working on. These are:
3.8 In relation to the quality issue BM explained that Maureen Wade from the LSE was working on a Quality Group within M25. It was agreed that Jane would contact her in relation to this issue. Action JW 4. Priorities for 2004
Date of annual meeting between London Health libraries and HE library colleagues - and format for this event It was agreed to discuss this in full at the next meeting. Autumn was suggested as a possible time for the annual meeting. Dates of future working groups of joint working group This was agreed to be on Thursday 6th May at 10.30 am, to be hosted by Richard Osborn. [N.B. Venue to be confirmed: Victory House is not available.] JIW January 2004 |
