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, Whitelaw, A. and Joy, G.: and Overview document (PDF format) and the Final Report (PDF format).
Note this report is also available from Opus, the University of Bath repository: [About], [PDF] and [MS Word]
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.' (uploaded 02 August 2001).

Beyond eLib: Lessons from Phase 3 of the Electronic Libraries Programme
A paper by Stephen Pinfield which is available in three formats [HTML] - [PDF] - [MS Word]. Note this report is also available from Opus, the University of Bath institutional repository: [About], [PDF] and [MS Word].
This paper attempts to summarise some of the main 'lessons' which have emerged from Phase 3 of the JISC-funded Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib). It is primarily a view from the inside of eLib. It incorporates contributions from eLib3 project managers and other stakeholders. It is not a formal evaluation of the programme; this will be done in Spring 2001. Rather it is an attempt to synthesise some of the key issues which are important to those involved in the 'hybrid library', 'clumps', and 'projects to services' strands of eLib3.

Summative Evaluation of Phases 1 and 2 of the eLib Initiative: an Overview document, and the Final Report (PDF format) - University of Bath repository (Final Report): [About] - [PDF].
'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.'

Synthesis of eLib Annual Reports: 1997
Local copy: [PDF] - University of Bath repository: [About.

Synthesis of eLib Annual Reports: 1998
Local copy: [PDF] - University of Bath repository: [About.

After eLib and Towards the Hybrid Library 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 also wrote an overview of the history and direction of the UK eLib Programme for the July/August 1998 issue of the D-lib magazine: Towards the Hybrid Library.

Report Guidelines

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)
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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/

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; 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]

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Other Reports

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. [uploaded 04 April 2000]
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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. (uploaded November 11 1998)
[PDF format]. Note this report has been deposited in Opus, the University of Bath institutional repository (8 May 2013).

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. (uploaded 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 (uploaded August 1996).
[HTML] [MS Word] Note this report is also available from Opus, the University of Bath institutional repository: [About] and [PDF].

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.
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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).
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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).
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Joint Funding Councils' Library Review: Report of the Group on a National/Regional Strategy for Library Provision for Researchers (referred to as 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).
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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

the remit of the Joint Funding Council's Libraries Review Group was to investigate the future national needs for the development of library and information resources including operational and study space requirements for teaching and research in higher education institutions and to identify ways to meet those needs (1993).
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