In order to progress the collaborative agenda for research support provision and provide a suitable national framework for collaboration a new, high level, strategic body, the Research Support Libraries Group has now been formed. It is chaired by Sir Brian Follett and had its first meeting in July 2001. Members of the group include senior members of the library profession and of the academic and research community. The remit of the new body, in general terms, is to advise the HE Funding Councils, the British Library and the national libraries of Scotland and Wales on strategies for promoting collaboration in the development and provision of library collections, their long-term management, and services to support research.
The group's work will be carried out over a period of fifteen months. Its aim will be to produce a strategic vision for the next ten years that will ensure UK researchers have world class access to research materials, in paper or in electronic form. The group will make recommendations for structures and actions to achieve the vision, and for a funding mechanism to ensure that the changes are delivered.
Details of, and documents, relating to the work of the Research Support Libraries Group will be made available via a HEFCE maintained website.
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Last updated 24 October 2001