http://librariesofthefuture.jiscinvolve.org Blog for the JISC Campaign Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:54:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en JISC has recently released preliminary results of one of the largest investigations ever undertaken into the usage of e-books by students. The results provide useful lessons for all of us and suggest that unlimited use models are the way to go. This data will help information providers and librarians alike ... http://librariesofthefuture.jiscinvolve.org/2009/04/14/jisc-report-gives-insight-into-e-book-usage/ A date for your diary: June 30th to July 1st 2009 JISC warmly invites delegates to attend its Digital Content Conference. In the context of the completion of Phase 2 of the JISC Digitisation Programme the conference will look at the issues facing the UK's colleges and universities as they deal ... http://librariesofthefuture.jiscinvolve.org/2009/04/08/jisc-digital-content-conference-2009/ Videos of the presentations at the recent Libraries of the Future debate held in Oxford last week are now live on the JISC libraries of the future web site <http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/campaigns/librariesofthefuture/debate.aspx>. This event has generated tremendous feedback and discussion and I hope that this continues. Other activities are planned to support ... http://librariesofthefuture.jiscinvolve.org/2009/04/06/video-from-the-oxford-debate-is-now-on-the-website/ Question Time - chaired by Professor Vincent Gillespie, JRR Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language, University of Oxford Q: How can students currently in LIS and i-school programmes ensure that they are positioning themselves to be librarians of the future? Peter Murray-Rust: You are the librarian of the future, ... http://librariesofthefuture.jiscinvolve.org/2009/04/02/libraries-of-the-future-session-3-plenary-question-and-answer/ Perspective: commercial sector - Santiago de la Mora (Google) Google's mission is to organise the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.  It sounds grandiose, but that is the underlying theme of our products.  We started with the internet because the content was already online. The big challenge is ... http://librariesofthefuture.jiscinvolve.org/2009/04/02/libraries-of-the-future-session-2/ After a ten-minute delay, Vincent Gillespie welcomed the fashionably late delegates to the afternoon's conference, What is the library of the future?  Not only are there attendees present at the Martin Wood Lecture Theatre in Oxford, but also in Second Life; and coverage of the day is available via this ... http://librariesofthefuture.jiscinvolve.org/2009/04/02/libraries-of-the-future-session-1/ We asked Les Watson an expert consultant to the JISC on Technology Enhanced Learning Environments to write about the library space of the future. He explains that responding to greater student diversity demands is one of the drivers behind new space developments in many of our HE Libraries however we ... http://librariesofthefuture.jiscinvolve.org/2009/04/02/solitary-silent-and-sombre-new-%e2%80%98old%e2%80%99-libraries-or-library-spaces-for-the-21st-century/ A new short video presentation about the work of the Strategic Content Alliance has just been released - and is attached below. This highlights the big vision for the alliance and emphasises the barriers that need to be overcome. Strategic Content Alliance Video http://librariesofthefuture.jiscinvolve.org/2009/04/01/new-short-video-presentation-about-the-work-of-the-strategic-content-alliance/ The Strategic Content Alliance The work of the JISC lead Strategic Content Alliance is of great relevance to the library of the future and I though it would be useful just to highlight their activity. With an ambitious mission form day one the programme which began in 2006 and is now ... http://librariesofthefuture.jiscinvolve.org/2009/03/31/the-strategic-content-alliance-and-libraries-of-the-future/ Information Literacy “Sans Frontieres” We asked Peter Godwin to write about information literacy (IL) a topic that will be discussed at the Libraries of the future Bodleian debate on April 2nd 2009 LOFT09. Peter highlights that ‘The disaggregation of information or the content being out of the container challenges us to ... http://librariesofthefuture.jiscinvolve.org/2009/03/27/29/