Dear Colleagues
Higher Education Storage, Access and Preservation Project
Update on Progress event POSTPONED
I regret to inform you that this event, originally scheduled for 23
October, has been postponed until late November or early December. We
are arranging a new date for the event and will announce this as soon as
possible.
The postponement is because information central to implementing Phase 1
of the collaborative storage initiative, which we had originally
expected to have by the end of September, will now not become available
until after 23 October.
As previously announced, the joint CURL-British-Library Collaborative
Storage Task Force submitted a proposal to the Higher Education Funding
Councils for funding to support Phase 1 of this initiative. This was in
response to strong support from the Funding Councils for the project and
an invitation to prepare a request for funding.
This process is not yet complete and the Task Force believes that it
would be more sensible to postpone the Update event until there is some
funding information available to support fully-informed discussion with
the wider community.
In the meantime information on the work of the Task Force, including the
list of institutional partners in Phase 1 and 'work in progress'
recommendations regarding governance of the initiative and minimum
number of copies, will be available through the Collaborative Storage
pages on the CURL Web site at
http://www.curl.ac.uk/projects/CollaborativeStorage/Home.htm
Members of the Task Force (listed on the Web site) will be happy to
respond to any queries not addressed through the FAQ and other
information on the Web site.
We will publicise the new date for the event as soon as it is finalised.
Robin
Robin Green ([log in to unmask])
Executive Director, CURL
'The Old Gymnasium', University of Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK B15 2TT
Tel. +44 (0)121 415 8106; Fax. ....8109; Mob. 07941 906222
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