What do you want? Membership Survey 2011

You'll have seen by now the short and painless survey that's gone out on the UKCoRR discussion list, and if you're a member of UKCoRR I'd ask you to spend a couple of minutes filling it in. The survey comes about from discussions at the last couple of Committee meetings about the direction UKCoRR and indeed the position we should be taking. As Chair I've certain views on what that direction should be, but I firmly believe that it's important for such a small but close knit membership body such as ourselves to be steered as much as possible; and not just at the whims of your hard working Committee.

We continue to live in interesting times as repository managers and workers. The advent of CRISes and the REF have seen us go up the visibility flagpole in many institutions, but at the same time this visibility often seems to bring with it a restriction of movement; and it's always been the flexibility and adaptability of repositories that has been one of their strongest points.

I'll be nagging/reminding you all over the coming weeks to have your say!

UKCoRR members' meeting 2011. Destination: Salford

The Committee are delighted to announce the details of the UKCoRR members' meeting 2011.

• Booking is now open!

The meeting will take place on Friday, February 25, 2011 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM (GMT), in the Conference Room of the Clifford Whitworth Library, University of Salford.

You can reserve your place at: http://ukcorr.eventbrite.com/

The event also has a page on Lanyrd.com. We hope to see you there!

A draft programme for the delay is below.

N.B. If you're interested in delivering a lightning talk on the day, please contact Dominic Tate - Dominic.Tate@rhul.ac.uk – by the end of January with ideas for 5 min presentations/updates of your repository work...

TIME	DESCRIPTION
10.00 – 10.30	Arrival and Registration
10.30 – 10.35	Opening introduction - Acting Director IS, Julie Berry
10.35 – 10.50	Committee reports/round-up
10.50 – 11.05	Coffee/tea
11.05 – 11.45	Richard Jones, Technical Lead of SWORDv2 project
11.45 – 12.15	Lightning talks
12.15 – 12.45	Josh Brown, JISC Programme Manager: E-Research - Research Information Management
12.45 – 1.30	Lunch
1.30 – 3.15	Café style networking with tables (with afternoon coffee?)
3.15 – 3.30	Coffee/tea
3.30 – 3.55	UKCoRR map
3.55 – 4.00	Concluding words and close