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Technische Universität München

IATUL

SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS

PROGRAMME

IATUL Meeting Krakow November 2007

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

MUNICH UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY LIBRARYREINER KALLENBORN


“The International Association of Scientific and Technological University Libraries is an international forum for the exchange of ideas relevant to librarianship in technological universities throughout the world”.



IATUL Mission statement

”The main objective of IATUL is to provide a forum where library directors and senior managers can meet to exchange views on matters of current significance and to provide an opportunity for them to develop a collaborative approach to solving problems”.


• IATUL is a professional association providing a worldwide network to exchange ideas and experience on a leadership level



Motivation

• There are issues special to scientific and technological university libraries

• IATUL wants to encourage international cooperation, providing a new level of communication beyond the IATUL annual conference

• Combined efforts on a particular subject area can result in a high level of synergy to the benefit of an international community


• Each task force will focus on a particular subject area and define its own terms of reference, together with long and short term goals



Concept

• Following a call for expressions of interest in involvement, members are appointed by the IATUL Board for a period of two years, which may be renewed.

• Task forces are chaired by senior librarians who are appointed by the IATUL Board and will report to the Board. The task force chairman coordinates the interaction between group members




Concept

• Special interest groups will be encouraged to present the results of their endeavour to the annual conference

• Topics discussed by the task forces, and suggestions resulting from their expertise, may act as starting points for projects within the framework of the IATUL Cross Country Cooperation Programme

• The standard means of communication for Special Interest Groups will be E-Mail and telephone conferencing.


Information Competence Group



Suggested Groups

Library Construction, Architecture and Restoration of Library Buildings Group

Metadata and Institutional Repository Group

Virtual Library and Open Access Group


Organisation Development and Quality Management Group (SIG-LOQUM)



Established Group

Expressions of interest in involvement:

Europe: 6Africa: 0America: 1Asia: 1Australia: 3


Compilation of descriptions of QM-systems, relevant for libraries



Suggested issues that might be dealt with in SIG-LOQUM

Concept for mutual auditing of libraries with similar structure and size

Compilation of a description of organisational structures in libraries

Concepts of SIG-LOQUM support for libraries due to introducing a QM-system

Guidelines for analysis and improvement of library organisation

Team oriented processes

Budgeting and Fundraising




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