I had a brief dialogue with Chris R. re dissemination and Netskills' role.
Those of you with projects involved with information services might be
interested in what we do (if you don't make use of us already!).
>At 9:20 am 17/3/97, Mr C A Rusbridge wrote:
>>There has been abit of a thread on eLib dissemination on lis-elib
>>recently. It has struck me occasionally that Netskills might have a
>>potentially very useful role to play in some aspects of dissemination,
>>particularly Roadshows, Workshops etc. Comments?
>
>Chris: I'll tell you what we currently do, then answer your question!
>
>We currently act as *one* method of publicity and awareness for JISC and
>eLib Information Services. We do this as follows:
>
>o JISC: include a JISC Services leaflet in our delegate's pack
>
>o eLib: Note we asked Kelly and yourself whether there should
> be an eLib services leaflet like the JISC Services one. We
> received the response recently that it was too early for this.
>
>o JISC & eLib: we make available flyers from those services
> that have provided us with leaflets and which are relevant
> for that particular workshop
> - We have asked JASPER services for their leaflets and update
> stocks as required
> - we did the same for eLib and currently include some such as
> EEVL, SOSIG, OMNI etc We'd be happy to take more.
>
>o We include relevant JISC (CEI) and eLib services in our
> presentations and hands-on workshop exercises
>
>o We have explicit mention of a whole range of eLib and JISC
> Services in TONIC - the web based interactive tutorial which
> is in heavy use. It is particularly heavily used by Students
> at the start of the Autumn term.
>
>o we do "specials" - for example one of our trainers is talking about
> Electronic Journals at the JUGL conference in the summer
>
>
>So that's what we currently do. This is aimed mainly at "information services".
>
>We certainly have plenty of experience in running workshops, and have
>superb facilities here. We would be willing to discuss being involved in
>dissemination activities - what specifically did you have in mind. I should
>point out that we are pretty busy and therefore would prefer to undertake
>activities that are a natural extension of what we are doing.
>
>Would it help to copy part of this to lis-elib or lis-elib-managers?
>
>-- Jill
Note the address to send flyers to is:
Netskills
University Computing Service
University of Newcastle
Claremont Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
and enquiries about this can be sent to:
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-- Jill
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