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UCL LIBRARY SERVICES ANNUAL REPORT 2006/07
Contents:
Introduction from the DirectorServicesProjectsBuildingsNotable acquisitionsStaffingExternal committeesPublications
Introduction from the Director of Library ServicesDr Paul Ayris
2006-07 has proved to be a notable year in the implementation of the Library's 5-year
Strategy (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/libstrat.shtml). Electronic delivery and the
complete overhaul of UCL's physical library estate are key deliverables in this
Strategy and both are areas where achievements can be reported.
Substantial progress has been made in achieving the first objective with over 40% of
UCL's journal subscriptions now available to UCL users in electronic form only - a
percentage which is set to increase in future years. The launch of UCL's Digital
Collections service is also an important pointer to the future role of academic
libraries. This service aims to makes accessible a range of UCL's academic andscholarly assets - from digitised copies of the Library's Special Collections to eprints
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in the UCL repository. Not only that, the service will also undertake the long-term
digital curation of these assets - a vital service when the average life of a web page is
around 30 days.
In terms of the physical library estate, UCL has established a Master Planning Team
comprising library staff, academic colleagues, colleagues from UCL Estates and
Facilities, and external architects from BDP (Building Design Partnership) to advise
on what the library estate in the twenty-first century should look and feel like.
The Biomedical Administrative Review reported that all libraries in the Faculty of
Biomedical Sciences should merge fully within UCL Library Services. We look
forward to even closer working with colleagues in the former Postgraduate Institutes
and welcome them into UCL Library Services.
I am always impressed by the significant number of projects for which the Library
gains external funding. Project bidding has now become embedded into the Library'sculture. One of the ways in which the Library uses such bidding rounds is to identify
future development paths for modern library and information services. Our
collaboration with UCL SLAIS, and the Library's work on an international Ex Libris E-
Books Working Group, underlines for me that E-Books look set to follow E-Journals
as a major medium for the delivery of content to researchers, teachers and learners
in UCL.
On behalf of UCL, I would like to congratulate all library staff for another successful
year with productive progress to report on many fronts. This progress, and the
resulting changes in the nature of the Library's services, are reported below in the
pages of this Annual Report, available electronically via the Library's website. It is a
sign of the changing nature of library provision that no equivalent paper copy of this
Annual Report is produced. Digital delivery now underpins much of what the Library
does.
Paul Ayris
Director of UCL Library Services
Services
Service developments
Extending our service to users continues to be a major focus, again with particular
emphasis on support for students and on e-strategy development. Two key
appointments - for the first time of a conservator as Preservation Librarian and to the
newly created post of Digital Curation Manager - reflect the importance attached to
the care and curation of collections in both print and electronic formats.
Service enhancements
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The launch of UCL's RALIC (Replacement Access, Library and ID Card) service has
streamlined library registration. The relevant information is now transferred direct
from UCL corporate support systems into the library's membership database,
eliminating the need for a separate library registration process for holders of UCL ID
cards.
A significant number of users who already benefit from extended opening hours also
want to be able to borrow books all the time that the buildings are open. Detailed
planning began early in 2007 for implementing a system, based on radio frequency
ID (RFID) tags that will allow users to borrow books even when the service desks are
closed. It is hoped that the system, due to go live in the UCL Science Library in
summer 2008, will eventually be extended to all other UCL Library Services sites.
The delivery service from the Wickford Store was extended during the year to cover
the UCL Cruciform and UCL SSEES Libraries, the Royal Free Hospital Medical
Library, UCL Library Services and the UCL Institute of Orthopaedics Library. Readers
at these libraries no longer have to go to the main campus to collect requested items
but can instead ask to have them delivered direct to their library.
Enhancing digital access
The Library's portfolio of electronic resources continues to grow and to be heavily
used; an increasing amount of this use is from off-campus as both students and staff
take advantage of the opportunity to work at the place and time which suits them,
unconstrained by library buildings and opening hours.
The popularity of electronic format was demonstrated by the positive reaction to the
move in January 2007 to e-only provision of titles in science, technology and
medicine published by Elsevier. This exercise is due to be repeated for titles from
other major publishers in 2009.
During the year an enhanced 'walk-in' access service was launched. Each library site
now houses a dedicated workstation allowing those Library users who are not staff
and students of UCL access to those electronic resources where the publishers.
licences permit.
As a result of collaboration with colleagues in UCL Information Systems, the Library
catalogue eUCLid and resource discovery tool MetaLib are now available almost
continuously with only a brief nightly outage of a few minutes. Usage statistics show
that a significant and growing number of library users appreciate and make use of
these services throughout the night. http://library.ucl.ac.uk/
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WISE
Resource discovery has also been greatly improved with the introduction of authority
control into the Library catalogue. This ensures that the names, series titles and other
headings contained in over one million records are consistent, so users can be more
confident of having identified all relevant items when they search the catalogue.
Work has continued on providing web-based tutorials on how to make best use of
library resources, with the completion of a new WISEmodule offering guidance to
students in Biomedical and Life Sciences. Two further modules - one for Engineeringand the Built Environment, another for Social & Historical Sciences - are nearing
completion.
The number of items in UCL's open access repository for research papers, UCL
Eprints, has doubled in the past year, making it the 5th largest in the UK. Requests
for access to individual items have more than doubled, and the top papers are
routinely downloaded more than 100 times per month. Amongst the most popular
items are theses: the number of these will increase considerably in the next few
years as UCL's decision to mandate deposition of electronic copies of research
degree theses starts to take effect. http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/
Student support and outreach
On behalf of the University of London's University Libraries Committee, Vincent
Matthews chaired a small group of colleagues from libraries across the federal
University of London to revise the terms of the long-standing University of London
Libraries Access Agreement. This Agreement is an important supplement to other
national schemes allowing access to other HE libraries for UK university students
and staff. For UCL students, the Agreement means that they can use other University
of London libraries during term-time, rather than being restricted to vacation use. Theupdate agreement accepted by the University Libraries Committee is at:
www.london.ac.uk/libraries agreement.html
Library Services was an active participant in UCL's two Open Days for prospective
students in March 2007. Tours, the stand, lots of queries, informal tours and chats
with students and parents, showed us that the Library is an important factor for
visitors. Students were looking for computer access and their parents showed
continued interest in printed resources.
In September 2006 we hosted a group of Gifted and Talented Year 12 students fromQueen's Park Community School as part of an A2 Enrichment Day programme. They
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viewed selected materials from UCL Special Collections' 1914-18 collection to
support their English Literature course. Library Services hosted visits from some 25
different schools during the year, supporting students working for their A levels or
students considering applying to University. Our links with City and Islington College
and in particular its 6th Form Centre continue to develop as we hosted a visit from
some of their Resource Centre staff, recognizing how much we have in common with
split site working as a common background. We extended borrowing and study rights
to those City and Islington 6th Form Centre students who wanted to use our services.
Our seasonal Public Newsletter, UCL Library News was re-launched and as the year
progressed we recognized that in future we shall make this an e-only publication.
Like this report this allows us to include live links and plenty of illustrations.
www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/Newsletter
Exhibitions
The Mocatta exhibition
2007 marked the 350th anniversary of the re-admission of the Jews to England under
Cromwell and the Library with its substantial Hebrew and Jewish collections was well
placed to celebrate the year. In November 2006 a dinner organized by Library
Services was held in UCL with prominent members of the Anglo-Jewish Community
attending. This coincided with a special exhibition in the Library displaying some of
our treasures from UCL Special Collections. We loaned materials for exhibition also
to the Cromwell Museum and the Jewish Museum's touring exhibition for the year.The Chief Rabbi, Dr Jonathan Sacks, used the Library and its collections as a
backdrop to a BBC television programme on the 350th anniversary. Fortuitously the
year also saw the centenary of the reception of the Mocatta Collection into UCL
becoming the cornerstone of Library Services' Hebrew and Jewish collections and
we were pleased to meet so many members of the current Mocatta family at the
exhibition opening and dinner.
During the summer Library Staff displayed some of their own private collections in an
exhibition called Eclectica. The mix of books, large and small, model buses, soldiers,
owls and pigs sat well with antique lace and proved popular. Another library staffexhibition is planned for summer 2008.
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A Box of Useful Knowledge (Brougham Papers)As the new session started an exhibition on the history of Laws at UCL showed our
fine collections to great effect and was further enhanced by an intervention in the
closing weeks by a Slade School student.
Each exhibition is now accompanied by an illustrated booklet describing the items on
show and written by a team of willing volunteers. The newly formed Exhibitions
Group is now finding its feet and planning an ambitious range of two major
exhibitions every year, usually accompanied by an opening party and celebration.
Projects
Project work is a very important element of the Library's remit, with the focus on
collection care and enhancing access, and research and development. In the case of
materials from UCL Special Collections, this includes preservation of important
documents and preparing collections for digitisation. In the case of digital resources,
this again includes both the provision of content and the further development of
methodologies aimed at ensuring preservation and long-term access.
UCL Special Collections
Art for medicine's sake, the project for the restoration of the pathological anatomy
drawings and watercolours of Sir Robert Carswell (1793-1857), was completed in
December 2006, thanks to a grant from the Wellcome Foundation. A link to the full
listing of all the 1031 items in the collection can be found on the website at
www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/special-coll/carswell.shtml.
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Conditions of the Brain, watercolour pathologicaldrawing by Carswell
Bentham papers
A further phase of the ongoing project for the deacidification and encapsulation of the
papers of Jeremy Bentham, covering over 1,500 documents on the Constitutional
Code and the Jury System, was completed thanks to a grant from the National
Manuscripts Conservation fund. www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/special-coll/bentham.shtml
Gaster papers
A grant from MLA-London has enabled us to re-house and re-box part of the
correspondence of Sir Moses Gaster (1856-1939). The Gaster papers comprise anextensive collection of over 170,000 items include letters from many important
contemporaries as well as a wide range of other items collected by Gaster.
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Judaica
A grant from UCL Futures has enabled conservation treatment to be carried out on a
number of Anglo-Jewish pamphlets in preparation for digitisation work. The ultimate
aim is to produce a digital version of what is a virtually complete published record of
the history of Anglo-Jewry in the nineteenth and first part of the twentieth centuries.
Hume Tracts
The Hume Tracts, a collection of pamphlets assembled by the nineteenth-century
radical politician Joseph Hume (1777-1855) and covering themes ranging from
parliamentary reform, through the abolition of slavery in British colonies to the
problem of obtaining corpses for dissection in anatomy classes, are included in a
project to digitise 19th century pamphlets. The project is led by CURL, the
Consortium of Research Libraries in the British Isles, and work to prepare the
collection for digitisation has been completed. www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/special-
coll/hume.shtml
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UCL Wickford Store
UCL is currently engaged in a pilot project with Cambridge University Library with the
aim of formally sharing responsibility for long-term storage of print materials in
targeted collections. The methodology developed and tested in respect of two
collections will be more widely applicable and will enable UCL to participate in similar
initiatives both regionally and nationally.
E-resources specialist subject coverage
NLH - Neurological Conditions Specialist Library Building on its success with the
Gastroenterology & Liver Diseases Specialist Library last year, the specialist libraries
team at the Royal Free Hospital Medical Library, UCL Library Services was awarded
the contract in late 2006 to develop the Neurological Conditions Specialist Library.
This is part of the National Library for Health and provides information targeted at
NHS healthcare professionals. www.library.nhs.uk/neurological
E-resources support for teaching & learning
SuperBook Project
The Library was a partner in the SuperBook Project, led by the UCL School of
Library, Archive and Information Studies, with the aim of users. attitudes to and use
of electronic books. One outcome is that UCL staff and students now have continuing
access to four collections (of over 1,200 titles) that were heavily used during the
project. In the longer term, the findings of the associated surveys will inform further
development of the Library's e-resources strategy.
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Repositories / digital preservation
LASSO
The LASSO (LEAP Aggregated Search Service On-line) project is the third phase of
SHERPA-LEAP, the London Eprints Access Project, and began in March 2007. One
of the main aims of the project is to design and implement a single interface to allow
cross-searching of the content of all the eprint repositories involved in SHERPA-
LEAP. www.sherpa-leap.ac.uk/lasso.html
EMBRACE
The aim of the EMBRACE project, which began in May 2007, is to enhance the
repositories involved in SHERPA-LEAP. This will include the development of a tool to
embed citations and other information into the text of eprints. The project will also
investigate issues around the advocacy of repositories of digital assets. www.sherpa-
leap.ac.uk/embrace.html"
RIOJA
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(Joint Information Systems Committee), as part of its Repositories and Preservation
Programme. RIOJA is a partnership, led by UCL and involving four other universities
in the UK and the USA. The main aim of the project, which began in March 2007, is
to investigate issues around quality assurance in papers deposited in eprints
repositories, focusing on astrophysics and cosmology.www.ucl.ac.uk/ls/rioja/
Identity Project
UCL is a partner in the Identity Project, which began in November 2006 with the aim
of investigating issues around authenticating access to networked resources. It is
funded by the JISC as part of its e-Infrastructure Programme, and complements work
being carried out in-house in collaboration with UCL Information Systems on
Shibboleth, the system of user authentication that UCL will shortly be introducing.
www.angel.ac.uk/identity-project/index.html
LIFE 2
LIFE Phase 2 is a European collaboration between the LIBER Access and
Preservation Divisions. Its aim is to identify economic models for the curation of
digital assets and their long-term digital preservation. Phase 2 of the project, which
began on 1 March 2007, will firm up the models developed in Phase 1, test the
models on a further range of assets - including the Open Access repositories in their
UCL-led SHERPA-LEAP partnership, and compare the costs of digital versus
analogue preservation. http://www.life.ac.uk/2
Buildings
With so many sites to manage there is always some building or refurbishment activity
happening in Library Services. This year we were pleased to be involved in planning
substantial work in the UCL Main Library funded by a CURL-Wolfson grant. The
plans for work to start in the summer of 2007 will provide new reading rooms for Art
and Art History and Economics and Philosophy. These disparate collections housed
in the fine Donaldson Reading Room will give way to a new reading room for Law.
Funding will be needed to bring the Donaldson Reading Room up to the standards
required for our students. It is hoped that the move into the new reading rooms will
happen early in 2008. Laws collections meanwhile will be housed in an area
contiguous to the Library until the work is finished. We hope that the patience of our
users (and some displaced staff) will be rewarded by splendid new accommodation.
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UCL Donaldson Reading Room
A second round of bids for CURL-Wolfson funding resulted in a successful allocation
of funds to start some much-needed refurbishment of the ground floor of the Science
Library. Planning is underway for this to be achieved during 2008-9. Part of the
planning includes our first installation of Self-issue equipment with Radio-Frequency
(RFID) tagging.
Elsewhere, work began on a basement extension and refurbishment for the Library at
the Royal Free Hospital. The Human Communication Science Library moved into
temporary accommodation while its usual abode was refurbished. It is hoped that the
new accommodation will be ready in 2008. Meanwhile the stunning new SSEES
Library, whose opening was reported previously proved its worth by doubling its
footfall in the summer of 2007.
On the strategic front the Director launched an ambitious Masterplanning exercise for
the Library estate with the help of BDP Architects and with academic membership ofthe group. The report of this wide-ranging study is expected to be presented to UCL
early in 2008.
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Notable Acquisitions / Donations
Mocatta Donation
The Mocatta Haggadah (MS Mocatta 1)
During the year Library Services was delighted to receive a generous donation from
Patrick and William Mocatta to help conserve and properly store the valuable
collections which were deposited on the death of their ancestor Frederic Mocatta. A
proper review of the collection will suggest which items most deserve special
treatment.
Robert Jonckheere
In August 2006, the papers of Robert Jonckheere (1920-2005), formerly Senior
Lecturer in Psychology, UCL were presented by his widow Dr Sophie Botros. They
include correspondence with important psychologists and statisticians such as Sir
Cyril Burt, with whom he worked, as well as research files.
Lewis Trust
In February 2007, a further 9 printed books were deposited by the Lewis Trust,
including Jewish Marriage Laws by John Selden, 1646, and The Ceremonies of the
Present Jews, 1728. A rare copy of Lady Judith Montefiore's The Jewish Manual,
1846 was also included.
Eric Burhop
In May 2007, 11 boxes of additional papers of the nuclear physicist Professor Eric
Burhop, FRS (1911-1980) consisting mainly of papers relating to Pugwash
conferences in the 1950s and 60s, and the Moscow Symposium of 1975 were
presented by his son Graham Burhop.
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Malcolm Lilly
The papers and correspondence of Malcolm Lilly, FEng FRS (1936-1998) were
presented by his widow Mrs Sheila Lilly.
British Deaf History
A small collection of archival and related material covering British Deaf history,
including original registers and punishment book from the Blanche Nevile School for
the Deaf in Haringay, was presented to the the UCL Institute of Laryngology and
Otology and RNID Library.
Staffing
From more or less the first day of the 2006-7 session, the Main Library's Information
Point on the ground floor of the Wilkins Building was staffed by a team of library staff
newly led by Dayaram Nakrani, our full-time Information Point Officer, jointly funded
by UCL Estates & Facilities. As the first point of entry to the main Wilkins building
Dayaram and his colleagues aim to provide a welcoming and friendly enquiry service,
covering not just UCL Library Services but also help and guidance on UCL campus
events, contacts and locations.
Staff Conference
June 2007 saw the first ever one-day conference of all UCL Library Services Staff.
With a keynote speech from the Provost surprised to see so many Library staff in one
lecture theatre, 170 people (more than three quarters of the staff) gathered for a day
of training sessions, participative and informative workshops, and team-building
activities. The day gave an opportunity for staff from all the libraries within UCL to
meet each other, often for the first time, and exchange views and ideas. The Staff
Conference proved so popular that it is to become a regular feature of the Library
Services year.
Fred Bearman, a distinguished conservator, was recruited as Preservation Librarian
in January 2007. This is the first time we have ever had a conservator on the staff.
His influence has already been seen all around the Library, as he advises us on
collections care, and particularly on the care of our Special Collections. Fred arrivedin time for the final planning of the conservation studio in the Institute for Cultural
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Heritage, and is already involved in plans for preparing the Special Collections for the
move.
The session saw the establishment of a new post of Digital Curation Manager to
which Martin Moyle was appointed. Martin brought with him into the IT Services
Group the staff working on the externally-funded SHERPA-LEAP and RIOJA
projects.
During the year we welcomed several other new colleagues and said goodbye and
happy retirement to others, notably John Allen our combined English and Philosophy
Subject Librarian and Buildings Officer and Patricia Campbell, for much of her time at
UCL Librarian of the Boldero Library at the Middlesex Hospital and Spanish Subject
Librarian and latterly Deputy Librarian at the Cruciform Library.
During the year an online fortnightly Staff Newsletter, LibNet News was launched
with an enthusiastic editorial group led by the Deputy Director who take turns at theEditorial desk and report Library Services various activities to their colleagues. The
mix of serious news and information and articles on different sites and interests is
becoming established as a good medium for communication as email boxes
overflow.
External Committee Memberships
Director - Paul Ayris
CURL/SCONUL
Joint Scholarly Communications Group
Ex Libris
Internationa E-books Working Group
HEFCE
Review of the Research Information Network (Chair)
Joint Information Systems Committee
Repositories and Preservation Advisory Group
Journals Working Group
SPECTRA Project Board (Chair)
UC Cream of Science Feasibility Study (Chair)Lambeth Palace
Advisory Panel for Libraries and Archives, Lambeth Palace
LIBER
LIBER Board Member
Access Division (Chair)
SPARC Europe Board (Secretary)
Open Scholarship Organising Committee, Glasgow 2006 (Chair)
OA15 Organising Committe, Geneva 2007 (Chair)
LIBER/EBLIDA
Digitisation Expert Group
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National Library for Health
Board
Research Information Network(RIN)
Research Communications Group
Royal College of Physicians
Royal College of Physicians Library Committee
SCONUL
Health Strategy Group
SHERPA
SHERPA partnership Management Group (Chair)
Wellcome Trust
Wellcome Trust Library Advisory Committee (Deputy Chair)
Medical Journals Backfiles Digitisation Project Board
University of London
University Libraries Committee (Deputy Chair)
ULC National Initiatives Working Group
SHERPA-LEAP Consortium (Chair)
Deputy Director - Elizabeth Chapman
CURL
Chair of Taskforce on Resource Management
SCONULMember of Executive Board from June 2006
M25 Consortium
Resource Discovery Working Group until 2006
SWETS (Netherlands)
International Advisory Board
SCONUL
Member of Executive Board from June 2006
Library collections, acquisitions, and technical services
Editorial Board MemberJournal of librarianship and information service
Editorial Board Member
Group Manager, Planning and Resources - Janet Percival
Board of Archives for London
Company Secretary
M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries
Working Group on Quality
Working Group on Marketing and Communication
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Group Manager, Bibliographic Services - Diana Mercer
Linnean Society of London
Collections Committee
Group Manager, Reader Services - Vincent Matthews
University of London
University Libraries Committee (Chair of group to revise University of London
Libraries Access Agreement)
Head of Special Collections - Gill Furlong
Linnean Society Library
Collections Commitee
HERON User Group
Committee
CPD25
User Resources and Services Task Group
Head of Periodicals - Karen Jeger
JISC Collections
Library Advisory Working Group
Academic Support Manager, Science Team - Gavin Beattie
M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries
Resource Discovery Working Group
UCL Environmental Studies Library, Site Librarian - Angela Jefkins
CILIP
Career Development Group, London & South East Committee
Royal Free Hospital Medical School Library, UCL Library Services, SiteLibrarian - Betsy Anagnostelis
Committees
University Medical School Librarians Group (UMSLG) - Chair
NLH Content and Collections Development Group
NLH Technical Design Authority Group
M25/London Health Libraries Group.
HE-NHS Forum
NHS-HE Content Procurement Group
eKAT (electronic Knowledge Access Team) Technical Reference GroupRoyal College of Physicians Library Committee
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JISC ebooks observatory project board
Royal Free Hospital Medical Library, UCL Library Services - Sara Clarke
CILIP
Health Libraries Group
Royal Free Hospital Medical Library, UCL Library Services - MarinaWaddington
CILIP
Health Libraries Group
Staff presentations, conference papers & publications
Staff presentations and conference papers
Director - Paul Ayris
2 August 2006: Open Access: its Potential for the Future. An invitation talk
given to staff at Sage Publications, London, UK.
5 September 2006: Change Managementat The Library Service of the Future
for Central Banks and Regulatory Agencies at King's College, Cambridge
7 September 2006: Possibilities for central bank library collaboration at The
Library Service of the Future for Central Banks and Regulatory Agencies at
King's College, Cambridge
20 October 2006: Pulling Together the Threads: Next Steps for Repositories
at Open Scholarship: New Challenges for Open Access Repositories at the
University of Glasgow
3 November 2006: The UNICA Scholarly Communications Group at the
Annual General Assembly, Riga, Latvia
9 November 2006: E-Books in the context of E-Learning Strategy at E-book
nelle biblioteche accademiche. Ancora un cambiamento da governare,Bologna, Italy
12 January 2007: The DART-Europe Project: towards developing a European
Theses Portal, at the Universitat Politcnica de Catalunya
15 February 2007: The Future of Scholarly Publishingat the EU Conference
Scientific Publishing in the European Research Area: Access, Dissemination
and Preservation in the Digital Age, Brussels 15-16 February 2007
19 February 2007: Strategic Directions and Operational Challenges in
Supporting Research at Supporting Researchers: Strategy, Policy and
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Practice for Library and Information Services, UC+R (London) Conference,
Birkbeck College
23 March 2007: UCL Library Services and Quality Measures at Measuring
Quality in Libraries. A Seminar organised by the LIBER Division of Library
Management and Administration at the Bibliothque Nationale, Paris
27 March 2007: Research Library Perspectives at the E-Journal Archiving
and Preservation Workshop under the auspices of the JISC, the British
Library and the Digital Preservation Coalition
20 April 2007: Pulling Together the Threads at OAI5 at the 5th Cern
Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI5), Geneva
5-6 June 2007: Institutional Issues: a London Casebook at Digital
Repositories: Dealing with the Digital Deluge, the JISC Digital RepositoriesConference, Manchester
5-6 June 2007: The DART-Europe project: towards developing a European
theses portal, at Digital Repositories: Dealing with the Digital Deluge, the
JISC Repositories Conference, Manchester
15 June 2007: What does a 21st-century library service look and feel like? at
the 1st UCL Library Services Staff Conference, UCL
29 June 2007: The Work of UNICA in the Context of New Modes of
Publication and Dissemination at the SLAIS E-Publishing Summer School,
UCL
Deputy Director - Elizabeth Chapman
Why have e-books never taken off? Fiesole Retreat, Lund, August 2006
Preparing for emergenciesInvited session for staff of Royal Library and other
Danish cultural institutions, Copenhagen, August 2006
Emergency Planning after July 2005 Conference for National Bank
Information Officers, Cambridge, September 2006
Managing Multi-site services M25 CpD meeting, Anglia Ruskin University,
May 2007
E- for Everything, UCL Summer School for New York Pratt ILS students, June
2007
Teaching & Learning Support Service Co-ordinator - June Hedges
20th March 2007: Developing and digital course reading service across
UCL's sites at the Scanning Practice Event, University of Warwick LibraryResearch Innovation Unit.
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IT Services Development Officer - Margaret Flett
23 August 2006: Implementing cross search tools: challenges and
opportunities at Meeting the challenge of the Google Generation - technologyor training?, ALISS conference, London
4-7 September 2006: MARCIt! and other Aleph/SFX integrations (conference
poster) at First IGeLU conference, Stockholm
27 February 2007: New forms of discovery: the academic perspective at
Association of Subscription Agents and Intermediaries Conference, Royal
College of Nursing, London
6 March 2007: MetaLib statistics at SFX and MetaLib User Group (UK &
Ireland), British Library, London
21 May 2007: UCL's preparations for Shibboleth at CPD25 seminar, Access
to Electronic Resources - are you ready for Shibboleth?, School of Oriental
and African Studies, London
IT Services Digital Curation Manager - Martin Moyle
28 March 2007: The evolution of a repository: policy decisions at UCL at
SHERPA-LEAP Workshop on Institutional Repositories, London
18-20 April 2007: Polydoratou, P. and Moyle, M. Exploring overlay journals:the RIOJA project at CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly
Communication (OAI5), Geneva, Switzerland
5-6 June 2007: Moyle, M. and Polydoratou, P. Exploring overlay journals: the
RIOJA project at Digital Repositories: Dealing with the Data Deluge,
Manchester, UK.
13-16 June 2007: The DART-Europe E-theses Portal at ETD 2007: Added
Values to E-theses. European E-theses Working Group Workshop, Uppsala,
Sweden
IT Services SHERPA-LEAP Project Officer - Rebecca Stockley
28 March 2007: Accessible repositories at SHERPA-LEAP Workshop on
Institutional Repositories, London
Royal Free Hospital Medical School Library, UCL Library Services- Betsy Anagnostelis
10 July 2007: Introduction to literature searching for systematic reviews at
Oxford Brookes University Systematic Reviews course, Oxford
- Sara Clarke
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May 2007 Clinical Librarians and Specialist Libraries at Clinical Librarian
Conference, York
Staff publications
Director - Paul Ayris
Hyams, E., "Moving Beyond E-Journals. An interview with Dr Paul Ayris".
Library and Information Update, 5(10) (2006), pp. 18-20
McLeod, R., Wheatley, P. and Ayris, P. Lifecycle information for e-literature: a
summary from the LIFE project (2006)
McLeod, R., Wheatley, P. and Ayris, P. Lifecycle information for e-literature:
full report from the LIFE project (2006)
Deputy Director - Elizabeth Chapman
A classic renewal: UCL's building programme. CILIP Update, 31 - 34, 2006 5
(7/8)
Libraries and librarians in the electronic age. with F. Webster, in The
Cambridge history of libraries in Britain and Ireland, vol 3:639 - 653.
Cambridge University Press, 2006
IT Services Digital Curation Manager - Martin Moyle and colleagues
Moyle, M., Stockley, R. and Tonkin, S. "SHERPA-LEAP: a consortial model
for the creation and support of academic institutional repositories." OCLC
Systems and Services, 23 (2) pp. 125-132
Credits
Editors: Elizabeth Chapman and Diana Mercer
Design: Nathaniel Catchpole
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