italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
Dear List members,
I am forwarding the following message on research
resources on behalf of Dr Caroline Warman. If you wish
to reply, please do so directly to her.
Kind regards,
Vilma De Gasperin
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Instructor in Italian
Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages
& Language Teaching Centre
University of Oxford
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MESSAGE FROM DR WARMAN:
Dear Modern Languages Colleagues (via francofil,
BASEES (Slavonic and East
European languages), Italian Mailing list, Hispanists
via Mike Thompson,
Germanists via Duncan Large, Modern Gk via Anthony
Hirst, Byzantine via
Elizabeth Jeffreys, Asian Studies via Lesley Forbes)
I would like to let you know about a new policy-making
body, the Research
Information Network (RIN http://www.rin.ac.uk). It has
been established for an
initial three-year period, with £3 million of funding,
by a consortium of UK
sponsors: the four Higher Education funding bodies,
the three National
Libraries, and the eight Research Councils. Its
mission is:
„To lead and co-ordinate new developments in the
collaborative provision of
research information for the benefit of researchers in
the UK"
also:
"Its ambition is to serve the research community by
helping to cut paths through
the ever-growing and increasingly-complex mass of
information that underpins the
work of all researchers."
What this may mean is establishing policy with regard
to library collections and
electronic resources (what is made available to
researchers, what is perhaps put
online digitally especially for them). It may also
mean 'collaborative
collection management and storage' ie focusing on some
libraries and reducing
duplicate collections elsewhere.
It will establish its decisions partly by committee:
ML is represented by me in
the Arts, Humanitites and Social Sciences group (total
12 members
http://www.rin.ac.uk/?q=consultative-group-ahs).
Before attending the first
meeting March 10, I'd be extremely grateful if
colleagues could let me know any
views they have on ML provision in libraries and
electronically, and what they
regard as priorities for future provision, and how
they would see such a body as
best serving ML's 'research information needs'.
Any responses can be sent directly to me
([log in to unmask]). I
hope colleagues will be happy for me to request
further responses when the need
arises, and will make sure I post any significant
developments to your list. Let
me know if there are other message boards etc that I
should be contacting. Many
thanks.
All best, Caroline Warman
--
Dr Caroline Warman
Fellow and Tutor in French
Jesus College, Oxford OX1 3DW
01865 279752
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