Post on 17-Jan-2016
New Projects at Oxford UniversityRoger MillsEBHL TallinnMay 2006
Change amid the dreaming spires
New Vice-Chancellor• New financial system
• New divisions
• New pay scales
• New buildings
• New library staff structures
• New library management system
• New digital library
Divisional structures 2000-2005• Humanties
• Social Sciences
• Life and Environmental Sciences• Geography and the Environment• Plant Sciences inc. Forestry• Zoology inc. Ornithology• Biochemistry
• Maths and Physical Sciences
• Medicine
Divisional structures 2005-• Humanties
• Social Sciences• Geography and the Environment
• Maths, Physical and Life Sciences• Plant Sciences inc. Forestry• Zoology inc. Ornithology
• Medicine• Biochemistry
Library structure• One ‘hub’ library per division – reference
and lending
• But Geography & the Environment will be in Science – planned before divisional transfer to Social Science
• All science departmental library collections to be incorporated in hub [Radcliffe Science Library] - eventually
ELISO• Electronic Library and Information Service
for Oxford
• We are far behind Harvard – and Auckland
• ‘Catch-up’ plan – funded by savings through closing departmental libraries, reducing sites; break-even by 2010
Special Collections• New Bodleian Library (1930s) to be gutted
and re-modelled as Special Collections Library – post 2010
• http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/news/buildings/new_bodleian
• Theoretically, Plant Sciences, Forestry, Ornithology could move there
• BUT taxonomic books need to stay with herbarium, ornithology needs to stay with Edward Grey Institute
Design proposals
• The inevitable restaurant
So…• We may stay as we are…
• BUT new appointments to Sibthorpian and Sherardian Professorships pending
• Will they love libraries??????
• Or will they want the space?
Space• We haven’t got any
• So planning new depository to hold 8million+ vols
• Scheduled to open 2007
• But planning objections delaying
• http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/news/depository
The View from Boars Hill• The Oxford Problem: skylines
So in the meantime• Down the mine – old salt mines in Cheshire
(north of England)
• http://www.deepstore.com/
And more new building…• Remodelling the Radcliffe Science Library
• To include Hooke Lending Library
• Integrated stock
• And add all departmental collections
• Moving out low-use stock to depository
• Time scale 2006-7
Moving stock• Means re-classifying – no common scheme
in Oxford
• Adopted Library of Congress – not ideal but little choice for universal scheme
• Costly – budget for preparing geography collections £250,000
Moving staff – and budgets• Subject based staff teams and budgetting
• Information Services in Bio- and Environmental Sciences
• Bio- and Environmental Sciences Team (BEST)
• Bio- and Environmental Sciences Subject Consultant
• In-house services and departmental liaison
One possible version!
New LMS• VTLS Virtua
• replacing Geac
• go-live 1.9.06
• http://www2.ouls.ox.ac.uk/lms/
New Digital Library• Temporary interface (Greenstone)
• http://www2.odl.ox.ac.uk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library
Flora Graeca completed• Pilot project available now
• Full project ???July 06 (including printed vols, drawings, Fauna Graeca and Mediterranean Scenes
• Descriptive volume on Flora Graeca with extensive illustrations to be published 2007 in Treasures of the Bodleian series
• Volume on Mediterranean Scenes under consideration
Basic search facilities
• JPG images can be downloaded
• TIFF images purchased
All metadata will be searchable
And finally… New Librarian• Director of University Library Services
• Vacant Jan 2007-
• New job anyone??