Preface
2008 was the last year of the DEFF steering committee’s two-year mandatory period, and the committee can look back on two productive years. A large number of projects and activities have been launched, cooperation between the participating parties has been extended and part of the foundation for a new steering committee’s strategic work has been laid.
Projects and activities
Together with a number of strategy documents an unaltered vision and mission for DEFF have provided the strategic framework for DEFF’s projects. Within this framework DEFF’s programme groups have formulated action plans which were approved by the steering committee, and the programme groups have subsequently secured project applications for projects that match the objectives of the action plans.
Over the period the following examples of important projects and activities should be noted:
- Two pilot projects concerning data wells for the use of i.a. advanced integrated search systems
- Online service with delivery of electronic images of book front covers to be used during search
- Streamlining of cataloguing and search activities through further cooperation about DanBib
- Integration of Danish libraries in OCLC’s WorldCat
- Extension of the research registration system PURE
- Open Access work i.a. through the international partnership Knowledge Exchange
- General consolidation including financial support in selected cases
- Support of information literacy through the development of the UB test
- Participation in international development of Open Source storage system Fedora.
Basis for the future work
The steering committee has in 2008 prepared the ground for DEFF’s further work by conducting an international review of DEFF, initiating an analysis of future library service to researchers and a cost-benefit analysis of alternative publishing models. Danish Universities’ memo on university libraries in Denmark from November 2008 will likewise form part of the future work in DEFF.
In conclusion it can be said that DEFF has enjoyed a remarkably satisfactory progress, and the new steering committee has therefore been provided with a solid foundation for the continued development of DEFF.
Bo Öhrström
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