Chris,
This eLib dissemination debate rumbles on (but like you, most comments I'm
getting are verbal or email - wish more people would post ideas to the
list).
The email comment below is representative of the feedback I have been
getting. Basically, workshops that cover *all* areas of the programme at
the same time, such as:
* a few subject gateways
* play with a document delivery system
* explore an electronic journal or two
* do a sample, scaled down, training package
* use a grey literature/pre-print archive
* explore some digitised material
...would be very useful, as:
* people see the electronic library more as a whole, and less as just a
few parts in isolation
* strategic influencers (fund holders, librarians, computer centre people,
subject librarians) may be more swayed by a holistic demonstration, rather
than just having a day of projects in the same area (as someone said,
"when you've heard one project in the same programme area, you've heard
them all, only with different acronyms").
To use a cliche, eLib as a whole is probably (hopefully?) greater than
the sum of its parts. Feel very strongly, especially with the feedback,
that something like this (an across the entire programme) needs to be
done; it would be seen as drawing the strings of the whole programme
together (and it would be interesting to see how eLib looked when you
fitted various parts together in one bundle)(or clump :-)
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Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 10:37:09 -0800
From: Marie-Laure Bouchet <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Elib Dissemination
John
re your message to lis-elib re dissemination of results etc from Elib
projects.
I agree with the 'Where's the Beef?' sentiment and would attend a
session where several Elib projects covered different aspects of their
work in turn, as you suggest.
> This way, people might gain a more holistic view of the Electronic Library
> (instead of just being aware of one component, or view of it, in
> isolation).
I agree with this too and would add that in terms of being away from the
office for a day, I would be much more tempted to attend a session
where I got a lot of different info rather than spending a day looking
at one particular project, which I probably know something about
already.
i.e. your holistic day would be more "information rich"
Also in terms of considering what would be suitable for take up in my
own library in the future, a holistic day would be useful.
best regards
Marie-Laure Bouchet
LIS
Nottingham Trent University
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