License group for Education Librarians (LUB)
Chairwoman Karin Lodberg
2008 was a year of many new initiatives within the LUB area. New consultants have been employed in the DEFF secretariat and at the same time an exchange and reduction in the number of representatives has taken place due to a merging of BITS (libraries in technical colleges) and the Association of Business Colleges who now have only one representative and one substitute.
LUB has in 2008 been preparing for the extension by the end of the year with 135 upper secondary schools, eight VUCs (adult education) and 17 SOSU (basic social and health education programmes) schools. In this connection LUB has been in touch with the Ministry of Education and been visited by consultant Peter Rubeck with a view to a clarification of possibilities for funding and development in the many institutions, a large part of which do not employ any professional librarians.
The consortium day and LUB/LUF theme day (conference for Danish suppliers of e-books) planned for autumn 2008 has been postponed due to a congestion of events dealing with the same subject.
Discussion of possible license acquisitions, decision on the purchase of licenses that have been in a test phase as well as current adaptation of action plans have been regular items on group meeting agendas.
The transition to common electronic DEFF resources in the country’s largest university college has been a success, and the model has been used and will continue to be used subsequently. Furthermore, LUB has participated in Roskilde University Library’s charting of Danish licenses in research and education libraries.
A list of license requests, prepared in 2007, has been evaluated and deemed suitable for qualifying both LUB’s and LUF’s decision concerning license requests received, and the DEFF secretariat has worked out new procedures for responsibility, agreement on and payment of licenses.
In 2008 LUB has focused particularly on the marketing of licenses in relation to instructors and students, and work has begun on the accumulation of marketing initiatives tested in various educational institutions. These initiatives will now be processed with a view to being placed on www.deff.dk as ideas catalogue for common inspiration and usage.
VIA University College took steps to a meeting between DEFF and the university colleges to discuss the handling of statistics. In this connection LUB has voiced a request for the statistics to be prepared centrally in order to ensure unambiguity and professionalism as well as confidence in the results. This need is reinforced because of the many new institutions that are to be included in DEFF’s activities from the turn of the year – and which completely lack traditions for the collection of statistics data.
LUB has thus prepared for the coming year’s tasks and new challenges.
This page forms part of the publication 'Annual report from Denmark’s Electronic Research Library 2008' as chapter 10 of 17
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