{"id":169,"date":"2008-03-05T17:13:37","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T00:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?p=169"},"modified":"2008-03-05T17:13:37","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T00:13:37","slug":"curl-metamorphosises-into-rluk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2008\/03\/curl-metamorphosises-into-rluk\/","title":{"rendered":"CURL metamorphosises into RLUK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anne Poulson, the new Executive Director of what was CURL and will shortly be &#8216;RLUK&#8217; (Research Libraries UK) has been presenting at Imperial this morning about the future direction for CURL. The new Strategic Plan is now on the CURL website:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.curl.ac.uk\/about\/documents\/RLUKStrategicPlan2008-2011.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.curl.ac.uk\/about\/documents\/RLUKStrategicPlan2008-2011.pdf\">http:\/\/www.curl.ac.uk\/about\/documents\/RLUKStrategicPlan2008-2011.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Definitely some interesting points about what RLUK is going to be doing in the future &#8211; one that leapt out at me (probably because its what I associate most closely with CURL), is the &#8216;Resource Discovery and Delivery&#8217; part, which indicates that CURL is eager to work with a wide range of bodies &#8211; both commercial and public &#8211; to be part of a conversation about the creation of a &#8216;integrated national discovery to delivery service&#8217;. The emphasis was clearly on being part of the conversation, rather than being the body that delivered the service, but that funding had to exist somewhere to make this happen.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Anne is going round CURL members to do the same presentation, but the new RLUK website should be launching shortly, and there is to be a conference in October (22nd-24th, no further details as yet) which will be an very open conference intending to include academics and staff from across library services &#8211; sounds like it could be interesting &#8211; watch the website for more details&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anne Poulson, the new Executive Director of what was CURL and will shortly be &#8216;RLUK&#8217; (Research Libraries UK) has been presenting at Imperial this morning about the future direction for CURL. The new Strategic Plan is now on the CURL website: http:\/\/www.curl.ac.uk\/about\/documents\/RLUKStrategicPlan2008-2011.pdf Definitely some interesting points about what RLUK is going to be doing in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}