++ 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

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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.



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Paula Cuccurullo
Reporting Secretary, Scottish Visual Arts Group (SVAG)
tel  (0131) 651 1432   /   fax  (0131) 650 3308
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