Other eLib Programme Papers and Reports
Other papers and reports of relevance to the programme can be found from this page, including the Follett Report, Anderson Report, eLib standards guidelines, and eLib Programme evaluation documents.
Evaluation of the eLib Programme
Summative Evaluation of Phase 3 of the eLib Initiative: an Overview document, and the Final Report. Available in PDF format.
The evaluation was carried out by ESYS limited, a consultancy company with experience of undertaking and evaluating technology applications programmes in a number of fields, particularly space and defence. This evaluation therefore takes an independent view of the programme from outside the HE library sector.' (mounted 02 August 2001)
- Beyond eLib: Lessons from Phase 3 of the Electronic Libraries Programme a paper by Stephen Pinfield. In three formats [HTML] [PDF] [Word]
Summative Evaluation of Phases 1 and 2 of the eLib Initiative: an Overview document, and the Final Report. Available in PDF format.
'The report examines the operation and management of the Programme, achievements in the Programme areas, overall impacts and value and finally makes recommendations for future activities based on the lessons learned. A summary document which cross-references the main report is also available. The evaluation was carried out by ESYS limited, a consultancy company with experience of undertaking and evaluating technology applications programmes in a number of fields, particularly space and defence. This evaluation therefore takes an independent view of the programme from outside the HE library sector.'
The Synthesis of eLib Annual Reports for 1998 and the Synthesis of eLib Annual Reports for 1997, are available in PDF format.
- A personal retrospective overview of the eLib Programme, 'After eLib' by Chris Rusbridge is available in issue 26 of Ariadne (December 2000/January 2001). Chris Rusbridge has also written an overview of the history and direction of the UK eLib Programme for the July/August 1998 issue of D-lib magazine, Towards the Hybrid Library
- eLib: Formats for Annual Reporting
- As innovative projects from which others are expecting to learn, it
is important that eLib projects provide information and knowledge that
will be speedily accessible to the wider community. This annual
reporting structure is one way of ensuring that the lessons emerging
from monitoring and evaluating the progress and success of the project
are recorded, systematised and disseminated.
eLib Final Report Template available in HTML and PDF format (mounted 11 October 2000).
eLib Phase III format for 2nd Year Project Annual Reporting
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eLib Phases I & II format for 3rd Year Project Annual Reporting (August 1999)
[HTML] [PDF]eLib Phases I & II format for final Project Reporting
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- Guidelines for eLib Project Evaluation (Tavistock) available at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/papers/tavistock/evaluation-guide/intro.html
- eLib standards guidelines
- This set of guidelines provide recommendations for the selection and use of standards in eLib projects. Use of suggested standards is strongly encouraged where relevant, and projects will be asked to justify alternative or competing choices to the Programme Director. It is intended that this document will be continually revised to reflect best practice and new developments (October 1998). [HTML]
- MA/HEM: A Methodology for Access/Holding Economic Modelling
- Final report by the Taskforce on Methodology for Access/Holdings
Economic Modelling (1996).
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- JISC/NPO Study: The Digital Culture: Maximising the Nation's Investment.
- A synthesis of JISC/NPO studies on the preservation of digital
materials. Available in PDF format. [mounted 04 April 2000]
[Adobe Acrobat PDF format]
- JISC/TLTP Copyright Guidelines
- These Guidelines were produced by the JISC/TLTP Copyright Working
Group on behalf of the Joint Information Systems Committee, and were
developed from those originally created for the TLTP. They are not to be
regarded as prescriptive, but should be used as pointers towards good
practice in the development of computer-based materials for higher
education. They apply only to the UK. (November 11 1998)
[Adobe Acrobat .PDF format]
- Facing the Legal Challenges of Providing Internet Access in HEIs
- A one day conference organised by The JISC with support from UKOLN
with the aim of providing a broad overview of the main legal issues
which might arise from the provision of Internet access in Further and
Higher Education establishments. Speakers were Professor Charles
Oppenheim, Mark Gould and Andrew Charlesworth. (October 1997)
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- Technologies to Support Authentication in Higher Education
- This report provides a short and limited study, commissioned by JISC,
of the technologies available to support authentication, reviews the
needs expressed by a set of people contacted for the study, and provides
the beginnings of a road-map on how a National system might be
established (August 1996).
[HTML] [Word 6] - Long Term Preservation of Electronic Materials: JISC/BL Workshop, November 1995
- The workshop was held shortly after the CPA/RLG Task Force in the US
issued a draft report on digital archiving . The contents of the CPA/RLG
draft acted as a touchstone for the workshop, shaping ideas and
prompting discussion (particularly on the applicability of its
recommendations in the UK). The workshop presentations and discussions
were written up and published in early 1996.
[HTML] [Word 2] - Retrospective Conversion Of Library Catalogues in Institutions of Higher Education in the United Kingdom
- This study of the justification for a national programme of
retrospective conversion of library catalogues in UK institutions of
higher education was commissioned by the Follett Implementation Group on
IT (FIGIT) and funded by the Higher Education Funding Councils (HEFCs)
through their Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). The study
resulted from a recommendation of the Libraries Review Group chaired by
Professor Sir Brian Follett and took place between October 1994 and
April 1995 (August 1995).
[HTML] [Word 2] - FIGIT Periodicals Digitisation Study
- This document is a report prepared for JISC by Marc Fresko. It
presents the findings of a study which investigated the existence of
projects to digitise backruns of selected periodicals, this in order to
avoid funding projects which otherwise inadvertently would duplicate
other digitisation activities (1995).
[HTML] - Joint Funding Councils' Library Review: Report of the Group on a National/Regional Strategy for Library Provision for Researchers (The Anderson Report)
- The Report of the Group on a National/ Regional Strategy for Library
Provision for Researchers, commissioned by the Follett Implementation
Group as part of the Joint Funding Councils Library Review (1995).
[HTML] - Joint Funding Council's Libraries Review Group: Report (The Follett Report)
- Taking into account:
- the planned expansion of higher education
- the current and potential impact of information technology on information provision
- the possibilities of greater cooperation and sharing of capital and recurrent resources
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