The RLG Partnership is running a 2-day conference for its European Partners at St Anne’s College, Oxford, on 22-23 April. See the programme at http://www.oclc.org/research/events/2010-04-22.htm . We would be delighted to extend a welcome to colleagues in RLUK who are not in RLG Partner institutions. The cost of the event for non-Partners is £150 per person, including all meals but not including accommodation in Oxford on the night of 23 April. Non-Partners are able to register by following the link above to the registration form.

The next RLUK AGM will be at St Annes College in Oxford University on April 21st 2010.

To confirm attendance to the meeting please complete a webform which can be found at http://www.rluk.ac.uk/node/591

The programme will be posted online shortly, for any other information please contact Kerry Alford at Kerry.alford@rluk.ac.uk

As part of the Strategic Plan RLUK have begun a Mentoring programme to support Workforce Development.
The programme is being led by Brian Lawson and will begin on Monday 8th February 2010.
Feedback from the first meeting will follow.

We are pleased to announce that the records of the libraries of the National Trust have been loaded onto Copac. This is the first time that the National Trust's catalogue has been available to search online.

''A vision for the academic library and information services of the future''

Libraries of the Future release press statement on latest project.

Please find full information attached.

The UK Research Reserve (UKRR – www.ukrr.ac.uk) is pleased to welcome 14 new Higher Education Institutions as members, taking its final membership to 29. The full UKRR membership, which includes libraries from right across the country, is:

Aberystwyth University
Cambridge University Library
Imperial College London
Kings College London
London School of Economics
Northumbria University
The Open University
Oxford University Library Services
Queen Mary, University of London
Royal Holloway, University of London
University of Aberdeen
University of Birmingham

JISC seeks community's views on the Google book settlement

The US Google Book Settlement and its potential implications have captured the attention and imagination of a range of people - from those working within higher and further education to publishers, authors, libraries, museums and archives. Interest has grown as developments have slowly unfolded, which have seen approximately seven million books digitised by Google through partnerships with libraries, publishers and authors.

The first courses as part of the RLUK and BL Preservation Advisory Centre's Preservation Learning Programme were held on 9 December. Two half-day sessions on disaster response and salvage training were held at the British Library and received very good feedback. Two further days are currently taking bookings in Edinburgh and Leeds for January. For further details and bookings:
http://www.bl.uk/npo/salvage.html

RLUK is very pleased to announce that David Prosser has been appointed Executive Director. David joins us from SPARC Europe, where his leadership and advocacy skills have played a critical role in the success of the European Open Access movement.

RLUK has with sister organizations other stakeholders been consulted and quoted in a headline article about the Open Access movement in the latest edition of the The Times Higher Education.

For the full article online please see:

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode...