The Final Curtain

The document below is our final synthesis report which draws together our thoughts and observations from the past 6 months or so of the JISC LMS Programme. You can also download the report as a PDF [edit: link has now been changed to a googledoc link. Click 'File' > 'Download original' to access the report in pdf format].



While searching for inspiration for the title of this blogpost I stumbled across the thought provoking http://www.finalcurtain.com/ and was hit by the thought that maybe we'll meet again in the future as we stroll through a memorial theme park for JISC projects. [We've all got our dreams :)]

Workshop Slides - JISC 2011 Conference

As part of the ongoing dissemination of the JISC LMS programme, David Kay and myself ran a workshop at the recent JISC annual conference. We promised to make our slides available online so here they are:

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We couldn't run the session as interactively as we'd planned due to the number of folks who got waylaid by lunch and networking but that's probably just as well given that I could easily have spent the whole time we had available talking about the interesting things which came out of the projects.

Growing Knowledge {British Library + JISC et al}

This 'Growing Knowledge' exhibition looks interesting - The main focus is on the role of digital technology for researchers who use the British Library but there are some interesting points about the changing expectations of researchers which I'm sure will resonate for those within academic libraries. If anyone gets the chance to visit the exhibition I'd be interested to find out whether any of the tools and gadgets they're exhibiting make it onto your library wishlist.

There are some more videos on the exhibition website: http://www.growingknowledge.bl.uk/ (not in an embeddable format alas).

There's a chance to see some of the tech on this Reuters video about the exhibition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A1hpXkMmvM [embedding has been disabled unfortunately]

If you haven't seen it already then it's also worth taking a look at the British Library's 2020 Vision which was crafted as the result of a year long consultation exercise: http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/stratpolprog/2020vision/2020A3.pdf