Manchester Metropolitan University

Linking Digital Libraries and Virtual Learning Environments: Evaluation and Review (LinkER)

The LinkER Project, being undertaken by the same consortium that is carrying out the Formative Evaluation of the DNER (EDNER), will

a) produce a review report summarising recent developments, achievements and trends relevant to the area of digital library and VLE linkage (updating and broadening the INSPIRAL final report)
b) provide formative evaluation across the full set of Theme A and Theme B projects
c) identify important emerging issues, innovative solutions and exemplary case studies
d) develop and validate guidelines for other institutions, focussing particularly on cultural, organisational, technical and pedagogical issues
e) produce interim and final reports capturing key elements of lessons learned and synthesising conclusions for key audiences/stakeholders
f) disseminate its reports widely within the community.

Partners: CSALT, Lancaster University
URL: NONE
Contact: Professor Peter Brophy, Director, CERLIM, [email protected]
Dates: October 2002 - July 2003
Funding: JISC �49,017

Library Networking Impact Toolkit for a User-Driven Environment II (LONGITUDE II)

The Project is designed to develop a toolkit which can:

• be adopted by all public libraries to assess the impact over time of their electronic services;
• be used by Resource and other stakeholders to demonstrate long-term impact of NOF funding for the People's Network;
• contribute to Resource's ongoing programme of impact assessment for the cultural sector (Key Objective 3 of Resource's Annual Workplan 2002/03), and to the work programme for Building on Success: an action plan for public libraries and
• inform ICT-related elements of Resource's work on learning standards and other appropriate elements of Key Objective 2 of the Workplan.

Objectives supporting these aims are to:

• undertake realistic pilot-testing and revision of the toolkit so that its effectiveness and ease of use by library staff can be established;
• provide guidance to libraries on its potential use, particularly in tandem with other assessment programmes; and
• assess its further application for museums and archives, and to the emerging common information environment.

Partners: Birmingham Public Libraries; Cheshire Public Libraries
URL: NONE
Contact: Professor Peter Brophy, Director, CERLIM, [email protected]
Dates: November 2002 - July 2004
Funding: Resource �29,991

Cultural Objects in Networked Environments (COINE)

COINE will develop and evaluate structured environments to enable local communities to record, publish and share digitised objects of their choice which are representative of their own interests. Part-funded by the European Commission under the Information Society Technologies Programme, the project involves partners in the UK, Ireland, Spain, Greece and Poland and has a total value in excess of �1.7million..

URL: NONE
Contact: Professor Peter Brophy, Director, CERLIM, [email protected]
Dates: February 2002 � July 2004
Funding: European Commission

EDNER

The Evaluation is a continuation of the EDNER Project (2000-2003) but with a wider remit. It will focus on: the pedagogical impact of the Information Environment (IE) strategy and development (IE S&D) in both higher and further education in the UK; the IE S&Ds impact on scholarly communication and on working practices in Higher and Further Education; the effects of IE S&D on the planning and management of institutional IEs; stakeholder perceptions of the value of IE S&D; the achievements of the IE in securing and promoting high quality information content and services; the synergies between the JISC IE and the broader (common) IE, including IE developments outside the UK; and the achievements of the JISC IE in promoting innovation, including the articulation of a sustainable and scalable information architecture.

URL: www.cerlim.ac.uk/main/projects.html
Contact: Professor Peter Brophy [email protected]
Dates: 2003-4
Funding: £192,060

MARTINI

�Managed Access to Real-Time Institutional Networked Information� (MARTINI) is led by the University of East Anglia as part of the JISC 7/99 Managed Learning Environments programme. Taking its theme as �Any time, any place, any where�, MARTINI aims to provide an integrated information delivery service for students. CERLIM is undertaking formal, independent evaluation

URL: NONE
Contact: Professor Peter Brophy, Director, CERLIM, [email protected]
Dates: 2001-3
Funding: JISC

NOVA Non-Visual Access to the Digital Library

The NoVA Project seeks to develop an understanding of serial searching in non-serial digital library environments, with particular reference to retrieval of information by blind and visually-impaired people.

URL: http://www.cerlim.ac.uk/projects/nova.htm
Contact: Jenny Craven, Research Fellow. [email protected]
Dates: 1 July 2000 � 30 June 2002
Funding: Resource

PULMAN

PULMAN is a �Network of Excellence� linking together 26 countries across Europe to share expertise in a wide range of public library issues. CERLIM�s role is to develop Digital Guidelines Manuals to cover digitisation projects and performance measurement, the latter in collaboration with MRL Associates.

URL: http://www.pulmanweb.org
Contact: Professor Peter Brophy, Director, CERLIM, [email protected]
Dates: 2001-2
Funding: European Commission