Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: December 22, 2009
So, JISC has released a call for enhancing Library Management Systems. Interesting. From looking through the call it has plenty of scope but, due to the funding, only HEIs or FE Colleges with over 400 FTE HE learners can lead a bid. We have a number of these in our region so those colleges that are [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: October 14, 2009
In 2007/8 the RSCs were given funding for an Information Officers post whose role, for half of their time, is to seek and assist with authoring FE case studies for inclusion on the QIA Excellence Gateway. This work has resulted in a wealth of information being made available. Some of the library related case studies [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: September 2, 2009
I’ve just spent some time having a look at the Case Studies that have been produced as part of the JISC Shared Infrastructure Services (SIS) Landscape Study and found some very interesting links and ideas. My main gripe with the studies is that they are all text based and do take some working through. To [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: March 15, 2007
David Salvesen from IS Oxford has recently posted new information to the Heritage mailing list regarding Heritage online and it’s integration with Moodle. This looks like it could be an excellent development and I can’t wait to see it in practice. The email is below. We are working on an API (Application Programming Interface) to Heritage [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: January 19, 2007
I’ve just received a link to the TOCRoSS project that has been running over the last 18 months at Emerald and the University of Derby. The aim was to use RSS technology to automatically stream journal data into the Talis Library Management System which would enable the user to search more information about the journal [...]
