Issues & Initiatives
December 18, 2000
The Library has underway a variety of initiatives that all fall under what can broadly be called an "information systems and technology" umbrella. Effective co-ordination of these initiatives is crucial.
Below is a list of some of the initiatives and issues underway or emerging. In the first meetings of the DLCC, the committee will review this list, modify it as appropriate and decide which issues to address first.
The committee will provide a place to focus discussion on issues such as:
- Portals, the "MyLibrary" concept, etc.
- Developments in the OCUL Digital Library area.
- Significant initiatives such as eReserves to determine how they fit into mid and longer term plans.
- The integration of VDX, Trellis, eJournals, ERL, etc. (JAKE, EnCompass, Zope, …)
- A structured data (web/database) approach to providing access to our resources. Discussion of the various proposals that have been developed to date.
- The opportunity presented by the campus Open Text initiative (e.g . Using Open Text’s LiveLink software to reinvent the StaffWeb as a collaborative knowledge management environment.)
- Discussion of such key documents as the Keystone statement and the LITA Top 10.
- The use of metadata for enhancing access to digital library resources (e.g Dublin Core, MARC21, Crosswalks)
- Information technology standards (e.g. XML, DOI, IMS).
- Issues that arise at UCIST. (e.g. the revision of the UCIST Directions statement; the UW Computing and Network Use statement.)
And then there's ...
- eBooks
- New "learning technologies" in the "LT3" context?
- Digitisation projects: should the UW Library be involved here?
- eTexts? Building on the Rockwell seminar we sponsored last summer?
August 2, 2005
