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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.

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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

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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

RIOJA (Repository Interface for Overlaid Journal Archives) is funded by the JISC
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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

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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

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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


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


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.


18/19

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


19/19

May 2007 Clinical Librarians and Specialist Libraries at Clinical Librarian

Conference, York

Staff publications


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)


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

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Editors: Elizabeth Chapman and Diana Mercer

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