Issue 21 of Focus on UKOLN, the electronic newsletter which provides news, opinion and information on the wide range of activities undertaken by UKOLN, was published recently.
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010Appointment of UKOLN Deputy Director
Friday, January 8th, 2010Paul Walk has been appointed as Deputy Director of UKOLN.
This post will provide technical leadership, vision and strategic insight across a wide range of digital library contexts, for education and research and across the range of UKOLN activities ensuring that UKOLN addresses the requirements of its user communities.
UKOLN, as a JISC Innovation Support Centre, has responsibility for the support of innovation and development in JISC-funded programmes and projects, especially within the Information Environment, and in this context, Paul will be providing leadership, strategic co-ordination and oversight of all JISC-funded technical innovation activity at UKOLN.
Paul joined UKOLN in September 2007, as Technical Manager and Team Leader for the Software and Systems Team. Paul had previously worked for fifteen years in Higher Education in London, primarily in the development and provision of technical library and Web services.
Paul says of his appointment, “I’m delighted to have been offered this opportunity. At UKOLN I am fortunate in having colleagues who are individually talented and who, collectively, offer an extraordinary range of expertise. I look forward to helping to lead them in facing the very real challenges which lie ahead.”
CILIP Update Eyes Google Wave and Libraries
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010CILIP’s Library & Information Update
blog recently mentioned “an interesting guest post on a UKOLN blog – by David Jenkins, Assistant Librarian in the Electronic Resources Development Team at Manchester Metropolitan University – about” Google Wave and libraries. The UKOLN blog Cultural Heritage had featured a post by Marieke Guy of UKOLN in which she invited David to summarise his findings regarding Google Wave usage among librarians. In his post to the CILIP Update blog, Matthew Mezey, News Editor, Library + Information Update Magazine, noted in particular David’s conclusions at the end of his summary for Cultural Heritage.
Serving Digital Citizens
Thursday, December 17th, 2009Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, spoke recently at the MLA/LGA Conference on modernisation of public library services entitled 1964 and all that: modernising your public library service. In the session on The Digital Future for Libraries Liz gave a short talk entitled Serving Digital Citizens: Public Libraries in the 21stC?. Slides from her talk are now available.
Empowering Users and Institutions
Thursday, December 10th, 2009Brian Kelly will present a paper entitled Empowering Users and Institutions: A Risks and Opportunities Framework for Exploiting the Social Web at the Cultural Heritage Online 2009 Conference which will be held in Florence over 15 – 16 December 2009.
1964 and All That: Modernising Your Public Library Service
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009Dame Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of the British Library and Dr Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, have been invited to speak at the MLA/LGA Conference on modernisation of public library services. The Conference will take place on 14 December 2009 at the Local Government House Conference Centre, Smith Square, London. Lynne Brindley and Liz Lyon will provide a session entitled The Digital Future for Libraries.
Open Science – the future for research?
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN and Associate Director of the Digital Curation Centre, has written a new report on Open Science as part of JISC’s ‘Research 3.0 – driving the knowledge economy’ activity which launches at the end of November. The consultative report, entitled Open Science at Web-Scale: Optimising Participation and Predictive Potential identifies open-ness, predictive science based on massive data volumes, and citizen involvement as being important features of tomorrow’s research practice.
Open Science at Web Scale Closes eResearch Australia 2009
Friday, November 6th, 2009Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, has been invited to give the locknote address at the close of the eResearch Australia 2009 Conference to be held in Sydney over 9 – 13 November. Her locknote presentation entitled Open Science at Web Scale: breaking all boundaries? will seek to challenge our established notions of the research landscape by extending the boundaries to explore the full potential of 21st Century team science.
IDCC 09 – Programme of Workshops
Thursday, November 5th, 2009 The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) will be hosting a workshop programme on 2 December, followed by a Pre-Conference Drinks Reception at the Natural History Museum. Places are limited so please register now. Registration to close on 20 November 2009.
Digital Curation Approaches for Architecture
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009The DCC SCARP Case Study Digital Curation approaches for Architecture is now published. This sixth DCC SCARP Case Study highlights choices in how to provide for appropriate care of digital objects and options for digital curation treatment. These approaches will serve to promote more effective architectural practice and research, both now and in the future.