From: "Clifford Lynch" <CNI-ANNOUNCE@cni.org>
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Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 17:36:15 -0500
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Subject: Catching up on some important reading from the UK
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My apologies: I have gotten very backlogged in sharing some of the 
interesting new reports with the CNI community, and I want to catch 
up on a few from the UK here.

First, Unique and Distinctive Collections: Opportunities for Research 
LIbraries, developed by the Research Libraries UK (at 
http://www.rluk.ac.uk/news/rlukudcreport/ ) looks at the special 
collections landscape in the UK and Ireland, with considerable focus 
on the ways in which digital technologies are changing the picture. 
This picks up on many of the themes discussed at the ARL/CNI 2009 
Fall Forum on the Future of Special Collections (some talks 
summarized from that are available in 
http://publications.arl.org/rli267/ and also in recordings available 
through ARL's web site) and helps to show thinking has advanced over 
the past five years.

The second is a report issued through the Higher Education Funding 
Council looking at the very interesting question of what happens to 
monographs as Open Access continues to gain ground. This report can 
be found at 
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/rereports/year/2015/monographs/#d.en.99908 
)

The third, and last, is a survey of policies surrounding learning 
analytics and student privacy issued by the JISC. This is described 
here

http://analytics.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2014/12/04/jisc-releases-report-on-ethical-and-legal-challenges-of-learning-analytics/

the actual report is at

http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/5661/1/Learning_Analytics_A-_Literature_Review.pdf

This is a very timely and interesting report, though of course it 
emphasizes the UK and European legal and policy frameworks around 
privacy; the situation in the US is a bit different. My thanks to 
Gary Price for pointing this one out to me.


Happy reading.

Clifford Lynch
DIrector, CNI