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Apologies for absence
David Ball, Pauline Blagden, Sally Bradley, Jim Jackson, Alan Poulter, Jill Terrell |
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Minutes of the meeting on 21 February 2006
Were accepted as an accurate record |
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Matters arising:
World Summit – SS agreed to invite Debbie Shorley to do a Daphne Clarke seminar on WSIS in May 2007
David Baume talk. SS reported that the event had to be postponed due to lack of interest. It was agreed to try and re-schedule at some point in the future, most probably during 2008. SS agreed to organise.
Joint course with HLG
It was agreed that this should go ahead at some point in the 2006-07 academic year. |
SS
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PB, JY |
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Report from Chair
It was reported that all the Committee posts had been filled bar Minute Secretary. SS volunteered to undertake this. |
SS |
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Report from the Group Councillor
JED presented a Report on two meetings of CILIP Council (5.5.06 and 28.6.06). The main issues highlighted in his commentary on the document were:
CILIP’s Governance Review
Budgetary issues
Groups review
The full report is available for inspection. |
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Report from the Treasurer
JE presented her report for the financial year Jan-December 2005. The main points were:
A surplus of £1700 was accrued
Institutional subs were up on the previous period
Personal subs were down on the previous period
LIRG is in the black to the tune of £20,000.
It was agreed that the Group needed to commit funds against activities to protect the reserve in the interests of Group members. Biddy Fisher to continue discussions with Nigel McCartney (CILIP Hon. Teasurer)
The accounts had not yet been audited but this was due to occur in the near future
The full report is available for inspection. The Chair thanked JE for her sterling contribution to the post of treasurer, which was, forthwith, being taken over by Angela Conyers. |
JE
AC |
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Report from the LIR Editorial Board
A Report was presented by ST.
The most outstanding issue was a forthcoming October meeting on the future of LIR. It was decided by the editorial board that a web editor is needed to enhance the online provision of the journal. The group to meet will comprise JE, AP, ST, plus one other. The Chair asked to be kept informed of developments. JE agreed to sound out colleagues at Brighton for advice on matters technical.
Given a tight fiscal climate, it was noted by BF that whilst it might be possible to provide an honorarium fee to the LIR editor, as well as a one-off fee to a web design expert to facilitate the technical transition to an e-journal, it was most likely that a subscription would have to be levied to ensure the viability of the journal.
The full report is available for inspection. |
AP, JE,
ST, |
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Report on Awards and Prizes
JY noted that:
- there was a need to create a schedule for the LIRG awards process. JY agreed to consider this.
- there was a need to develop guidelines for the adjudicators of prizes
- there was a need to re-draft guidelines for the Elsevier award. It was desirable to get submissions which brought together academic and practitioner research. JE agreed to draft this and liaise with JY
- JY agreed to liaise with Tony Mc Sean about securing an increase in the Elsevier prize. |
JY
JE
JY |
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Events
BF reported that the Dundee seminar on why LIS practitioners need to get involved in the research process went ahead and was successful. It was run by AP and BF. JED, JE and JY agreed to consider running another event
BF to forward the programme to JY. |
JED, JE,
JY
BF |
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Web-site
It was noted that Alan Cooper (AC) can create new web pages for LIRG: CILIP maintains the structure of the sight. AC reported that CILIP had investigated how the website might be made more reliable (it malfunctioned in September 2005). Costings for this have been made but there is currently no money available to launch the work.
A brief discussion had occurred at CILIP Council on the matter. Whilst the site is well used by members, it was noted that this has now created high expectations around the quality of service provided. |
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CILIP’s Research Policy and Strategy
JED noted that he had raised at CILIP the possibility of inviting other groups to consider the research dimension in joint seminars etc. However, no interest has been forthcoming to date. BF noted that UC&R might be approached
JED reported that he had asked John Feather Chair of the ILM RAE Sub-Panel to speak at today’s AGM. This had not been possible to arrange. It was agreed that John might be invited to reflect on RAE2008 at some future point after the exercise has been conducted. He might be asked to reflect on the relevance of the exercise for the information practitioner community.
The issue of the Skills Audit was raised. It was agreed to wait for feedback from AP before taking the matter forward.
There was some discussion about the elements of CILIP Research policy which LIRG can prosecute. JED noted that because of the tight fiscal climate it would be prudent to enlist the enthusiasm and cooperation of other groups. JED agreed to examine the key themes in education and policy development. He noted that research had to become endemic in people’s perspective – this was happening much more slowly than originally envisaged though the Health group was a positive example. UC&R is another group with which an alliance might be forged. BF agreed to explore the possibility of presenting to it and to ask Pauline Blagden to do similar re. HLG. |
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Comment on Draft Corporate Plan
BF agreed to check the progress made with this with AP |
BF |
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Library Research Database
There was discussion about whether or not this should go ahead. ST suggested that the form would need to be modified. JE argued that, drawing on recent research which she had conducted, there was a need for the database but that it was difficult to get people to contribute to it. A cultural change was needed which might take a long time to come to fruition. It was agreed that a way forward might be ask people to fill in an appropriate form when they renewed their membership. They should also be invited to submit details of their research if papers are accepted for publicatin in LIR. It was agreed that it would be appropriate to talk to the new LIR editor. AC agreed to do this with AP. It was agreed that the abstract and contact details of each author submitting to the new webified LIR should be asked to provide an abstract of their article, as well as their contact details for the website. |
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SLG request for research guide
JE noted that this group wished LIRG to run an event of some kind for them which might entail training, materials or study. JE agreed to get back in touch with the group to determine its exact requirements.
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LIMES project
There was a brief discussion of this item. Since AP was not at the meeting, it was agreed to raise it at the next meeting to determine progress of AP’s liaison with the project to see if its resources might be made available to practitioners. |
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Discussion Items
BF noted that an event was to take place in London to honour the memory of Brian Perry. It would involve a retrospective review of information research, as well as a look to its possible future. BF noted that this year’s LIRG prize winners would be asked to contribute to the event. SS and JE agreed to be ‘reserve’ should some of the winners not be able to contribute to the event.
BF noted the resignation of Isobel Thompson and Jim Jackson. BF thanked them for their work and wished them all the best for the future. |
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LIS-CILIP
It was noted that CILIP had recently decided to wind this up. It was agreed that the matter would be discussed at the AGM |
BF |
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AOB
JE noted that it would be important to read the British Library’s Content Strategy Document. As comments were to be submitted byJuly21st it was agreed that the committee undertake this ina theirpersonal capacity.
Members were reminded that an expanses claim form was available on the LIRG website. Claims should be sent to the new Treasurer, AC. |
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Date of next meeting
The next meeting would be the autumn in London at a date to be confirmed. |
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