Welcome! To Electric Connections 2004!

Electric Connections 2004 Housekeeping Stuff –Coffee, Lunch, Start and End Times –Fire exits, toilets, mobile phones –Breakout sessions –Speaker time-slots Looking Back, Pushing Forward? –Some *extra* stuff you might want to remember, some you might want to forget! –No claim to comprehensiveness on either count…

WIDWISAWN –COSMIC Hits Perth: Electric Connections 2003 –Collections and collaboration in the Scottish information environment Archives, Libraries, Museums: possibilities for co-operation within the environment of the global information infrastructure, or, Wee countries wi' big ideas. –Martyn Wade on the National Library of Scotland, its strategy and enthusiasm for collaboration –CASS: The Collaborative Academic Store for Scotland Pilot Preserving and Maintaining Availability of Print Material. The Role of Repository Libraries: The 2nd International Conference on Repository Libraries - A Report The Home Nations: the Scottish Collaborative Ethos News Item: Scottish Declaration of Open Access Planned –Who Is Doing What In Scotland And What’s Needed

Points of Note Information Scotland Online COSMIC - SCI, R&D Plan, Shared Services Scottish Common Information Environment A common look and feel for the SCIE HaIRST Experimental Harvester Scottish Terminologies Pilot COSMIC Closed Access on TikiWiki

Coordination and Management: To guide strategy, policy, planning, infrastructure design & development, training, institutional representation etc | Implemented via COSMIC and existing or new groups. Research & Development: Technical and non-technical work to progress the infrastructure in line with an agreed joint R&D plan | Undertaken by participating groups or institutions | Backed by COSMIC Funding Processes: T o coordinate bids for existing funds and influence future funded R&D programmes Local User Environments User services, including Independent portals utilising mix of local and central services | Local control of some shared service functions via staff portal | User needs assessment Shared Central Services Cross-searchable catalogue | Collection and collection strength databases | Portal landscaper | Scottish Distributed Digital library| E-journals service |Terminolo gies server | ILL & DD | Authentication Interoperability Forum Advice and training on standards and their implementation | Inclusive seamless access to global information services | JISC & Resource IE compatibility| Scottish web presence Collaborative Activities On collecting and cataloguing, on purchase and storage, on digitisation and course development, on user & staff training,, on quality control, and so on Professional Support Current awareness and general support services for staff via online facilities for professionals, lists, journals and e-journals, conferences and meetings, professional groups, staff collaborative collecting portal Feedback from Research & Practice The Scottish Cooperative Infrastructure Management and R&D of Online and Offline: