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CPD25 Task Group 2:
Quality Standards and Legal Frameworks Task Group
Report to Steering
Group Meeting 30th March 2011
Task Group Membership
Robert Atkinson (Chair) (Birkbeck)
Sian Blake (Kingston)
Susan Howard (Imperial)
Matthew Lawson (Middlesex)
Anne Pietsch (Roehampton)
Vicky Robertson (School of Pharmacy)
Kristy Widdicombe (University College for the Creative Arts)
– on maternity leave
Meetings of Task
Group 2
Task Group 2 has met twice since the last meeting of the
Steering Group on the 25th November 2010. Task Group 2 met on 8th
December 2010 and 16th March 2011.
The next meeting will take place in early June 2011.
Events that have
taken place since the last meeting of the Steering Group on 25th November 2010:
·
Technology giveth and the law taketh away (or
makes extremely difficult): copyright and licensing session (23/2/11 – half
day):
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Organiser: Matthew Lawson
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Speakers:
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Kate Vasili (Copyright Officer at Middlesex
University)
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Sue Hurley (Electronic Resources Manager at
Middlesex University
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Charles Oppenheim
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Number attended: 37
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Employment Law (23/3/11 – full day) :
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Organiser: Robert Atkinson
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Trainer: Philip Lott
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Number attended: 12
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Feedback: excellent
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Assistive Technology for Visually Impaired
People (25/3/11 – half day):
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Organiser: Vicky Robertson
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Number booked on the event: 14
Visits since the last Steering Group
Meeting on 25th November 2010:
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Imperial College Library (6/12/10) and (26/1/11)
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Organiser: Matthew Lawson
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Number attended: 15 for each visit
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Feedback: excellent
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The Freemasons’ Library (2/3/11)
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Organiser: Vicky Robertson
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Leader of the visit: Susan Howard
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Number attended: 12
Cpd25 Task Group 2 :
Programme for 2010-11
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Session/Visit
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Details
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Date/Month
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Organiser
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Theme identified by
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Employment
Law
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Full day
training event
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23/3/11
14 booked
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Robert
Atkinson
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Group
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Lies,
damned lies and statistics
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Half day
event on the use of management information
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TBA
Speakers
arranged
Need to
find date (June)
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Matthew
Lawson
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Group
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Assistive
Technology and VLEs
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Half day
event
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TBA
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Anne
Pietsch
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Group
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Assistive
technology for visually impaired people
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Half day
event
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25/3/11
14 booked
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Vicky Robertson
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Group
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Copyright
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Half day
event using case studies
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23/2/11
37 people
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Matthew
Lawson
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Group
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Data
Protection for library staff
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Half day
event using case studies
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31/3/11
7 booked
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Vicky
Robertson
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Group
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Negotiating
skills
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Half day
event
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TBA
University of London
Careers Group will be doing the training in negotiation with them
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Robert
Atkinson
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Group
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The London Library
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Half day
visit
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TBA
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Robert
Atkinson
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Group
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Imperial College Library
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Half day
visit to look at new refurbishment
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6/12/10
26/1/11
15 went
on each visit
Excellent
feedback
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Matthew
Lawson
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Group –
following the identification of the theme of use of space at the Planning Day
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The
Freemasons Library
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Half day
visit
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2/3/11
12 went
Susan
Howard led the visit
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Vicky
Robertson
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Group
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Pentonville
Prison Library
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Half day
visit
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25/08/10
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Vicky
Robertson
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Group –
theme of Prison libraries
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City University Library
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Half day
visit
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TBA
This
might run in July otherwise will be held over to next year
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Matthew
Lawson
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Group –
following the identification of the theme of use of space at the Planning Day
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Lincoln’s Inn Library
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Half day
visit
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24/11/10
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Robert
Atkinson
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Group –
theme of the libraries of the Inns of Court
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A
commercial law firm library
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Half day
visit
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16/5/11
Field,
Fisher, Waterhouse
Talk on
working for a law firm by library manager
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Sian Blake
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Group –
aligned to the remit of the Group
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The
Metropolitan Collection
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Half day
visit
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12/11/10
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Anne
Pietsch
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Group
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The School of Pharmacy Library
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Half day
visit
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12/4/11
12 people
booked
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Vicky
Robertson
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Group –
following the identification of the theme of use of space at the Planning Day
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Robert
Atkinson (chair)
22nd
March 2011
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