curl Consortium of University Research Libraries Research Libraries of the British Isles in cooperat

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curl Consortium of University Research
Libraries Research Libraries of the British
Isles in co-operation

• Marie-Pierre Détraz
• Executive Secretary
• Bristol University, June 2002

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curl Consortium of University Research
Libraries Research Libraries of the British
Isles in co-operation

• A bit of History
• CURL founded in 1983
• 7 founder members
• Cambridge
• Edinburgh
• Glasgow
• Leeds
• London (Senate House)
• Manchester
• Oxford
• Focus on shared bibliographic database

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curl Consortium of University Research
Libraries Research Libraries of the British
Isles in co-operation

• CURL - The Company
• Company set up in 1992 - Charitable status
• A broader mission
• To promote, maintain and improve library
  resources for research in universities
• Memorandum of Association, June 1992
• Part-time Assistant Secretary
• Full-time Executive Secretary since 1997

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curl Consortium of University Research
Libraries Research Libraries of the British
Isles in co-operation

• Membership
• 25 full members
• Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bristol, British Library,
  Cambridge, Dublin (TCD), Durham, Edinburgh,
  Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London (ULL), LSE,
  Imperial College, KCL, UCL, Manchester, National
  Library of Scotland, National Library of Wales,
  Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford, Sheffield,
  Southampton, Warwick
• 1 associate member Wellcome Library
• 1 partner School of Advanced Studies
• Different rights and responsibilities (see
  http//www.curl.ac.uk/members/rights.html

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curl Consortium of University Research
Libraries Research Libraries of the British
Isles in co-operation

• Directors
• Member institutions head librarians
• Meet twice a year
• Board
• 8 members elected by the Directors
• Meet five times a year
• Tom Graham (Chair) Newcastle
• Paul Ayris UCL
• John Hall Durham
• Michael Hannon (Treasurer) Sheffield
• Clare Jenkins Imperial College
• Ian Mowat Edinburgh
• Frances Thomson Liverpool
• Jan Wilkinson Leeds

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curl Consortium of University Research
Libraries Research Libraries of the British
Isles in co-operation

• Secretariat
• The University of Birmingham
• Executive Secretary Marie-Pierre Détraz
• m.detraz_at_bham.ac.uk 0121 415 8106
• Database Officer / Deputy Secretary Mike
  Mertens
• m.j.mertens_at_bham.ac.uk 0121 415 8107
• Administrative Assistant - Joy West
• j.a.west_at_bham.ac.uk 0121 415 8108

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curl Consortium of University Research
Libraries Research Libraries of the British
Isles in co-operation

• Role of the Secretariat
• Executive Secretary is responsible to the Board
  for
• the executive oversight of CURLs initiatives
• all aspects of CURLs formal company business
• liaising with CURL Member Representatives and
  their staff
• providing a coordinating and reporting mechanism
  for all groups that CURL might want to establish
  etc.
• Database Officer / Deputy Secretary is
  responsible for
• Matters to do with the CURLs record retrieval
  service COPAC
• Assisting in implementing CURLs initiatives
• Assisting in publicising the work of the
  Consortium etc.

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curl Consortium of University Research
Libraries Research Libraries of the British
Isles in co-operation

• RDD and Task Forces
• Resource Description Discovery Steering Group
  (John Hall, Chair)
• Task Forces
• Resource Management (Jan Wilkinson, Convenor)
• Scholarly Communications (Paul Ayris, Convenor)
• Staffing Resources (Frances Thomson, Convenor)
• Teaching and Learning (Ian Mowat, Convenor)
• To implement the Strategic Plan as defined by the
  Members and the Board

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curl Consortium of University Research
Libraries Research Libraries of the British
Isles in co-operation

• Strategic Plan
• To provide strong leadership and opportunities
  for innovations
• To provide researchers with physical and virtual
  access to the shares resources of all the CURL
  libraries
• To develop a strategic business plan for CURLs
  future directions
• To consider CURLs mission and membership in the
  light of cross-sectoral and cross domain
  developments nationally
• For more details see http//www.curl.ac.uk/members
  /strategic00-04.html

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curl Consortium of University Research
Libraries Research Libraries of the British
Isles in co-operation

• Current Activities (1) RDD
• CURL Database COPAC Developments
• CURL Database for Record Retrieval
• Data loading programme for new members and
  members with new systems
• Over 10 million records from the BLPC (only for
  members) (in all ca. 35 million records)
• Records of Bristol, NLW and NLS to be loaded when
  the database has been converting to MARC 21
• Possible CURL-BL joint marketing strategy

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curl Consortium of University Research
Libraries Research Libraries of the British
Isles in co-operation

• Current Activities (2) RDD
• CURL Database COPAC Developments
• COPAC for Resource Discovery (1)
• 23 CURL libraries contribute (inc. Wellcome
  Library and SAS)
• BLPC records available via Z39.50
• Still to be loaded KCL, Bristol, NLW, NLS
• Live circulation data of half of the libraries
• (http//www.copac.ac.uk)

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curl Consortium of University Research
Libraries Research Libraries of the British
Isles in co-operation

• Current Activities (3) RDD
• CURL Database COPAC Developments
• COPAC for Resource Discovery (2)
• NLW NLS records available via COPAC V3
• COPAC V3 to be finalised in Autumn 02
• MIMAS to work on the Clumps Projects
• COPAC building block for UK NUC?

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curl Consortium of University Research
Libraries Research Libraries of the British
Isles in co-operation

• Current Activities (4) RDD
• CURL Database COPAC Developments
• Archives Hub http//www.archiveshub.ac.uk
• 7,682 records available by 8 May 02
• Ca. 20,000 by August 03
• Ongoing work on distributed model
• Proposal to JISC to turn it into service
• SUNCAT
• Possible joint bid with MIMAS?

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curl Consortium of University Research
Libraries Research Libraries of the British
Isles in co-operation

• Current Activities (5) Resource Management
• Collaborative Collection Management Issues (1)
• Brief of the Task Force
• To look at possible collaborative ways of
  tackling
• Acquisition
• Retention
• Preservation
• Digitisation
• Access

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curl Consortium of University Research
Libraries Research Libraries of the British
Isles in co-operation

• Current Activities (6) Resource Management
• Collaborative Collection Management Issues (2)
• Why Collaborate?
• No longer possible for each library to do
  everything
• Expectations of users keep raising
• Lack of space
• Opportunities
• Rapid developments of CIT and e-publishing
• Opportunities for a joint strategy with the
  national libraries

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curl Consortium of University Research
Libraries Research Libraries of the British
Isles in co-operation

• Current Activities (7) Resource Management
• Collaborative Collection Management Issues (3)
• Barriers to Collaboration
• See RSLP project Barriers to Collaboration Among
  HE Libraries at http//www.rslp.ac.uk/circs/
• No deep resource sharing
• Deep resource sharing when library gives up
  ownership
• Librarians and academics tend to be risk averse
• Devolved library budgets to faculties
• Competition between universities
• CURL need to explore further

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curl Consortium of University Research
Libraries Research Libraries of the British
Isles in co-operation

• Current Activities (8) Resource Management
• Collaborative Collection Management Issues (4)
• Two Main Initiatives
• Pilot project to explore deep sharing
  (COCOREES?) across the 5 areas
• Feasibility study to explore business models for
  a UK-wide inter-lending framework in close
  cooperation with the BL (neither BLDSC nor
  CURL-SHARES are sustainable)

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curl Consortium of University Research
Libraries Research Libraries of the British
Isles in co-operation

• Current Activities (9) Resource Management
• CEDARS (1)
• CURL Exemplars in Digital Archives
• Project over period April 98 March 02
• Funded by JISC
• Part of the eLib Programme
• The only eLib project on digital preservation
• Partners Cambridge, Leeds and Oxford

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curl Consortium of University Research
Libraries Research Libraries of the British
Isles in co-operation

• Current Activities (10) Resource Management
• CEDARS (2)
• CURL Exemplars in Digital Archives
• Disseminated Outcomes
• 5 CEDARS Guides
• Preservation Metadata
• IPR
• Collection Management
• Technical Strategies
• The Digital Archiving Prototype
• See http//www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/

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curl Consortium of University Research
Libraries Research Libraries of the British
Isles in co-operation

• Current Activities (11) Resource Management
• CEDARS (3)
• CURL Exemplars in Digital Archives
• Some of the Issues
• Preservation decisions need to be considered at
  the time of acquisition
• What standards to apply? See, e.g.,
  recommendations of the OCLC/RLG Preservation
  Metadata Working Group
• What digital data need to be preserved?
• Who will do what? Should legal deposit libraries
  bear most of the responsibility? Should some of
  the responsibility lie with the publishers? What
  about institutional electronic records?
• IPR should include the right to do what needs to
  be done to ensure that the data remain
  intelligible (because of constantly changing
  technology)

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curl Consortium of University Research
Libraries Research Libraries of the British
Isles in co-operation

• Current Activities (12) Resource Management
• CEDARS (4)
• CURL Exemplars in Digital Archives
• Some of CEDARS Assumptions
• Preservation to be organised on collaborative
  basis
• All institutions will need to manage the digital
  objects they create
• Ultimately, a relatively small number of trusted
  digital repositories will undertake long-term
  preservation on behalf of others

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curl Consortium of University Research
Libraries Research Libraries of the British
Isles in co-operation

• Current Activities (13)
• Teaching Learning
• Project looking at students information seeking
  behaviour in CURL institutions
• Consortial testing of OCLC QuestionPoint
• Compilation of a CURL wish list for the content
  of NetLibrary
• Staffing resources
• CURL conferences and events
• Staff Development Focus Group

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curl Consortium of University Research
Libraries Research Libraries of the British
Isles in co-operation

• Current Activities (14)
• Scholarly Communications (1)
• Main Issues
• Spiralling costs of journals
• Need for new pricing models for ejournals
• IPR why do researchers give it away to
  publishers for free?
• Alternative journals (SPARC SPARC Europe)
• E-print / open archives

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curl Consortium of University Research
Libraries Research Libraries of the British
Isles in co-operation

• Current Activities (15)
• Scholarly Communications (2)
• Main Initiatives
• Advocacy Campaign Feb. April 02
• SPARC EUROPE
• SHERPA
• International Scholarly Communication Alliance
  (ISCA)

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curl Consortium of University Research
Libraries Research Libraries of the British
Isles in co-operation

• Current Activities (16)
• Scholarly Communications (3)
• Advocacy Campaign
• 14 CURL institutions took part
• Events included sessions on SPARC
• 526 people attended
• 225 were academics 18 university senior managers
• Academics concerned with possible loss of peer
  review with OAIs
• Senior managers particularly concerned with IPR
  issue

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curl Consortium of University Research
Libraries Research Libraries of the British
Isles in co-operation

• Current Activities (17)
• Scholarly Communications (4)
• SPARC
• http//www.arl.org/sparc
• Director of SPARC Europe to be soon appointed
  (based in Oxford?)
• Aim to encourage the setting-up of alternative
  titles to undermine the monopoly of large journal
  publishers
• Need for campaign to mobilise European research
  libraries and academics
• SPARC usually welcome, but with degree of
  scepticism

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curl Consortium of University Research
Libraries Research Libraries of the British
Isles in co-operation

• Current Activities (19)
• Scholarly Communications (6)
• SHERPA
• Just under 300,000 from JISC
• To create a corpus of research papers from 7
  research institutions by establishing e-print
  archives (OAI servers)
• To comply with the Open Archives Initiative (OAI)
  Metadata Harvesting Protocol
• Using eprints.org software

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curl Consortium of University Research
Libraries Research Libraries of the British
Isles in co-operation

• Current Activities (20)
• Scholarly Communications (7)
• International Scholarly Communications Alliance
  (ISCA)
• http//www.curl.ac.uk/about/latest.html
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