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Annual Report 1995
Graham P Cornish
Programme Director
Introduction
As always, this has been a busy year for UAP. Involvement in
project work has continued to increase; the voucher scheme goes
from strength to strength and partnerships with other
organisations continue to flourish.
Interlending news
One of the Programme's most important publications over the years
as been the Guide to Centres of interlending & Copying. Because
these two activities are not necessarily undertaken by the same
organisation any more it has been decided to split the Guide into
two parts: one for lending and one for copying, the latter to
include centres and commercial document suppliers. The first
volume, a Guide to Centres of International Lending, was
published in late 1995. Questionnaires have been sent out for the
information needed to produce the Guide to Centres of
International Document Delivery, in which it was intended to
include commercial document suppliers as well as libraries.
However, the response from libraries, even after a chasing
letter, has been poor and at present we do not have sufficient
new information to publish the volume.
Projects
Projects continue to be funded by outside organisations and we
are constantly looking for other organisations with which to
work.
- The IFLA Voucher Scheme
The IFLA Voucher Scheme continues to grow, with at least 75
libraries already participating. Several have already purchased
a second supply of vouchers, which is great evidence that the
vouchers are not only being bought but a re being put to good use
in paying for those international interlibrary transactions. The
list of participating libraries now includes the Russian State
Library, UB/TIB Hannover, National Library of Canada, The State
Library of South Africa, National Library of Australia, National
Library of New Zealand, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The
Netherlands, Central Technical Library of Ljubljana, Slovenia,
and the British Library Document Supply Centre. Many more
university, public and other libraries have also agreed to
participate. One of the aims behind the project has always been
to make it easier for all libraries to participate in
international interlending and not just those in developed
countries. To this end we have been seeking funding to establish
trials in a number of regions of the world. A small trials is
being run in a number of libraries in West Africa, but we have
been less successful in other areas. A leaflet describing the
Scheme is available from the Office, in English, French or
German. A list of participating libraries, and information about
how the Scheme works, is also available on IFLANET, IFLA's
Internet server. The list can be found at
http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/p1/partcpnt.htm. Information is
also provided on the IFLA-L discussion list from time to time.
- World Directory of Union Catalogues
A new project in which the Office is involved aims to create a
directory of all the Union Catalogues in existence around the
world: in other words, a union catalogues of union catalogues!
This is a joint project with the IFLA Section on Serial
Publications, Section on Bibliography, Section on Document Deli
very & Interlending and the ISBN and ISSN International Centres.
The directory will include all national or international union
catalogues which are still current. We will not include
information on closed catalogues nor those catalogues which cover
only one area of a country. Special subject catalogues will be
considered for inclusion, as long as they are national in
coverage. Data will be gathered initially by means of a
questionnaire sent to all national libraries and many other union
catalogue centres. If you are involved in producing or
maintaining a union catalogue in your country, you might like to
contact Sara Gould who will then send you a questionnaire.
- MURIEL
The MURIEL (Multimedia Education System for Librarians
Introducing Remote Interactive Processing of Electronic
Documents) Project is half way through its lifetime. Various
reports and specifications have been produced for the European
Commission and a prototype system has been produced. This enable
s courseware about librarianship to be inserted into the system
and the use of ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) means
that different authors on remote sites can work on the same
document simultaneously. During 1996 much more content will be
added to the MURIEL system, which will then be tested in
international field trials. Information about the project will
be disseminated at conferences and in journal articles. A paper
is to be given at the Ed -Media conference in Boston, USA in June
and this will be published in the proceedings of the conference.
- COPEARMS
The COPEARMS (co-ordinating Project for Electronic Authors' Right
Management System) began at the end of last year. The COPEARMS
consortium, of which the IFLA UAP Programme is a partner, will
work with other European Commission co-financed projects working
in the intellectual property rights (IPR) ar ea. The work of the
COPEARMS Project will encourage the development of interoperable
IPR electronic copyright management systems (ECMS). Whilst
systems are being developed in isolation effectiveness is lost
due to barriers caused by different systems not being able to
talk to each other. Without effective ECMS, the potential of
electronically stored information to increase access will no t
be fully realised. A major part of the work of the IFLA UAP
Programme in the project is the organisation of a series of
special interest group meetings and workshops throughout Europe.
The first is due to be held at the end of April in London, the
next will probably be in June in Brussels. The UAP programme
would be interested to hear from anyone working in the IPR ECMS
field (particular in the standards or technical fields) who would
be interested in joining a special interest group.
- IMPRIMATUR
The COPEARMS Project will be working closely with the IMPRIMATUR
(Intellectual Multimedia Property Rights Model and Terminology
for Universal Reference) project which is also co-financed by the
European Commission. The IFLA Office for UAP are part of the
COPEARMS /IMPRIMATUR Joint Liaison Committee, and are also
involved in the IMPRIMATUR project as The British Library
Copyright Office.
Copyright in Transmitted Electronic Documents (CITED)
Although this Project is now over interest in it lives on. The
work done in the CITED Project has formed the basis for other
projects including COPICAT a nd COPYSMART, both of which involve
the British Library Copyright Office. COPICAT (Copyright in
Computer Assisted Training) is coming to an end, but a
demonstrator has been developed which will be tested at
University College Dublin. Whilst the demonstrator is in place
technology students will be encouraged to break the security
mechanisms to ensure that the final product is as secure as
possible. The COPYSMART project has just begun, it will be
looking to implement an Intellectual Property Rights Management
System is a stand alone environment. Although work on these
projects is being carried out as British Library both projects
have major implications for UAP.
Conferences and Meetings
Conferences
Participation in conferences of different kinds is still seen
as a major part of the UAP work. This year staff have made
presentations at a number of meetings including an Anglo-German
conference on resourcing academic libraries (MFC nster, February
1995), The 4th. Intending & Document Supply International
Conference (Calgary, Canada, June) and the Association for
Computing Machinery Annual Conference (San Francisco, November).
One of the staff presented the late st work on the Voucher Scheme
during an international study tour of German libraries in Bamberg
(September. The voucher scheme was once again given further
exposure when a staff member presented it during a NORDINFO
conference on Interlibrary co-operation at Elsinor in October.
The 4th. Interlending & Document supply International Conference
was organised jointly by the Office, the Canadian Library
Association and the National Library of Canada. Once gain the
established tradition of high quality papers, participation and
catering were upheld.
UAP Workshops
A highly successful workshop was held in Bangkok for countries
in the reg ion. Representatives from Thailand, Laos, Myanmar,
Vietnam, Cambodia, Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia attended. A
high level of discussion was achieve d and subsequently the Thai
government are investigating the setting up of a regional
document delivery centre in Bangkok. The Office had a heavy
programme during the Istanbul conference and participated in the
Workshop on document delivery, the Open Forum, the work of the
Standing committee for Document Delivery & Interlending, the
Co-ordinating Board f or Division V and maintained a fairly
constant presence during the many post er sessions.
Conference planning
Considerable effort was devoted during the year to organising the
Tianjin Seminar on Copyright which will immediately precede the
General Conference in Beijing. Other events which have taken up
some planning time include the proposed conference on libraries
and economic growth in Ljubljana in April 1997, the Electronic
Management Systems Conference to be held n he London School of
Economics in April 1996, the 5th. Interlending & Document Supply
International Conference in Arhus in August 1997 and the
Barcelona workshop on Copyright management in April 1996.
Representation
The Share the Vision project, to improve public library services
for visually impaired people in the UK, has now become a limited
company and registered as a charity. The Programme Director is
one of late Trustees. This project i s also linked to project
Testlab which aims to design a workstation for visually impaired
people. Funded by the European Union, it also has plans for a
National Union Catalogue of Alternative Formats and a Pilot
Interlending Project ( PIP) for these materials. The Office has
continues to play an active role in the `Opportunities in Europe
Group', a group of library and information professionals seeking
to participate in the development of library and information
services throughout Europe. Graham Cornish is Secretary of the
Group and Judy Watkins is Treasurer. The Office is still a member
of the Information for Development Co-ordinating Committee
(IDCC). Representation still continues on various copyright
committees, particularly in the UK, and a careful watch is kept
on legal trends which may limit avail ability and access. The
ECUP (European Copyright Users Platform) which is being sponsored
by the European Commission through EBLIDA (European Bureau for
Library, Information and Documentation Associations) has now
entered its second phase and discussions with authors
representatives, collecting societies and publishers have al
ready taken place. A major conference on "fair use" is planned
for the Autumn 1996 and other discussions will continue on a
regular basis to try to reach a consensus.
Publications
The UAP Newsletter can be received electronically. Contact the
general address at the end of this report. It is also published
twice a year in paper for m. The Proceedings of the 4th
Interlending and Document Supply International Conference held
in Calgary in June 1995 have now been prepared for publication.
Copies will be available from the IFLA UAP Office price A315.
National Libraries of the World: an address list is updated
regularly and is available free of charge. It can be accessed
through the Programme' web-site at the National Library of Canada
The papers from the Bangkok Workshop have been published as From
Palm Leaves to PCs. They are available from the Office at A35.00.
A complete list of publications is available from the Office on
request. The Office has also continued to publish semi-annual
reviews and bibliographies in Interlending and Document Supply.
It has also continued to compile the Miscellany section of the
journal. This contract funds one of the part-time posts in the
Office. Staff have also contributed a number of articles to
professional journals in many countries on UAP, copyright law,
electronic management systems, payment mechanisms and document
delivery generally. IFLA Guidelines for the Use of FAX in
Interlending These were recently published in Italian. The
English version may be obtained from the Office.
Personnel and communications
There have been some changes in staffing, mostly temporary. David
Bradbury has decided that, because of his increased
responsibilities within the British Library, he must step down
as Programme Director. Graham Cornish will take over this title
and role. Sarah Keates has taken maternity leave. Sarah hopes to
return to the Office in the Summer. Meanwhile Judy Watkins has
taken over much of Sarah's work, especially on EC electronic
copyright projects, and Pauline Connolly has stepped into Judy's
shoes. We welcome Sandra Rayner to the Office to take over
Pauline's work. Whilst Sarah Keates is on maternity leave the
members of the office are: Director of the UAP Programme and Head
of IFLA Office for International Lending, Graham Cornish Research
Officers: Margaret Barwick, Pauline Connolly Sara Gould and Judy
Watkins Officer Administrator Sandra Rayner The Office is fully
linked to the Internet system. All staff can be reach ed on a
general Email address IFLA@bl.uk and individual members of the
team can b e reached by using the formula:
firstname.lastname@bl.uk.
The General Office telephone number is +44 1937 546255 (which is
also the number for Judy Watkins). Other numbers are: 546123
(Graham Cornish); 546465 (Margaret Barwick and Sandra Rayner);
and 546254 (Sara Gould and Pauline Connolly). During 1995 Graham
Cornish was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Information
Scientists. He is one of the relatively few who hold both this
distinction and that of Fellow of the Library Association.
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