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June 2010: Volume 15 Issue 2
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First meeting of the UK LOCKSS Alliance Steering Committee
The newly established UK LOCKSS Alliance Steering Committee gathered for the first time in April 2010. The governance board is made up of librarians participating in the LOCKSS approach, along with a representative from JISC Collections, a representative from EDINA, and the UK LOCKSS Alliance Coordinator.
The UK LOCKSS Alliance is a co-operative organisation the goal of which is to ensure continuing access to scholarly work in ways that are sustainable over the long term.
Several activities are ongoing following the inaugural committee meeting:
- A three-year strategy is in draft that outlines objectives to establish the UK LOCKSS Alliance as a sustainable cooperative initiative to support library activity.
- UK LOCKSS Alliance members will be asked to share information on institutional preservation policies, and in particular to describe how LOCKSS is used in an operational manner.
- The Steering Committee will coordinate assessment of the deployment of LOCKSS within UK institutions and suggest feature enhancements to the developers.
- The collection development policy of the UK LOCKSS Alliance is to focus on content that is of interest to participating institutions, and that members do not feel has been cared for sufficiently. Participating institutions will play a central role in identifying this content.
The Steering Committee welcomes the participation of more UK LOCKSS Alliance members to support and contribute to these activities. To find out more, please contact edina@ed.ac.uk.