Possible Ways Forward

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Possible Ways Forward

• Sarah Ormes
• UKOLN
• University of Bath
• Bath, BA2 7AY
• http//www.ukoln.ac.uk/

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New Learning New Libraries?

• Any place, any time, anywhere,Theres a
  wonderful world you can share, Thats Lifelong
  Learning.
• Learning becoming cross-sectoral and networked
  based

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Introducing Hilary

• Yet another scenario
• Part time office administrator
• Studying for a diploma in Spanish
• Evening classes in IT
• Lives in Lanmore
• Multi-library user

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Introducing Lanmore

• Lanmore is a medium sized city
• Two universities
• Fairly large public library service
• A number of further education colleges
• All geographically dispersed

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Hilary goes to the library

• Not easy to search catalogues
• Only allowed into one University Library
• Staff unable to help her
• Local public library is shut
• Cant borrow just photocopy

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Flows or Blockages

• Difficult finding information about library
  resources
• Inconsistent access policies
• Some libraries do andsome libraries dont
• Differing resources policies
• Not flows but blockages

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First Steps

• Access to all libraries (Sheffield)
• Union catalogue of journals (SULOS)
• Joint training and awareness (WMRLS)
• Making catalogues available where possible
• Promotion and raising awareness of the public -
  (Sheffield, Sunderland)

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A New Scenario?

• College librarian suggests using union journal
  catalogue
• Goes to the university library with the right
  journal
• Staff explain the level of service they can
  provide her
• Finds the journal and but not the book but finds
  out where it is.

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Scenario Two

• Uses city learning centre CD-Roms
• Finds article immediately
• Uses web page linking to all local library
  catalogues
• Finds book in nearest FE college
• Uses library card to borrow book

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Scenario two - how it works

• All Catalogues online
• The city wide library card
• High level of cooperation (WRMLS)
• City wide vision of supporting learning
  (Sunderland)

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Scenario Three

• Accesses electronic journals over city learning
  network
• Searches all library catalogues at once
• Finds a new electronic edition available
• Purchases a cheap copy using her library card

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Scenario Three - how it works

• Consortium purchasing of electronic resources
  (Sunderland)
• The Learning Card (Sunderland)
• Consortium stock selection (CALIM)
• Cross catalogue searching (Clumps)

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Sunderland - the learning city

• Learning World
• Multi-agency electronic library
• LASH - Library Access Scheme
• Awareness sessions for staff
• Full text electronic provision across the city

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Other Issues

• Study space
• Heavily used resources and special collections
• Role of the Regional Library Services
• Student use of public libraries
• New Library - new librarian?

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Looking forward

• Most of the solutions technically possible
  already
• Not three separate models but one continuous one
• Networking makes it easier but it wont work
  without cooperation
• Are we ready for the challenge?

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UKOLN is funded by the British Library Research
and Innovation Centre, the Joint Information
Systems Committee of the Higher Education Funding
Councils, as well as by project funding from the
JISCs Electronic Libraries Programme and the
European Union. UKOLN also receives support from
the University of Bath where it is based.