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Scope and ambition

23-Apr-08

M’colleague Michael asked this week whether the Information Futures Commission has identified any recent-ish equivalents to itself at other universities.
A related question has come up several times in the last couple of months. When we ask a senior stakeholder for an opinion about what issues the Commission should tackle, the response is often,”Well, what are [...]

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The committee’s first meeting

21-Feb-08

For a successful project, you need an effective steering committee and an influential sponsor who cares about what you’re trying to achieve in the project. Ideally the sponsor should chair the committee.
We had our first steering committee meeting today.
The sponsor/chair opened the meeting.
He tabled a single printed page, an excerpt from a book: Yes Minister’s [...]

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New year, new project

22-Jan-08

Sometimes you just get lucky.
A couple of weeks before Christmas, on my last day at work, an all-staff email announced an Information Futures Commission would start work in the new year. The Commission would develop a 10-year strategic plan for the University’s ’scholarly information’ environment — libraries, information literacy, curation of data created as a [...]

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