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Library Projects

ABTAPL
Association of British Theological and Philosophical Libraries. The list will be used as a forum for professional exchange and development in the fields of theological and philosophical librarianship.

AHDS-DISCUSS
AHDS-discuss is an open list for projects involved in digitisation. It helps members locate projects working with practices and standards similar to their own; identify existing tools, software that can be shared between projects; get feedback in hardware and software used in data capture; provide advice on getting round particular problems

ANCIL
This list is based on the Arcadia Project funded by Cambridge University Library to develop a New Curriculum for Information Literacy. The list will be used to keep people in touch with the project and any disemination activities.

ARCMUSLEADERS
This is a group of senior managers in archives and museums across the UK who all undertook the same residential course together and would like to share a mailbase to keep in touch and continue to share ideas and offer support and mentoring to each other.

ARLIS-LINK
This is the list of ARLIS/UK & Ireland: the Art Libraries Society. Open to all those concerned with the librarianship of the visual arts, including architecture and design. Membership includes librarians, publishers and archivists. The Society became an educational charity in 1995.

ASLIBLOBBY
A list to support identification of issues upon which the Association for Information Management (ASLIB) should lobby, and how that lobbying should be rolled out.

AUTJOURNAL
A place to discuss and also to contribute to the establishment of a new academic journal empowering hitherto little recognised voices from the autistic community and targeting the disability studies and autism research and education communities.

BISA
This list is used to facilitate development of a network of Sound Archives within the British Isles, and to discuss matters of common professional interest.

BL-WAFSS
Infomation exchange re web archiving between institutions sharing infrastructure

BTC
A thematic catalogue of Benjamin Britten's complete works is currently being preparedat the Britten-Pears Library,Aldeburgh in collaboration with the University of East Anglia. This list will provide news of the projects progress and findings.

CADWYN

CADWYNYCANOLBARTH-SG
A list for the steering group of Cadwyn Y Canolbarth

CAIRO-PS
List for the core project team in the JISC-funded CAIRO project accross three institutions.

CASS-COG
This list is used to discuss operational issues relating to the establishment of the Collaborative Academic Store for Scotland, involving UK HE and the NLS.

CHILDREN-LITERATURE-UK
The UK list for academic discussion of all aspects of children's literature.

COFHE-SCOTLAND
News and discussion list to support members of The Library Association's Colleges of Further and Higher Education (CoFHE) Group in Scotland. Details on professional development training, networking, social events and awareness-raising of wider professional issues. Maintained by the Scottish Committee.

COPAC
The Copac list keeps you up-to-date with the latest news about the Copac nationally accessible library catalogue. Copac gives free access to the merged catalogues of major Academic & Special Libraries in the UK and Ireland, plus the UK National Libraries, including the British Library.

COSI
A closed list for users of the Customers of SirsiDynix International (EMEA) library management systems, primarily those based in the UK and the rest of Europe.

D2D
The list is for discussion between members of the project team for the Discovery to Delivery JISC funded project.

DC-IDENTIFIERS
A Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) forum to discuss identifiers

DC-KM
A forum to support the work of the Dublin Core Knowledge Management Community

DC-SCHOLAR
A forum to discuss the use of Dublin Core to describe scholarly communications

DIGITISATION-STRATEGY
This list is for use by academic, technical and curatorial staff, managers and librarians involved in developing digitisation strategies for their organisations. It is administered by staff at The John Rylands University Library, The University of Manchester.

DIGITISATION-SURVEY
This list will be used specifically in the implementation of theme 4 of our strategic plan, 2008-2011, regarding the coordination and funding of digitisation activity. Sublist of RLUK-ALL

DLNET
This list is to share ideas and best practice in using digital technology to support learning in museums, libraries, archives, galleries etc

DSPACE
A list to facilitate discussion between members of the DSpace UK User group. DSpace is a repository software package adopted by more than a dozen UK HE institutions to support their Institutional Repository.

E-BOOK-BIBACCESS
The list is to support discussion of issues associated bibliographic access and legal deposit of e-books.

EBOOKCONTACT
This list is used to communicate with librarians, institutional repository managers, researchers, research staff and other interested members on current projects being run by JISC Collections. Currently this includes OAPEN-UK.

ERIS
This list is intended to provide a forum for discussion among the project partners concerning ERIS (Enhancing Repository Inrastructure in Scotland) project

EVIDENCE-BASED-LIBRARIES
To promote the transfer and development of evidence based practice to librarianship and information science. It will discuss issues such as systematic reviews, critical appraisal and rigorous research designs in librarianship, principally but not exclusively, in health information work.

FIL
The Forum for Interlending mailing list is a discussion list for members of the Forum for Interlending and is dedicated to all aspects of interlending and document supply.

JAFER-DEV
The Jafer-dev mailing list is used for the discussion and distribution of JAFER technical issues.

JAFER-NEWS
Java Access For Electronic Resources (JAFER) news and announcements

JAFER-USER
The jafer-user mailing list is used as a general discussion forum for JAFER members.

KBPLUS
Mailing list for the project Shared UK Academic Knowledge Base

KULTUR
This list was used by those involved in the Kultur project, however from 1st October 2009 the Kultur partners have been expanding into a Kultur II Group consisting of specialist creative arts institutions, departments within larger multidisciplinary institutions, and researchers in the UK. The group welcomes repository managers, technical staff, academics, researchers, and research office staff. Kultur ran from 31 March 2007 - 31 March 2009 and was funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), under the Start-Up and Enhancement strand of its Repositories and Preservation programme. http://kultur.eprints.org/ Future projects and activities of the Kultur II Group are available here: http://www.vads.ac.uk/kultur2group/projects/index.html

LAC
This list is to be used to share information and good practice in working with looked-after children and young people, following on from a project supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

LIB-RFID-UK
A discussion list for UK education, learning and research related organisations, who have implemented, or are thinking of implementing, RFID technology in their Libraries. Members from other sectors are also welcome.

LIB-STATS
Welcome to Lib-Stats. The list hopes to foster a greater understanding of usage statistics generated from electronic services such as databases, e-journals and e-books.

LIBER-ALL
Superlist for LIBER members

LIBER-NEWS
This list is used for informing about LIBER activities and services.

LIBQUAL-UK
The UK LibQUAL+ discussion group is open to all LibQUAL+ users within the UK and Europe.

LIBRARY-DESIGN
List for library staff from FE, HE and other sectors interested in library planning & design.

LIBRARY-INDUCTION
The group will share resources and ideas concerning the innovative use of technology to aid the induction experience for learners. The group is mainly based around South East Colleges at present but is open to anyone in the UK FE and HE sectors.

LIS-ACCESS-CYMRU
This is a discussion list for cross-sectoral library access and borrowing schemes in Wales.

LIS-CILIP-ACLIP
For library and information staff working towards CILIP Certification status (i.e. ACLIP) to discuss professional issues, and issues of concern to the Certification process.

LIS-COLLMAN
A list for Scottish HEIs to share information on decisions made on material in their print collections.

LIS-DIRSERVICES
This list is used by the M25 Consortium's Director Services Task & Finish Group in the administration of the tasks within the group.

LIS-ELIB
The lis-elib list is primarily for discussion on the JISC Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib) and its projects. It also carries more general discussion of the changing IT environment in which libraries operate and requests for help and advice on specific topics related to eLib Programme interests

LIS-ELIB-TECH
This list will be used for discussion of technical issues relating to the eLib projects. THIS LIST IS NOW CLOSED.

LIS-EUROPEAN-PROGRAMMES
A forum for sharing information on all aspects of European programmes, projects and funding opportunities of interest to the UK library and information sector.

LIS-IMPACT
This list is to facilitate networking between libraries interested in measuring their impact.

LIS-M25SDO
A list of all those responsible for staff training in the member institutions of the M25 Consortium of HE Libraries.

LIS-POLISH
Discussion list for Polish and East European librarians in the UK and librarians responsible for Eastern European languages stock, to exchange information about book #suppliers and events.

LIS-READINGROOMUSAGEWG
A list for members of a BL/HE Reading Room Usage Working Group which is looking at reading room use in London.

M-LIBRARIES
This is the mailing list for the projects that make up the Mobile Infrastructure for Libraries programme.

MASS-DIGITIZATION
This list is for scholars and archivists, etc, interested in the mass digitization of original textual materials, particularly digital photography of medieval manuscripts.

MEDIALIB
Medialibs list is a discussion forum for Media Librarians and Information Professionals who have a responsibility for media studies, media production, broadcasting. Keywords: Media; Librarians; Higher Education;

MUSEUMS-LICENSING-GROUP
Information and discussion list for the JISC Collections Museums Licensing Association Pilot Project

NETWORKEBULLETIN
Ebulletin from "The Network - tackling social exclusion", incorporating the WTYL Digest

NETWORKNEWSLETTER
Distribution of newsletter for "The Network - tackling social exclusion"

PRESERVE-DR
The list serves cross-programme collaboration between projects in two JISC programmes: Digital Repositories, and Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions.

RLUK-NPO-PROJECT
This is a list to support the work of the Research Libraries UK and National Preservation Office project on preservation training

SCAIPR
The SCA (Strategic Content Alliance ) Intellectual Property Rights email list will be for discussing updates on events and news, promoting discussion on IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) issues and creating a community of practice in this area.

SCANEWSLETTER
Bi-monthly list for dissemination of SCA Newsletter. Featuring updates on the work of the SCA, an alliance between JISC, the BBC, the British Library, Becta, Museums, Libraries and Archives, the National e-Science Centre and the NHS working to produce a UK e-Content Framework in Spring 2009.

SIBMAS
This list is used by members of SIBMAS to exchange news and views on the care and documentation of performing arts collections

SUPPORTIVE-AND-PALLIATIVE-CARE-EVIDENCE
A forum for those involved in improving access to the best available evidence in supportive and palliative care. Users include academics, researchers, managers, health and social care practitioners in hospitals, hospices, specialist palliative care units and elsewhere in the voluntary, NHS, university and private sectors, plus administrative, library and IT professionals and others. A broad-based community of practice of individuals and groups engaged in online information provision and use in this field, both elsewhere in the UK and internationally.

TRAVELLERS
This list is used to disseminate information and share good practice amongst libraries, archives, museums and others working with Travellers.

UK-ZUG
A list for discussing issues related to the use of Z39.50 products, toolkits etc to build services. It will encompass technical and strategic issues.

YULIS-DIRECTORS
List of the Chief Librarians in Yorkshire Universities

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