Dear MCG members,

Just a quick email to let you know that you've got a JISC 
'lurker' on this listserve.  This also seems a good 
opportunity to clarify one or two points.  JISC circular 
05/99 is the first from JISC that includes a specific 
invitation of bids from university museums.  This reflects 
a lot of thinking that has gone on internally about the 
potential learning & teaching value of electronic material 
held in a variety of cultural heritage repositories -- 
archives, libraries, and museums & galleries.  Museums are 
seen as potentially important partners for the supply of 
information, but it is also felt that we ALL need a bit 
more information about how museum-derived electronic 
content can be packaged so as to be most useful in learning 
& teaching settings in higher education.

As JISC is a committee of the higher education funding 
councils, its remit is to stimulate and enable the cost 
effective exploitation of information systems in the UK 
higher education and research councils communities.  JISC's 
remit is not to provide core funding for all museums.  It 
can, however, justify financial support for creative 
proposals from university-based museums.  Sharp reading of 
the JISC circular (and I realize that this was a very 
difficult document to read, especially with NOF deadlines 
and xmas looming!) reveals that non-HE bodies can be 
partnered with universities to apply for funds BUT THAT 
CLEAR VALUE FOR MONEY MUST BE DEMONSTRATED for any funding 
flowing to the non-HE partners. 

If there are consortia of musuems, led by a 
university-based museum, that might be considering applying 
I would be more than happy to answer any questions and to 
offer guidance.

Cheers for now, and happy holidays

- Alicia Wise
JISC Collections Manager


On Mon, 20 Dec 1999 09:24:02 +0000 Suzanne Keene 
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Museums might have taken more interest if the JISC policy paper on this
> hadn't clearly stated that *university* museums was what they were
> interested in - I read it very carefully. It sounded short sighted but then
> it's JISC's funding. Developing expressions of interest for NoF, due at the
> end of January, is I suspect taking up most available museum resources.
> Perhaps if JISC doesn't get the interest it hopes for it could review its
> tactics here - higher education will lose in the end if museum resources
> remain untapped.
> 
> Happy Christmas to all, and a bug free millennium,
> 
> Suzanne Keene
> 
> 
> 
> At 18:38 19/12/99 -0000, you wrote:
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> >I would like to support David's urgings on this (his message is repeated
> >below in case you missed it- one of those occasions when it is worth not
> >editing when replying). There is a very great opportunity to be had here and
> >an associated danger that if there is no interest then it will not be
> >repeated. mda is available to advise museums interested in making
> >applications, although the office is now closed until the first week in
> >January.
> >
> >Best wishes, for the holidays.
> >
> >Dr Matthew Stiff
> >Head of Standards
> >mda, 19 Riverside Road, Oxford, OX2 0HT
> >Tel: 	  +44 (0)1865 200561
> >Fax: 	  +44 (0)870 054 7783
> >Mobile: +44 (0)7939 151510
> >
> >e-mail: [log in to unmask]
> >URL:		    www.mda.org.uk
> >24 Hour Museum: www.24hourmuseum.org.uk
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> >> Behalf Of David Dawson
> >> Sent: 17 December 1999 15:14
> >> To: 'GEM'; 'MCG mailbase'
> >> Subject: JISC Funding for museums
> >>
> >>
> >> JISC held a 'Town Meeting' to discuss the latest funding initiative in
> >> London yesterday - as I mailed to the list on 11 November.
> >>
> >> There appeared to be no-one there from museums (though I may
> >> be wrong!).
> >> In the discussion it became clear that the funding could be for any
> >> museum to work with a University Teaching Department to create on-line
> >> learning resources. Preference would be given to University
> >> Museums, but
> >> other museums can bid as well, providing that they can
> >> demonstrate value
> >> for money. The whole Call is for £9million of funding, and
> >> museums could
> >> gain several hundred thousand pounds . . . There is active interest in
> >> seeing museums involved.
> >>
> >> Applications due by 24 January
> >>
> >> Full details are at:-
> >> http://www.jisc.ac.uk/pub99/c05_99.html
> >>
> >> The most relevant paragraphs are
> >>
> >> Museums, Galleries and Archives
> >>
> >>   65.There is a great deal of interest in the role of
> >> museums, galleries
> >> and archives in the lifelong learning society. Many museums and
> >> galleries have well-established education departments, and the museums
> >> community has mobilised itself to participate in electronic curriculum
> >> development for the National Grid for Learning. There have been fewer
> >> links so far between museums and HE.
> >>   66.Proposals are invited for collaborations between university-based
> >> museums, galleries or archives and lecturers in academic departments.
> >> Many university-based organisations of these types have
> >> collections that
> >> are directly relevant to the pedagogic activities in their
> >> institutions,
> >> but few have been able to access enough IT to make their collections
> >> accessible to learners and teachers.
> >>   67.Examples of possible projects include digitisation of
> >> images/metadata from university-based museum, gallery or archive
> >> collections. It is a pre-requisite that the bid is made in conjunction
> >> with academic partners who are committed to using the resulting
> >> resources in UK HE classrooms and also with a partner who
> >> will evaluate
> >> how this is done and how successful it is. It is also
> >> essential that the
> >> appropriate intellectual property issues are adequately
> >> addressed. This
> >> might require some re-negotiation of licence terms.
> >>
> >>
> >> David Dawson
> >> Museums New Technology Adviser
> >> MGC, 16 Queen Anne's Gate, London SW1H 9AA
> >> email: [log in to unmask] tel: +44 (0)171 233 4200
> >> Visit us on-line at www.museums.gov.uk
> >>
> >
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Alicia Wise
JISC Collections Manager
Old Library
King's College London
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