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New RLUK web services: Engagement and Activity. Mike Mertens Deputy Executive Director, RLUK. What to achieve for RLUK staff?. Encourage and allow engagement from staff beyond director level Enable RLUK members to collaborate with each other more effectively on projects and bids
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New RLUK web services:Engagement and Activity Mike Mertens Deputy Executive Director, RLUK
What to achieve for RLUK staff? • Encourage and allow engagement from staff beyond director level • Enable RLUK members to collaborate with each other more effectively on projects and bids • Make communications a truly two-way process • Capture and mine the front-line developments and new expertise in research libraries about everything from the Google Generation to e-books
What to achieve for RLUK Officers? • Developing future strategy and support to more closely accommodate emerging member needs • Broaden and deepen knowledge of staff expertise in member libraries, founded on a concrete evidence base • Freeing up the Executive to work both more strategically and incisively for and on behalf of the Membership • Currency and immediacy of information for RLUK members • “Access anywhere” repository of documentation
What’s New • Wiki function • Blog function • CRM software • Project Management • User-created content • Devolved control
New RLUK Communities • We need your help in identifying RLUK editors for a variety of communities in your institutions • We can offer this functionality for any project involving other RLUK members • Share and publicise freely your insights, plans, projects, views and comments – greater input – richer resource!