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Administrative MattersHaving promised to try to improve the frequency of the Newsletter, we are delighted to have achieved a six-month frequency at last. We hope we can keep it up!! 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 and now has little boy, Reuben. 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. Interlending newsQuestionnaires 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. If you have received a questionnaire please, please fill it in and return it to us so that we can include an up to date picture of document delivery from your country in general and your library in particular. Please contact us if you have not received a questionnaire and would like one. ProjectsProjects continue to be funded by outside organisations and we are constantly looking for other organisations with which to work. Suggestions would be welcome!! Library TwinningThe library twinning project, funded by Unesco, has been slow to get started, but we should be able to begin to develop the database in the next three months. The aim behind the project is to establish a focal point to which all libraries can turn when seeking partners for a twinning arrangement. The database will hold information relating to each library's specific areas of interest such as staff exchanges, exchange of material, training and specific expertise, as well as basic information relating to the library and country itself. One key element of library twinning is that all libraries should aim both to give to the partnership as well as benefiting from it. Details about the project, and information on how to register your interest in establishing a twinning arrangement will be publicised widely in due course. The IFLA Voucher SchemeThe 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 are 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 trial is being run i n 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 CataloguesA 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 catalogue of union catalogues! This is a joint project with the IFLA Section on Serial Publications, Section on Bibliography, Section on Document Delivery & 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. MURIELThe 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 enables 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. COPEARMSThe first COPEARMS Special Interest Group (SIG) Meeting was held last April in London. The meeting attracted a lot of interest from many different sectors of the information industry which led to some lively debate. The proceedings are available from the IFLA Office. The COPEARMS (Co-Ordinating Project for Electronic Authors' Right Management System) Project began at the end of last year. The COPEARMS consortium, in which the IFLA UAP Programme is a partner, will work with other European Commission co-financed projects working in the intellectual property rights (IPR) area. 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 not 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. IMPRIMATURThe 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 is part of the COPEARMS /IMPRIMATUR Joint Liaison Committee, and is also involved in the IMPRIMATUR project as The British Library Copyright Office. (CITED) Copyright in Transmitted Electronic DocumentsAlthough 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 and 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 in 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 MeetingsFastDoc Workshop on Electronic Document Ordering and DeliveryThe Office made a presentation at this workshop, held in Patras Greece, 4-6 March, about the electronic copyright management system projects with which we are involved. The workshop was very interesting and what emerged was the feeling that electronic document delivery is no longer a technical problem - by and large the technology is already developed - but a copyright problem. Rights holders are not convinced that their work will be protected if stored digitally and are therefore reluctant to allow their work to be stored in this way. It is hoped that the projects being conducted in the area of electronic copyright will encourage rights holders to give permission for their work to be stored and transmitted electronically. The Programme Director attended the Unesco/ICSU joint conference on Electronic Publishing in Science which was held in Paris during February. The UAP view on electronic archives and access to materials was clearly put. The Programme Director visited Turkey in March to give the Keynote Address to the Turkish Library Association conference in Ankara and run a workshop on copyright. He then flew to Istanbul for talks with the Turkish Publishers Association to discuss publisher-library relations. UAP WorkshopsPreliminary plans are being made for a UAP workshop in Santiago for Latin America but news about funding is awaited. IFLA ConferencesPlanning is also underway for a conference on libraries and economic growth. This will reflect some of the themes in the Beijing conference but concentrate on the role of the library in promoting economic growth, whether this is a valid role, what evidence there is for it and how can it be achieved. The conference will be held in Ljubljana in April 1997 and is sponsored by the Slovenian Government, Unesco, EBLIDA, the UAP Office and, hopefully, some commercial organisations as well. The General Conference in Beijing will be a busy time for the Office. A pre-conference seminar on Copyright is being held in Tianjin. Details of this can be obtained from the UAP Office. The Programme Director will also contribute to the Workshop on copyright being organised by the Document Delivery and Interlending Section and also to the Section's open session on charging for document delivery. We hope to see many old friends there and make some news ones! RepresentationThe 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 the Trustees. This project is 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 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 availability 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 already taken place. A major conference on "fair use" is planned for the Autumn and other discussions will continue on a regular basis to try to reach a consensus. PublicationsThe Proceedings of the 4th Interlending and Document Supply International Conference held in Calgary in June 1995 have now been published. Copies are 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. 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. 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 Fax GuidelinesThese were recently published in Italian. The English version may be obtained from the Office. CommunicationsWhilst Sarah Keates is on maternity leave the members of the office are: Director of the UAP Programme and Head of IFLA Office for International LendingGraham Cornish Research OfficersMargaret Barwick, Officer AdministratorSandra Rayner The Office is fully linked to the Internet system. All staff can be reached on a general Email address IFLA@bl.uk and individual members of the team can be 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). The UAP newsletter can be received electronically. Contact the general address above.
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