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JISC Report Gives Insight Into E-book Usage 14 Apr 2009 | 08:54 pm
JISC has recently released preliminary results of one of the largest investigations ever undertaken into the usage of e-books by students. The results provide useful lessons for all of us and suggest ...
JISC Digital Content Conference 2009 9 Apr 2009 | 04:44 am
A date for your diary: June 30th to July 1st 2009 JISC warmly invites delegates to attend its Digital Content Conference. In the context of the completion of Phase 2 of the JISC Digitisation Programm...
Video from the Oxford debate is now on the website 7 Apr 2009 | 02:52 am
Videos of the presentations at the recent Libraries of the Future debate held in Oxford last week are now live on the JISC libraries of the future web site <http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/campaigns/li...
Libraries of the Future – session 3, plenary question and answer 3 Apr 2009 | 04:50 am
Question Time – chaired by Professor Vincent Gillespie, JRR Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language, University of Oxford Q: How can students currently in LIS and i-school programmes ens...
Libraries of the Future – session 2 3 Apr 2009 | 03:05 am
Perspective: commercial sector – Santiago de la Mora (Google) Google’s mission is to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. It sounds grandiose, but that is ...
Libraries of the Future – session 1 3 Apr 2009 | 02:52 am
After a ten-minute delay, Vincent Gillespie welcomed the fashionably late delegates to the afternoon’s conference, What is the library of the future? Not only are there attendees present at the Marti...
Solitary, Silent, and Sombre: New ‘Old’ Libraries or Library Spaces for the 21st Century? 2 Apr 2009 | 07:30 pm
We asked Les Watson an expert consultant to the JISC on Technology Enhanced Learning Environments to write about the library space of the future. He explains that responding to greater student diversi...
Solitary, Silent, and Sombre: New ‘Old’ Libraries or Library Spaces for the 21st Century? 2 Apr 2009 | 03:30 pm
We asked Les Watson an expert consultant to the JISC on Technology Enhanced Learning Environments to write about the library space of the future. He explains that responding to greater student diversi...
New short video presentation about the work of the Strategic Content Alliance 2 Apr 2009 | 07:29 am
A new short video presentation about the work of the Strategic Content Alliance has just been released – and is attached below. This highlights the big vision for the alliance and emphasises the barri...
The Strategic Content Alliance and Libraries of the Future 1 Apr 2009 | 12:08 am
The Strategic Content Alliance The work of the JISC lead Strategic Content Alliance is of great relevance to the library of the future and I though it would be useful just to highlight their activity...
