Paul Stainthorp Schrödinger's cataloguer

I’ve had a useful meeting with my new boss to agree my priorities for the next 12 months of development work in the Library. Here are my top 4, in order of importance.

1. Discovery selection & implementation;
2. JISC Orbital project (0.3FTE) – based mainly in CERD until March 2013;
3. Possible JISC-funded Jerome follow-on work;
4. Development of the Lincoln Repository – working closely with the Library Institutional Repository Officer (BJ), the Research & Enterprise Office + the subject librarians on the following areas:
   • Metadata workflow and service development
   • Advocacy/training
   • Building a “Research Showcase”
   • CRIS-like development, bibliometrics, and supporting the REF
   • Developing staff profiles on the University’s website
   • E-theses
   • Helpdesk integration (…possibly)

The following are projects—part of the current Library I.T. strategy—that I’ll contribute to but probably won’t lead, and/or work that’s going on in the background that I need to stay abreast of:

1. Reading list development (project);
2. Authentication (project);
3. Participation in various JISC working groups as well as UKCoRR and LISN;
4. Working with the Acquisitions team on new team rôles/areas of work;
5. Monitoring and guiding e-resource management (ERM), authentication, and responding to user problems (this area of work will be looked after day-to-day by the Library (E-resources) Assistant (EV), supported by other staff, as part of the cover for my JISC project work);
6. Supporting the subject librarian for technology in a review of the Library’s presence on the University Portal;
7. Supporting the subject librarians in promoting and supporting the use of RefWorks 2.0;
8. Supporting the HELS in administering copyright/digitisation services and the use of Blackboard.
9. Initiating a new CALM user group.
10. Co-ordinating LIG (the Library Innovation Group).
11. Participating in the work of LNCD.

G’won then: what have I forgotten about?

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