New member

I recently joined the JIBS User Group Committee and enjoyed the recent meeting I attended. The group is very active, experienced at running events with members engaged with a range of professional issues. The group is looking for an additional Committee member, preferably from further education. 


At the University of Greenwich we are involved in a number of collaborations with partner colleges and the partner colleges librarians group, meets regularly. After emailing them I've already had a response from a librarian at Greenwich Community College who would like to join the Committee which is a really good start.


Nadine Edwards

New member - short thoughts

As mentioned in the last post, I (Catherine Robertson) am a new member of the JIBS committee group and it is a very active group indeed!

So far I have started to investigate locations in Birmingham for a JIBS meeting (I have my fingers crossed for Winterbourne as it’s beautiful in the summer) and am trying to keep abreast of the emails flying about regarding the annual conference topic. As it stands I am 10 days away from my wedding(!) but when I’m back from honeymoon I’ll be able to give the emails the attention they fully deserve J. I am looking forward to getting fully involved asap!

A few changes at JIBS User Group

Following our AGM in December, the committee has had a few changes. The rest of us thanked Sue Cumberpatch for her hard work over the last 3 years as Chair, and the major contribution she has made to the work that the JIBS User Group does. Sue will stay on the committee for the next year at least. I have now taken over as Chair, and Louise Cole takes over as Vice Chair. Other committee roles are taken by James Caudwell who takes over as secretary and June Hedges who continues as Treasurer.

Liz Stevenson, Ian Mayfield and Roger Hines have all now stepped down from the committee, but will continue as JIBS advisors. They have all made significant contributions to the work the JIBS User Group does, and we will miss them all at committee meetings. But we welcome some new faces: Nadine Edwards, University of Greenwich; Julie Hamley, University of West of England and Catherine Robertson, University of Birmingham. The other change that occurred last year, was that Joan Bird stepped down as the Research Council representative, and was replaced by Maggie Johnston from Rothamsted Research . We look forward to working with them all in the future.

We are already planning our summer workshop, and will release details as soon as they are available.

Slides from December 2010 JIBS event

Thanks to all who attended our workshop:

Working together in difficult times: strategies for e-resource budgeting, negotiation and collection review

Thanks especially to our speakers, all of whom bravely battled the elements to be there and gave very interesting presentations. Slides from the event can now be found on the JIBS website.

Next JIBS event: "Working together in difficult times: strategies for e-resource budgeting, negotiation and collection review" (York, 2nd Dec)

Our next JIBS event will be looking at the highly topical area of how academic libraries respond to dramatic funding cuts in the "Age of Austerity".

How can we negotiate better deals from publishers? Is there a role for greater collaboration?

The workshop will be held at the King's Manor in York, on Thursday 2nd December 2010.

Speakers include: Sally Curry (Research Information Network); Jill Taylor-Roe (NESLi2); Tony Kidd (SHEDL) and Martin Gill (University of Leeds).

The JIBS AGM will take place at lunchtime and this year we are pleased to welcome the winner of the JIBS student prize 2010: Nicky Ransom, who will give a short presentation based on her dissertation.

For more details about this event or to book a place:
http://www.jibs.ac.uk/events/workshops/work2gether/programme.htm

JIBS Ovid enhancement group - minutes available

The minutes of the meeting of Ovid enhancement group held 9th July 2010 can be found at:
http://www.jibs.ac.uk/liaison/OVIDSP/minutes.html

JIBS-Ebsco Enhancement Meeting - Minutes

The minutes of the last meeting are now available on the JIBS website at
Ebsco Minutes for June 30th 2010

"Where now for resource licensing"? summary

Catherine Parker (University of Huddersfield / JIBS committee member) has written a summary of the JIBS/EduServ workshop "Where now for resource licensing"? held earlier this month:
http://www.jibs.ac.uk/events/workshops/licensing/licensingsummaryparker.pdf

Andy Powell's summary of JIBS/Eduserv Event

Further to Sue's summary of Wednesday's event, you may be interested to read this version by Andy Powell of Eduserv:

http://efoundations.typepad.com/efoundations/2010/06/where-next-for-resource-licensing.html

Where now for resource licensing? - slides available

The speakers' presentations from Wednesday's JIBS/EduServ workshop "Where now for resource licensing?" are now available at:
http://www.jibs.ac.uk/events/intro.html