At 04:40 PM 11/15/01 -0000, Mike Maguire wrote:
Colleagues,
You may like to read the article at
http://www.resource.gov.uk/news/feature_article.asp?articleid=98
on the newly-launched Resource website [don't forget to refresh the page if
you need to] which will, offer a way forward on many of these issues. We
look forward to working ever more closely with you all in the coming months.
Keep in touch,
Susi
>Re-birth of Earl? - often the difference between ideal and real is substance
>& capacity. The PN Team must have their hands full at present and probably
>haven't the capacity to take on the aspects of Earl's original roles we're
>discussing.
>
>If PN Team should have the role ... and are prepared to accept it ... how to
>achieve the capacity ... and perhaps, the funding for it?
>
>Setting aside the notion that more "central government sourced funding could
>be found for this (but very much not discounting or dismissing it!), if
>Earl's capacity was underpinned by direct contributions from library service
>subscriptions, is that a model for funding additional like capacity within
>the PN Team ... or would the accountability that might have to go with this
>create unnacceptable tensions. Or could something "Earl-like" be set up
>within the PN Team to accomodate that accountability - and would library
>services get their cheque books out to fund it?
>
>Mike Maguire
>Group Librarian S & E Devon
>Devon Lifelong Learning
>01392 384223
>mailto:[log in to unmask]
>http://www.devon.gov.uk/library/
>Unless otherwise stated the views expressed are
>personal and not necessarily those of Devon County Council
>
>
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Frances Hendrix [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>> Sent: 15 November 2001 10:38
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: How to guides for computers
>>
>> Philip is, in my opinion absolutely right in the need for this coordinated
>> approach, and that the People's Network Team are the appropriate body now
>> that Earl, alas, is no longer running. It would have been an ideal role
>> for
>> Earl to perform, and one that Earl recognized was missing and would have
>> like to have taken up.
>> If the PN isn't going to take it on. perhaps it is time for the rebirth of
>> Earl?
>> Frances
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Philip Wark" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 9:22 AM
>> Subject: How to guides for computers
>>
>>
>> > Penny Goddard wrote:I would like to take up Chris Goddard's comment re
>> *re-
>> > inventing the wheel* in relation to implementing the PN. So far I have
>> > heard from many people who state that they do not want to waste time and
>> > energy doing what others have already done, but are in the *catch 22*
>> > situation of not knowing what has been done elsewhere. Not sure if the
>> *not
>> > invented here* syndrome prevails -
>> > I think most staff are keen to adopt the work of others given the
>> pressures
>> > they currently operate under? Perhaps there is a need for central
>> > (national??) co-ordination of day-to-day service implementation issues
>> as
>> > well as at policy/best practice level. I know regional collaboration is
>> > going on re union catalogues and on specific projects, but is it in
>> relation
>> > to identifying area of commonality, e.g. in access to email/general
>> > guidance to users.
>> >
>> > These are just my observations - it would be useful to hear others
>> views
>> > (and their suggestions to improve the situation) -taking account of the
>> > regional/national agendas and disparities between different authorities
>> etc
>> > etc.
>> > Penny Garrod
>> >
>> > Interesting thoughts. EARL or a similar organisation taking a national
>> > (UK!) perspective is essential post local government re-organisation and
>> > the mess perpetrated by the creation of lots of small authorities with
>> > insufficient resources to provide decent services. I've long thought
>> there
>> > is a role for a national organisation to co-ordinate marketing,
>> promotion
>> > and shouting about libraries - something similar to the FSA for
>> independent
>> > financial advisers. Naively I thought this role should be taken on
>> board
>> > by the LA, but obviously they are not just concerned about public
>> > libraries. To be fair the LA does co-ordinate national events etc for
>> > public libraries but probably doesn't see its role as promoting
>> libraries
>> > but librarianship. I would like to see a national advertising campaign
>> on
>> > TV, newspapers radio etc There should also be a national register of
>> good
>> > practice where standards - no I don't mean performance indicators DCMS
>> et
>> > al, are identified and useable by all (possibly annual subscription?)
>> This
>> > would include customer service charter, guidelines for producing a
>> library
>> > procedures manual for common activities, advertising material, reader
>> > development activities etc etc. I know some of this exists already but
>> it
>> > is very disparate. - but I digress.
>> > Isn't one of the roles of The People's Network Website to promote best
>> > practice and provide examples of how learning centres in libraries
>> should
>> > be done? I don't know about you but I have spent so much time
>> implementing
>> > training, worrying about audit trails, ensuring we jump through so many
>> > hoops I wonder if it is all worth it. In this small authority there
>> aren't
>> > enough bodies to everything that is expected by NOF. So what about NOF
>> > being proactive and taking this role on board?
>> > Philip Wark
>> > Principal Librarian
>> > Midlothian Council Library Service
>> > Library HQ
>> > 2 Clerk Street
>> > Loanhead
>> > Midlothian EH20 9DR
>> > Tel: 0131 271 3971
>> > Fax: 0131 440 4635
>> > Vice Chair CSG
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>
>
>
Susi Woodhouse
People's Network Development Team
Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries
16 Queen Anne's Gate
London SW1H 9AA
Tel: 01273-721083
Fax: 01273-779129
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
www.peoplesnetwork.gov.uk
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