++ Scottish Visual Arts Group ++ Hi all, I am attending the ARLIS NCC (National Co-ordination Committee) meeting on behalf of SVAG this Wednesday 3rd June (and hopping it straight back up to Dundee after :). I just wanted to circulate minutes for the last 2 meetings for your information - next set to follow in my next email. I will base my report to the NCC meeting on our planned agenda for Thursday's SVAG meeting. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any comments/questions, and if you need me on either Wednesday or Thursday pre-SVAG meeting you can contact me on my mobile # 07743 942749. Cheers, Paula --- ARLIS/UK & IRELAND. Committee for National Co-ordination of Art Library Resources Minutes of meeting held 19th November 2008 Present: Stephen Bury (chair); Pat Christie; Doug Dodds; Irena Murray; David Sharp (minutes); 1. Apologies: Paula Cuccurullo, Kate Sloss 2. Minutes of 4th June Accepted 3. Matters arising SB still to contact Louise Tucker [6] Chairs actions yet to go forward to Council due to timing of meeting. [7] DACS: nothing happening - unclear whether existing agreement rolls on or not. 4. Forward Plan Draft Annual Report tabled, progress checked and some material carried over. Action plan 2008 and 2009 tabled and discussed. Collaborative storage; Web archiving BL/V&A had met; NPO needs to await repositioning. Responses to Gowers + Green papers SB to circulate. Agreed SB to revise and circulate Annual report - some minor corrections agreed and agreed to clarify where necessary the activity of certain projects. 2009 RLUK - Doug Dodd UKRR - Watching brief - knock-on will be HEI's giving digital material also concern - definition of "complete copy". By 2010 BL will have legal deposit for free UK websites. Suggest sites to be archived to SB or Alison Hill. Resource discovery: monitor developments in Art Libraries Net & Kultur & Web archiving. SB will re-word. 5. LACA Update 30th October meeting. [response to green paper circulated subsequently]. 21 recommendations for exclusions all have no standing in UK law, but little prospect of short-term action. Strategic Advisory Board Intellectual Property - has some monies and will look at advising on restrictions in licence agreements. European policy. Green paper (from commission separate from European Parliament which doesn't recognise it) so 2 variant activities in prospect. Sound recording issue had been addressed. Orphan Works - still subject to "due diligence" - see Europa website. US: Google and Authors Guild have come to "out of court" settlement. Rights agency to emerge cMay 2009. European publishers excluded from agreement. Public Libraries pursued for performance licences & licence to hold material. [consultation papers to follow-action SB] 6. KULTUR Institutional Repository: The interface has been designed to be visually stimulating, and feedback from colleagues thus far has been very positive about this. Research outputs continue to be added to the Demonstrator site (currently 66 entries for University for the Creative Arts; 51 for University of Southampton and 186 for University of the Arts London) and UAL is anticipating putting its RAE materials on in due course The Demonstrator site will split into the individual Institutional Repositories in January 2009 The Project ends in March 2009 - work has just started on planning an official launch event Discussions will also take place soon on how to engage with other institutions that have expressed an interest in this Project and on other post-project opportunities 7. Local and Regional Groups Nil to report at meeting. Submitted subsequently, as follows: SVAG - Scottish Visual Arts Group report given by Paula Cuccurullo, SVAG reporting secretary Since my last meeting attendance in June, SVAG held a meeting at the University of Glasgow on 5 June and the Dean Gallery (National Galleries of Scotland) on 27 November. We hope to hold our next meeting near the beginning of June at Dundee University. The group unanimously elected Kerry Watson (Dean Gallery, National Galleries of Scotland) as our new convenor, and thanked Jane Furness (Edinburgh College of Art) for her service as convenor. Issues discussed included: member library reports; the UCABLIS miniclump (CAIRNS), and institutions such as NMS/NGS that have been delayed in joining; visual arts resources available to institutions such as ARTstor; comparisons of e-book providers; strategic collecting of art books in Scottish institutions and proposals on joint exhibitions of such; and the imminent relaunch of the SVAG website/blog, designed by Duncan Chappell at Glasgow School of Art (we will pass along the URL of the blog site when this is launched officially). Please contact me at [log in to unmask] for any further information about SVAG. 8. Reports from member institutions UAL: PC circulated copies of the new LLR Medium Term Strategy and reported that UAL is about to start work on a new University Medium Term Strategy Work is progressing on a new LLR Collection Development Policy and on a new rinted and electronic guide to archives and special collections across the University The BL Business & IP Centre will be contributing to the University Learning and Teaching Day in January 200. The theme of this day is 'Making it work: employability for life' The University will be contributing to the Kubrick Season at the BFI in February 2009 as this will feature items from the Stanley Kubrick Archives plus the University will be involved in a special Study Day. PC circulated a copy of RIN's 'Ensuring a bright future for research libraries' that was launched at an event for vice-chancellors and senior institutional managers on 18 November. See www.rin.ac.uk/bright-futues-libraries. PC attended this event with the University's Pro-Rector for Research & Enterprise BFI HE Partnership proposal still being developed - has to meet HEFC requirements for March meeting. Covers extended opening, digital delivery of moving image, creation of research centre. Gabriele Popp now in post and might represent BFI at NCC if David not available; Film Centre business case to DCMS for 15th December decision. NAL Research libraries group Public report available 15th December, 20th Century gallery opens (adjacent to library) Internal review at request of Directorate, light touch, feedback awaited. RIBA Meeting of Art Libraries net - federal searching of c 50 libraries To look at streaming/brings on-line image database together - www.arbbing.net Array of different activities. Corbusies exhibition in Lutyens crypt in Liverpool; Barbican 2009. Palladio drawings Vicenza - New York Web hub launch End of retro-conversions awaited (end of spring) Dr Kirk Helfing joined as Curator and archivist re policy and sustained project on "born digital" work. Digital image project update. 30k images, which will increasingly be hooked into HE project work. Outside storage relocating to Battersea. New research WIKI, (which is a learning process) about managing material that is ongoing currently. 175th RIBA anniversary in 2009. Partner projects being worked up. (incs BFI) BL Additional storage building almost complete (5th December handover; 5th January content moves). Possible 2nd building few newspapers. Project Gateway: land has been given for Digital Research Centre. Some interest from Research Councils. Funded by Easter? Model effect of exchange rate on acquisition budget - shortfall to be found inside acquisition budget Launch SCRAN/BL/BBC/Nat.Maritime Mus. of "Europeana" - European digital library - in Brussels Integrated Catalogue version now experimental mode (PRIMO) Jill Finney departing in February 2009 to become Head of Engagement at Care Commission 83k raised for Marinetti Tin Book for the collection Talk on censorship for CILIP led to SB being asked to join "Task & Finish Group: policing Library users" Money for DVD access in Reading Room. 9. AOB nil Dates for next year to follow when Council's agreed. ------- Paula Cuccurullo Reporting Secretary, Scottish Visual Arts Group (SVAG) tel (0131) 651 1432 / fax (0131) 650 3308 [log in to unmask] / http://scurl.ac.uk/about/svag.html -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. -------- Scottish Visual Arts Group To subscribe, send the following message to [log in to unmask] join svag Yourfirstname Yourlastname To unsubscribe, send the following message to [log in to unmask] leave svag To find out who else is on the list, send the following message to [log in to unmask] review svag List web page: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/svag.html Problems? Contact [log in to unmask] --------