JISC Digitisation Programme

This session focused on library purchasing during a time of economic recession. The speakers came from various stakeholder backgrounds – librarians, publishers, and users (researchers).  Issues raised included how to deal with budget cuts, the rise of e-journals and what is preventing all readers from using them, the relationship between research and production, and the ways in which digitisation has revolutionised book publishing and the way that libraries run.

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Catherine’s presentation was designed to outline the JISC vision for a national content collection, reflect on the last ten years of the JISC Content work, talk about the achievements of the JISC mass Digitisation Programmes, and discuss the many challenges ahead.

Watch the speaker on video.

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Connect to Cotswold Water Park Wifi signal, When the home page loads click on the internet access. This will open the internet page. In the bottom Right hand side corner a log on prompt will appear. Please click on the drop down bar to show Lounge Internet – Password : lounge. This will connect you to the internet— Twitter away.

The event is full but you can still view and interact with the event. It was always our intention to amplify the event so that as many people could access the event and to a degree interact with the event via twitter and blog posts (tag#jdcc09) . We will be live streaming from http://www.jisc.ac.uk/jdcc09 at 11.30 BST.

Tomorrow marks the opening of the JISC Digital Content Conference, proving hugely popular the event was full within a couple of days of registration opening. The conference aims to discuss and decide the next steps that need to be taken to ensure the sustained integration of digital content into research and education and is one of the most important events of 2009. It will consider the issues facing the UK’s universities as they deal with creating, delivering, sustaining and using a whole range of digital content as well as looking into future opportunities and challenges. The following thematic strands will run throughout the conference: Managing Content; Content Development Strategies; Content In Education; User Engagement; Looking Into The Future. The full programme is available at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2009/06/digitalcontent.aspx

Registration is now open for the JISC Digital Content Conference, to be held on 30 June – 1 July at the Cotswold Water Park Four Pillars Hotel, South Cerney, Gloucestershire.

The conference, as previously announced on this blog, has been organised in the the context of the completion of Phase 2 of the JISC Digitisation Programme and aims to discuss and decide the next steps that need to be taken to ensure the sustained integration of digitised content into research and education.

It will consider the issues facing the UK’s universities as they deal with creating, delivering, sustaining and using a whole range of digital content as well as looking into future opportunities and challenges. The following thematic strands will run throughout the conference:

o Managing Content
o Content Development Strategies
o Content in Education
o User Engagement
o Looking Into The Future

The event will be of interest to all decision makers involved in the provision and delivery of digital content to the education sector in the UK and internationally, including:

o Senior Librarians in further and higher education
o The librarians of the future – the new generation of librarians
o Managers of electronic resources and digital content provision
o Policy makers in charge of digital content strategies
o Government body representatives and policy makers
o Teachers, lecturers and researchers with an interest in digital content

The conference is free for delegates, including meals and accommodation.

For more information about the conference, a provisional programme and to register, go to the conference web site.

The JISC Digital Content Conference will take place on 30th June – 1st July 2009 at the Cotswold Water Park Four Pillars Hotel.

Issues
In the context of the completion of Phase 2 of the JISC’s Digitisation Programme the conference will look at the issues facing the UK’s universities as they deal with creating, delivering, sustaining and using a whole range of digital content as well as looking into future opportunities and challenges.

The conference will gather key players from both the UK and beyond to debate, discuss and decide the next steps that need to be taken to ensure the sustained integration of digitised content into research and education.

Audience
The event will be of interest to all decision makers involved in the provision and delivery of digital content to the education sector in the UK and internationally, including:

o Senior Librarians in higher and further education
o Managers of electronic resources and digital content provision
o Policy makers in charge of digital content strategies
o Government representatives
o Funding bodies, nationally and internationally
o Teachers and researchers with an interest in digital content

Practicalities
The conference will be held over two days, starting at lunch time on 30 June and finishing in the afternoon on 1 July. Transport from and to the nearest train station (Kemble, 6 miles) will be provided.

The conference is free and accommodation and meals are all included; however, JISC are unable to pay for travel costs.

A registration form will be available soon on the conference web page.