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Empowering staff and officers at RLUK to collaborate effectively, capture frontline developments in research libraries, and improve communications through user-friendly tools and platforms.
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New RLUK web services:Engagement and Activity Mike Mertens Deputy Executive Director, RLUK
What to achieve for RLUK staff? • Encourage and allow engagement from staff beyond director level • Enable RLUK members to collaborate with each other more effectively on projects and bids • Make communications a truly two-way process • Capture and mine the front-line developments and new expertise in research libraries about everything from the Google Generation to e-books
What to achieve for RLUK Officers? • Developing future strategy and support to more closely accommodate emerging member needs • Broaden and deepen knowledge of staff expertise in member libraries, founded on a concrete evidence base • Freeing up the Executive to work both more strategically and incisively for and on behalf of the Membership • Currency and immediacy of information for RLUK members • “Access anywhere” repository of documentation
What’s New • Wiki function • Blog function • CRM software • Project Management • User-created content • Devolved control
New RLUK Communities • We need your help in identifying RLUK editors for a variety of communities in your institutions • We can offer this functionality for any project involving other RLUK members • Share and publicise freely your insights, plans, projects, views and comments – greater input – richer resource!