Will you be bringing cakes in?
> That won't happen anyway, since I'm moving to UKOLN from mid
> September.
> Cheers,
>
>
> Talat
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Les Carr [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 26 June 2008 18:53
> To: Talat Chaudhri [tac]
> Cc: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: It's Keystrokes All the Way Down
>
>
> On 26 Jun 2008, at 13:01, Talat Chaudhri [tac] wrote:
>
> > Quite simply because *in practice* we have to *negotiate* these
> > mandates
> > with representatives of the academics who will be doing the
> deposits.
> It puts the library in an impossible position if senior managers
> expect them to *enforce* their mandates. The role of the library
> should be to facilitate and enable researchers to comply with
> mandates, but not to take responsibility for compliance. That must
> stay with the policy makers themselves.
>
> > In order to convince them to put a mandate in place, they want
> > answers to
> > all of the issues that surround working practices, incentives,
> > copyright
> > and so on that have been rightly brought up today.
> ...for which the senior management must take responsibility.
> There are a number of academics in our school who deposit **despite
> their misgivings** because the Chair of Research Committee has told
> them that they have to. I wasn't asked to do that as repository
> manager, and neither should you!
> --
> Les Carr
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