UCL LIBRARY SERVICES ANNUAL REPORT 2006/07

Contents: Introduction from the Director Services Projects Buildings Notable acquisitions Staffing External committees Publications

Introduction from the Director of Library Services Dr Paul Ayris

2006-07 has proved to be a notable year in the implementation of the Library's 5-year Strategy (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/libstrat.shtml). Electronic delivery and the complete overhaul of UCL's physical library estate are key deliverables in this Strategy and both are areas where achievements can be reported. Substantial progress has been made in achieving the first objective with over 40% of UCL's journal subscriptions now available to UCL users in electronic form only - a percentage which is set to increase in future years. The launch of UCL's Digital Collections service is also an important pointer to the future role of academic libraries. This service aims to makes accessible a range of UCL's academic and scholarly assets - from digitised copies of the Library's Special Collections to eprints

in the UCL repository. Not only that, the service will also undertake the long-term digital curation of these assets - a vital service when the average life of a web page is around 30 days. In terms of the physical library estate, UCL has established a Master Planning Team comprising library staff, academic colleagues, colleagues from UCL Estates and Facilities, and external architects from BDP (Building Design Partnership) to advise on what the library estate in the twenty-first century should look and feel like. The Biomedical Administrative Review reported that all libraries in the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences should merge fully within UCL Library Services. We look forward to even closer working with colleagues in the former Postgraduate Institutes and welcome them into UCL Library Services. I am always impressed by the significant number of projects for which the Library gains external funding. Project bidding has now become embedded into the Library's culture. One of the ways in which the Library uses such bidding rounds is to identify future development paths for modern library and information services. Our collaboration with UCL SLAIS, and the Library's work on an international Ex Libris EBooks Working Group, underlines for me that E-Books look set to follow E-Journals as a major medium for the delivery of content to researchers, teachers and learners in UCL. On behalf of UCL, I would like to congratulate all library staff for another successful year with productive progress to report on many fronts. This progress, and the resulting changes in the nature of the Library's services, are reported below in the pages of this Annual Report, available electronically via the Library's website. It is a sign of the changing nature of library provision that no equivalent paper copy of this Annual Report is produced. Digital delivery now underpins much of what the Library does. Paul Ayris Director of UCL Library Services

Services
Service developments Extending our service to users continues to be a major focus, again with particular emphasis on support for students and on e-strategy development. Two key appointments - for the first time of a conservator as Preservation Librarian and to the newly created post of Digital Curation Manager - reflect the importance attached to the care and curation of collections in both print and electronic formats.

Service enhancements

The launch of UCL's RALIC (Replacement Access, Library and ID Card) service has streamlined library registration. The relevant information is now transferred direct from UCL corporate support systems into the library's membership database, eliminating the need for a separate library registration process for holders of UCL ID cards. A significant number of users who already benefit from extended opening hours also want to be able to borrow books all the time that the buildings are open. Detailed planning began early in 2007 for implementing a system, based on radio frequency ID (RFID) tags that will allow users to borrow books even when the service desks are closed. It is hoped that the system, due to go live in the UCL Science Library in summer 2008, will eventually be extended to all other UCL Library Services sites. The delivery service from the Wickford Store was extended during the year to cover the UCL Cruciform and UCL SSEES Libraries, the Royal Free Hospital Medical Library, UCL Library Services and the UCL Institute of Orthopaedics Library. Readers at these libraries no longer have to go to the main campus to collect requested items but can instead ask to have them delivered direct to their library. Enhancing digital access The Library's portfolio of electronic resources continues to grow and to be heavily used; an increasing amount of this use is from off-campus as both students and staff take advantage of the opportunity to work at the place and time which suits them, unconstrained by library buildings and opening hours. The popularity of electronic format was demonstrated by the positive reaction to the move in January 2007 to e-only provision of titles in science, technology and medicine published by Elsevier. This exercise is due to be repeated for titles from other major publishers in 2009. During the year an enhanced 'walk-in' access service was launched. Each library site now houses a dedicated workstation allowing those Library users who are not staff and students of UCL access to those electronic resources where the publishers. licences permit. As a result of collaboration with colleagues in UCL Information Systems, the Library catalogue eUCLid and resource discovery tool MetaLib are now available almost continuously with only a brief nightly outage of a few minutes. Usage statistics show that a significant and growing number of library users appreciate and make use of these services throughout the night. http://library.ucl.ac.uk/

WISE Resource discovery has also been greatly improved with the introduction of authority control into the Library catalogue. This ensures that the names, series titles and other headings contained in over one million records are consistent, so users can be more confident of having identified all relevant items when they search the catalogue. Work has continued on providing web-based tutorials on how to make best use of library resources, with the completion of a new WISE module offering guidance to students in Biomedical and Life Sciences. Two further modules - one for Engineering and the Built Environment, another for Social & Historical Sciences - are nearing completion. The number of items in UCL's open access repository for research papers, UCL Eprints, has doubled in the past year, making it the 5th largest in the UK. Requests for access to individual items have more than doubled, and the top papers are routinely downloaded more than 100 times per month. Amongst the most popular items are theses: the number of these will increase considerably in the next few years as UCL's decision to mandate deposition of electronic copies of research degree theses starts to take effect. http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/ Student support and outreach On behalf of the University of London's University Libraries Committee, Vincent Matthews chaired a small group of colleagues from libraries across the federal University of London to revise the terms of the long-standing University of London Libraries Access Agreement. This Agreement is an important supplement to other national schemes allowing access to other HE libraries for UK university students and staff. For UCL students, the Agreement means that they can use other University of London libraries during term-time, rather than being restricted to vacation use. The update agreement accepted by the University Libraries Committee is at: www.london.ac.uk/libraries agreement.html Library Services was an active participant in UCL's two Open Days for prospective students in March 2007. Tours, the stand, lots of queries, informal tours and chats with students and parents, showed us that the Library is an important factor for visitors. Students were looking for computer access and their parents showed continued interest in printed resources. In September 2006 we hosted a group of Gifted and Talented Year 12 students from Queen's Park Community School as part of an A2 Enrichment Day programme. They

viewed selected materials from UCL Special Collections' 1914-18 collection to support their English Literature course. Library Services hosted visits from some 25 different schools during the year, supporting students working for their A levels or students considering applying to University. Our links with City and Islington College and in particular its 6th Form Centre continue to develop as we hosted a visit from some of their Resource Centre staff, recognizing how much we have in common with split site working as a common background. We extended borrowing and study rights to those City and Islington 6th Form Centre students who wanted to use our services. Our seasonal Public Newsletter, UCL Library News was re-launched and as the year progressed we recognized that in future we shall make this an e-only publication. Like this report this allows us to include live links and plenty of illustrations. www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/Newsletter

Exhibitions

The Mocatta exhibition 2007 marked the 350th anniversary of the re-admission of the Jews to England under Cromwell and the Library with its substantial Hebrew and Jewish collections was well placed to celebrate the year. In November 2006 a dinner organized by Library Services was held in UCL with prominent members of the Anglo-Jewish Community attending. This coincided with a special exhibition in the Library displaying some of our treasures from UCL Special Collections. We loaned materials for exhibition also to the Cromwell Museum and the Jewish Museum's touring exhibition for the year. The Chief Rabbi, Dr Jonathan Sacks, used the Library and its collections as a backdrop to a BBC television programme on the 350th anniversary. Fortuitously the year also saw the centenary of the reception of the Mocatta Collection into UCL becoming the cornerstone of Library Services' Hebrew and Jewish collections and we were pleased to meet so many members of the current Mocatta family at the exhibition opening and dinner. During the summer Library Staff displayed some of their own private collections in an exhibition called Eclectica. The mix of books, large and small, model buses, soldiers, owls and pigs sat well with antique lace and proved popular. Another library staff exhibition is planned for summer 2008.

A Box of Useful Knowledge (Brougham Papers) As the new session started an exhibition on the history of Laws at UCL showed our fine collections to great effect and was further enhanced by an intervention in the closing weeks by a Slade School student. Each exhibition is now accompanied by an illustrated booklet describing the items on show and written by a team of willing volunteers. The newly formed Exhibitions Group is now finding its feet and planning an ambitious range of two major exhibitions every year, usually accompanied by an opening party and celebration.

Projects
Project work is a very important element of the Library's remit, with the focus on collection care and enhancing access, and research and development. In the case of materials from UCL Special Collections, this includes preservation of important documents and preparing collections for digitisation. In the case of digital resources, this again includes both the provision of content and the further development of methodologies aimed at ensuring preservation and long-term access.

UCL Special Collections

Art for medicine's sake, the project for the restoration of the pathological anatomy drawings and watercolours of Sir Robert Carswell (1793-1857), was completed in December 2006, thanks to a grant from the Wellcome Foundation. A link to the full listing of all the 1031 items in the collection can be found on the website at www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/special-coll/carswell.shtml.

Conditions of the Brain, watercolour pathological drawing by Carswell Bentham papers A further phase of the ongoing project for the deacidification and encapsulation of the papers of Jeremy Bentham, covering over 1,500 documents on the Constitutional Code and the Jury System, was completed thanks to a grant from the National Manuscripts Conservation fund. www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/special-coll/bentham.shtml Gaster papers A grant from MLA-London has enabled us to re-house and re-box part of the correspondence of Sir Moses Gaster (1856-1939). The Gaster papers comprise an extensive collection of over 170,000 items include letters from many important contemporaries as well as a wide range of other items collected by Gaster. www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/special-coll/jewish.shtml#ga Judaica A grant from UCL Futures has enabled conservation treatment to be carried out on a number of Anglo-Jewish pamphlets in preparation for digitisation work. The ultimate aim is to produce a digital version of what is a virtually complete published record of the history of Anglo-Jewry in the nineteenth and first part of the twentieth centuries. Hume Tracts The Hume Tracts, a collection of pamphlets assembled by the nineteenth-century radical politician Joseph Hume (1777-1855) and covering themes ranging from parliamentary reform, through the abolition of slavery in British colonies to the problem of obtaining corpses for dissection in anatomy classes, are included in a project to digitise 19th century pamphlets. The project is led by CURL, the Consortium of Research Libraries in the British Isles, and work to prepare the collection for digitisation has been completed. www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/specialcoll/hume.shtml

UCL Wickford Store UCL is currently engaged in a pilot project with Cambridge University Library with the aim of formally sharing responsibility for long-term storage of print materials in targeted collections. The methodology developed and tested in respect of two collections will be more widely applicable and will enable UCL to participate in similar initiatives both regionally and nationally.

E-resources specialist subject coverage

NLH - Neurological Conditions Specialist Library Building on its success with the Gastroenterology & Liver Diseases Specialist Library last year, the specialist libraries team at the Royal Free Hospital Medical Library, UCL Library Services was awarded the contract in late 2006 to develop the Neurological Conditions Specialist Library. This is part of the National Library for Health and provides information targeted at NHS healthcare professionals. www.library.nhs.uk/neurological

E-resources support for teaching & learning

SuperBook Project The Library was a partner in the SuperBook Project, led by the UCL School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, with the aim of users. attitudes to and use of electronic books. One outcome is that UCL staff and students now have continuing access to four collections (of over 1,200 titles) that were heavily used during the project. In the longer term, the findings of the associated surveys will inform further development of the Library's e-resources strategy. www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/research/ciber/superbook Repositories / digital preservation LASSO The LASSO (LEAP Aggregated Search Service On-line) project is the third phase of SHERPA-LEAP, the London Eprints Access Project, and began in March 2007. One of the main aims of the project is to design and implement a single interface to allow cross-searching of the content of all the eprint repositories involved in SHERPALEAP. www.sherpa-leap.ac.uk/lasso.html EMBRACE The aim of the EMBRACE project, which began in May 2007, is to enhance the repositories involved in SHERPA-LEAP. This will include the development of a tool to embed citations and other information into the text of eprints. The project will also investigate issues around the advocacy of repositories of digital assets. www.sherpaleap.ac.uk/embrace.html" RIOJA RIOJA (Repository Interface for Overlaid Journal Archives) is funded by the JISC

(Joint Information Systems Committee), as part of its Repositories and Preservation Programme. RIOJA is a partnership, led by UCL and involving four other universities in the UK and the USA. The main aim of the project, which began in March 2007, is to investigate issues around quality assurance in papers deposited in eprints repositories, focusing on astrophysics and cosmology. www.ucl.ac.uk/ls/rioja/ Identity Project UCL is a partner in the Identity Project, which began in November 2006 with the aim of investigating issues around authenticating access to networked resources. It is funded by the JISC as part of its e-Infrastructure Programme, and complements work being carried out in-house in collaboration with UCL Information Systems on Shibboleth, the system of user authentication that UCL will shortly be introducing. www.angel.ac.uk/identity-project/index.html LIFE 2 LIFE Phase 2 is a European collaboration between the LIBER Access and Preservation Divisions. Its aim is to identify economic models for the curation of digital assets and their long-term digital preservation. Phase 2 of the project, which began on 1 March 2007, will firm up the models developed in Phase 1, test the models on a further range of assets - including the Open Access repositories in their UCL-led SHERPA-LEAP partnership, and compare the costs of digital versus analogue preservation. http://www.life.ac.uk/2

Buildings
With so many sites to manage there is always some building or refurbishment activity happening in Library Services. This year we were pleased to be involved in planning substantial work in the UCL Main Library funded by a CURL-Wolfson grant. The plans for work to start in the summer of 2007 will provide new reading rooms for Art and Art History and Economics and Philosophy. These disparate collections housed in the fine Donaldson Reading Room will give way to a new reading room for Law. Funding will be needed to bring the Donaldson Reading Room up to the standards required for our students. It is hoped that the move into the new reading rooms will happen early in 2008. Laws collections meanwhile will be housed in an area contiguous to the Library until the work is finished. We hope that the patience of our users (and some displaced staff) will be rewarded by splendid new accommodation.

UCL Donaldson Reading Room A second round of bids for CURL-Wolfson funding resulted in a successful allocation of funds to start some much-needed refurbishment of the ground floor of the Science Library. Planning is underway for this to be achieved during 2008-9. Part of the planning includes our first installation of Self-issue equipment with Radio-Frequency (RFID) tagging. Elsewhere, work began on a basement extension and refurbishment for the Library at the Royal Free Hospital. The Human Communication Science Library moved into temporary accommodation while its usual abode was refurbished. It is hoped that the new accommodation will be ready in 2008. Meanwhile the stunning new SSEES Library, whose opening was reported previously proved its worth by doubling its footfall in the summer of 2007. On the strategic front the Director launched an ambitious Masterplanning exercise for the Library estate with the help of BDP Architects and with academic membership of the group. The report of this wide-ranging study is expected to be presented to UCL early in 2008.

Notable Acquisitions / Donations

Mocatta Donation

The Mocatta Haggadah (MS Mocatta 1) During the year Library Services was delighted to receive a generous donation from Patrick and William Mocatta to help conserve and properly store the valuable collections which were deposited on the death of their ancestor Frederic Mocatta. A proper review of the collection will suggest which items most deserve special treatment.

Robert Jonckheere
In August 2006, the papers of Robert Jonckheere (1920-2005), formerly Senior Lecturer in Psychology, UCL were presented by his widow Dr Sophie Botros. They include correspondence with important psychologists and statisticians such as Sir Cyril Burt, with whom he worked, as well as research files.

Lewis Trust
In February 2007, a further 9 printed books were deposited by the Lewis Trust, including Jewish Marriage Laws by John Selden, 1646, and The Ceremonies of the Present Jews, 1728. A rare copy of Lady Judith Montefiore's The Jewish Manual, 1846 was also included.

Eric Burhop
In May 2007, 11 boxes of additional papers of the nuclear physicist Professor Eric Burhop, FRS (1911-1980) consisting mainly of papers relating to Pugwash conferences in the 1950s and 60s, and the Moscow Symposium of 1975 were presented by his son Graham Burhop.

Malcolm Lilly
The papers and correspondence of Malcolm Lilly, FEng FRS (1936-1998) were presented by his widow Mrs Sheila Lilly.

British Deaf History

A small collection of archival and related material covering British Deaf history, including original registers and punishment book from the Blanche Nevile School for the Deaf in Haringay, was presented to the the UCL Institute of Laryngology and Otology and RNID Library.

Staffing
From more or less the first day of the 2006-7 session, the Main Library's Information Point on the ground floor of the Wilkins Building was staffed by a team of library staff newly led by Dayaram Nakrani, our full-time Information Point Officer, jointly funded by UCL Estates & Facilities. As the first point of entry to the main Wilkins building Dayaram and his colleagues aim to provide a welcoming and friendly enquiry service, covering not just UCL Library Services but also help and guidance on UCL campus events, contacts and locations.

Staff Conference June 2007 saw the first ever one-day conference of all UCL Library Services Staff. With a keynote speech from the Provost surprised to see so many Library staff in one lecture theatre, 170 people (more than three quarters of the staff) gathered for a day of training sessions, participative and informative workshops, and team-building activities. The day gave an opportunity for staff from all the libraries within UCL to meet each other, often for the first time, and exchange views and ideas. The Staff Conference proved so popular that it is to become a regular feature of the Library Services year. Fred Bearman, a distinguished conservator, was recruited as Preservation Librarian in January 2007. This is the first time we have ever had a conservator on the staff. His influence has already been seen all around the Library, as he advises us on collections care, and particularly on the care of our Special Collections. Fred arrived in time for the final planning of the conservation studio in the Institute for Cultural

Heritage, and is already involved in plans for preparing the Special Collections for the move. The session saw the establishment of a new post of Digital Curation Manager to which Martin Moyle was appointed. Martin brought with him into the IT Services Group the staff working on the externally-funded SHERPA-LEAP and RIOJA projects. During the year we welcomed several other new colleagues and said goodbye and happy retirement to others, notably John Allen our combined English and Philosophy Subject Librarian and Buildings Officer and Patricia Campbell, for much of her time at UCL Librarian of the Boldero Library at the Middlesex Hospital and Spanish Subject Librarian and latterly Deputy Librarian at the Cruciform Library. During the year an online fortnightly Staff Newsletter, LibNet News was launched with an enthusiastic editorial group led by the Deputy Director who take turns at the Editorial desk and report Library Services various activities to their colleagues. The mix of serious news and information and articles on different sites and interests is becoming established as a good medium for communication as email boxes overflow.

External Committee Memberships

Director - Paul Ayris CURL/SCONUL Joint Scholarly Communications Group Ex Libris Internationa E-books Working Group HEFCE Review of the Research Information Network (Chair) Joint Information Systems Committee Repositories and Preservation Advisory Group Journals Working Group SPECTRA Project Board (Chair) UC Cream of Science Feasibility Study (Chair) Lambeth Palace Advisory Panel for Libraries and Archives, Lambeth Palace LIBER LIBER Board Member Access Division (Chair) SPARC Europe Board (Secretary) Open Scholarship Organising Committee, Glasgow 2006 (Chair) OA15 Organising Committe, Geneva 2007 (Chair) LIBER/EBLIDA Digitisation Expert Group

National Library for Health Board Research Information Network(RIN) Research Communications Group Royal College of Physicians Royal College of Physicians Library Committee SCONUL Health Strategy Group SHERPA SHERPA partnership Management Group (Chair) Wellcome Trust Wellcome Trust Library Advisory Committee (Deputy Chair) Medical Journals Backfiles Digitisation Project Board University of London University Libraries Committee (Deputy Chair) ULC National Initiatives Working Group SHERPA-LEAP Consortium (Chair)

Deputy Director - Elizabeth Chapman CURL Chair of Taskforce on Resource Management SCONUL Member of Executive Board from June 2006 M25 Consortium Resource Discovery Working Group until 2006 SWETS (Netherlands) International Advisory Board SCONUL Member of Executive Board from June 2006 Library collections, acquisitions, and technical services Editorial Board Member Journal of librarianship and information service Editorial Board Member Group Manager, Planning and Resources - Janet Percival Board of Archives for London Company Secretary M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries Working Group on Quality Working Group on Marketing and Communication

Group Manager, Bibliographic Services - Diana Mercer Linnean Society of London Collections Committee Group Manager, Reader Services - Vincent Matthews University of London University Libraries Committee (Chair of group to revise University of London Libraries Access Agreement) Head of Special Collections - Gill Furlong Linnean Society Library Collections Commitee HERON User Group Committee CPD25 User Resources and Services Task Group Head of Periodicals - Karen Jeger JISC Collections Library Advisory Working Group Academic Support Manager, Science Team - Gavin Beattie M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries Resource Discovery Working Group UCL Environmental Studies Library, Site Librarian - Angela Jefkins CILIP Career Development Group, London & South East Committee Royal Free Hospital Medical School Library, UCL Library Services, Site Librarian - Betsy Anagnostelis Committees University Medical School Librarians Group (UMSLG) - Chair NLH Content and Collections Development Group NLH Technical Design Authority Group M25/London Health Libraries Group. HE-NHS Forum NHS-HE Content Procurement Group eKAT (electronic Knowledge Access Team) Technical Reference Group Royal College of Physicians Library Committee

JISC ebooks observatory project board Royal Free Hospital Medical Library, UCL Library Services - Sara Clarke CILIP Health Libraries Group Royal Free Hospital Medical Library, UCL Library Services - Marina Waddington CILIP Health Libraries Group

Staff presentations, conference papers & publications

Staff presentations and conference papers
Director - Paul Ayris

2 August 2006: Open Access: its Potential for the Future. An invitation talk given to staff at Sage Publications, London, UK. 5 September 2006: Change Management at The Library Service of the Future for Central Banks and Regulatory Agencies at King's College, Cambridge 7 September 2006: Possibilities for central bank library collaboration at The Library Service of the Future for Central Banks and Regulatory Agencies at King's College, Cambridge 20 October 2006: Pulling Together the Threads: Next Steps for Repositories at Open Scholarship: New Challenges for Open Access Repositories at the University of Glasgow 3 November 2006: The UNICA Scholarly Communications Group at the Annual General Assembly, Riga, Latvia 9 November 2006: E-Books in the context of E-Learning Strategy at E-book nelle biblioteche accademiche. Ancora un cambiamento da governare, Bologna, Italy 12 January 2007: The DART-Europe Project: towards developing a European Theses Portal, at the Universitat Politcnica de Catalunya 15 February 2007: The Future of Scholarly Publishing at the EU Conference Scientific Publishing in the European Research Area: Access, Dissemination and Preservation in the Digital Age, Brussels 15-16 February 2007 19 February 2007: Strategic Directions and Operational Challenges in Supporting Research at Supporting Researchers: Strategy, Policy and

Practice for Library and Information Services, UC+R (London) Conference, Birkbeck College

23 March 2007: UCL Library Services and Quality Measures at Measuring Quality in Libraries. A Seminar organised by the LIBER Division of Library Management and Administration at the Bibliothque Nationale, Paris 27 March 2007: Research Library Perspectives at the E-Journal Archiving and Preservation Workshop under the auspices of the JISC, the British Library and the Digital Preservation Coalition 20 April 2007: Pulling Together the Threads at OAI5 at the 5th Cern Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI5), Geneva 5-6 June 2007: Institutional Issues: a London Casebook at Digital Repositories: Dealing with the Digital Deluge, the JISC Digital Repositories Conference, Manchester 5-6 June 2007: The DART-Europe project: towards developing a European theses portal, at Digital Repositories: Dealing with the Digital Deluge, the JISC Repositories Conference, Manchester 15 June 2007: What does a 21st-century library service look and feel like? at the 1st UCL Library Services Staff Conference, UCL 29 June 2007: The Work of UNICA in the Context of New Modes of Publication and Dissemination at the SLAIS E-Publishing Summer School, UCL

Deputy Director - Elizabeth Chapman

Why have e-books never taken off? Fiesole Retreat, Lund, August 2006 Preparing for emergenciesInvited session for staff of Royal Library and other Danish cultural institutions, Copenhagen, August 2006 Emergency Planning after July 2005 Conference for National Bank Information Officers, Cambridge, September 2006 Managing Multi-site services M25 CpD meeting, Anglia Ruskin University, May 2007 E- for Everything, UCL Summer School for New York Pratt ILS students, June 2007

Teaching & Learning Support Service Co-ordinator - June Hedges

20th March 2007: Developing and digital course reading service across UCL's sites at the Scanning Practice Event, University of Warwick Library Research Innovation Unit.

IT Services Development Officer - Margaret Flett

23 August 2006: Implementing cross search tools: challenges and opportunities at Meeting the challenge of the Google Generation - technology or training?, ALISS conference, London 4-7 September 2006: MARCIt! and other Aleph/SFX integrations (conference poster) at First IGeLU conference, Stockholm 27 February 2007: New forms of discovery: the academic perspective at Association of Subscription Agents and Intermediaries Conference, Royal College of Nursing, London 6 March 2007: MetaLib statistics at SFX and MetaLib User Group (UK & Ireland), British Library, London 21 May 2007: UCL's preparations for Shibboleth at CPD25 seminar, Access to Electronic Resources - are you ready for Shibboleth?, School of Oriental and African Studies, London

IT Services Digital Curation Manager - Martin Moyle

28 March 2007: The evolution of a repository: policy decisions at UCL at SHERPA-LEAP Workshop on Institutional Repositories, London 18-20 April 2007: Polydoratou, P. and Moyle, M. Exploring overlay journals: the RIOJA project at CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI5), Geneva, Switzerland 5-6 June 2007: Moyle, M. and Polydoratou, P. Exploring overlay journals: the RIOJA project at Digital Repositories: Dealing with the Data Deluge, Manchester, UK. 13-16 June 2007: The DART-Europe E-theses Portal at ETD 2007: Added Values to E-theses. European E-theses Working Group Workshop, Uppsala, Sweden

IT Services SHERPA-LEAP Project Officer - Rebecca Stockley

28 March 2007: Accessible repositories at SHERPA-LEAP Workshop on Institutional Repositories, London Medical School Library, UCL Library Services

Royal Free Hospital - Betsy Anagnostelis

10 July 2007: Introduction to literature searching for systematic reviews at Oxford Brookes University Systematic Reviews course, Oxford - Sara Clarke

May 2007 Clinical Librarians and Specialist Libraries at Clinical Librarian Conference, York

Staff publications
Director - Paul Ayris

Hyams, E., "Moving Beyond E-Journals. An interview with Dr Paul Ayris". Library and Information Update, 5 (10) (2006), pp. 18-20 McLeod, R., Wheatley, P. and Ayris, P. Lifecycle information for e-literature: a summary from the LIFE project (2006) McLeod, R., Wheatley, P. and Ayris, P. Lifecycle information for e-literature: full report from the LIFE project (2006)

Deputy Director - Elizabeth Chapman

A classic renewal: UCL's building programme. CILIP Update, 31 - 34, 2006 5 (7/8) Libraries and librarians in the electronic age. with F. Webster, in The Cambridge history of libraries in Britain and Ireland, vol 3:639 - 653. Cambridge University Press, 2006

IT Services Digital Curation Manager - Martin Moyle and colleagues

Moyle, M., Stockley, R. and Tonkin, S. "SHERPA-LEAP: a consortial model for the creation and support of academic institutional repositories." OCLC Systems and Services, 23 (2) pp. 125-132

Credits
Editors: Elizabeth Chapman and Diana Mercer Design: Nathaniel Catchpole