Dear Charlie



Here at JISC Collections we are running a project called e-books for FE. We have received funding from the Learning Skills Council to purchase a Core Collection of e_books that will be made freely available to all FE colleges in the UK. We are also going to launch 'JISC Collections e-select - a framework agreement that will allow FE colleges to purchase additional e-books which they can add to the freely available Core Collection. 



The project is being managed by Anna Vernon in our team.



The Core Collection will launch in a month or so, so by April we will have good experience of colleges using the e-books.



The project has already taught us a lot and the various issues have included procurement of e-books, compliance of the platforms with WC3 standards, selection of e-books, integration with VLE's, getting the MARC records, etc, etc. Anna could speak to this. We also have a very good FE librarian on the Sterring Committee for the project, who may be able to give the view 'from the coal face'.



Another project that may be of interest is the Usage Statistics Portal demonstrator we are building. This is in collaboration with MIMAS (Ross MacIntyre) and Evidence Base) Pete Dalton and Angela Conyers). The demonstrator project has highlighted a number of issues - COUNTER complain stats not in a consistent format and the need for publishers to comply with SUSHI. That project team could tell a good story!



Any way, I hope those ideas are useful, please let me know if you would like me to work them up.



Kind regards

Lorraine Estelle



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Subject: [LIS-E-RESOURCES] UKSG Annual Conference 2010 - call for topics



Dear all,



As you may know, the UKSG organises an annual conference in April of  

each year. For the 2009 conference, we invited suggestions for topics  

and speakers for the first time, and received some great suggestions  

as a result - many of which made it into the final programme.  

Therefore, we are now inviting you to suggest topics and speakers for  

the 2010 conference, which will be held in Edinburgh, UK from 12-14  

April 2010.



The conference is attended by librarians, publishers and  

intermediaries in the scholarly communication supply chain, and  

addresses standards, processes, technologies and initiatives relating  

to our community. For full details of our international audience, and  

feedback from previous conferences, please visit www.uksg.org



Suggestions should be in the format of a brief synopsis and ideas for  

speakers to talk on that topic. You may propose others as speakers and  

we will contact them should the topic be picked up by our planning  

committee. We would particularly welcome submissions from those in the  

FE/Corporate/Government or NGO library community, as well as those  

involved in other initiatives of interest to the UKSG community (www.uksg.org/about) 

. Suggestions may be for plenary sessions or for the smaller breakout  

sessions.



All speakers receive travel expenses and acommodation in addition to a  

free delegate place.



You can review previous annual conference presentations at www.uksg.org/events/annualconference



If I can provide any further information or assistance, please do not  

hesitate to contact me.



Please send your suggestions / proposals (not the final presentation)  

to [log in to unmask] by 11th June 2009.



All best wishes,



Charlie Rapple.



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