JISC

The JISC invites tenders to plan, organise and facilitate a series of workshops exploring practical problem areas for libraries in the use of library management systems and to compile a report on the outcomes of these workshops. The workshops will be based on a number of case studies from institutional libraries funded under JISC Grant Funding Call 12/09 on enhancing library management systems.

The aims of the work are to:

• Provide a template for the case studies to use in documenting their ‘problem area’;
• Advise the case study libraries on completing the template as necessary;
• Plan and organise the workshops;
• Facilitate discussion at and deriving conclusions from the workshops (conclusions may be further definition of problem areas, or how to specifically address these or there may be conclusions in terms of more general steps that might help to address any issues, for example further requirements analysis);
• Draw up a report based on the discussions and conclusions at the workshops (placing these discussions within a broader context);
• Contribute to an event ‘show casing’ the work of projects under JISC Call 12/09, which includes the outcomes from these case studies.

Total funding of up to £25,000 (including VAT, travel and subsistence and excluding the venue and catering costs of the workshops) is available for this project.

The deadline for proposals is 12 noon UK time on Friday 29^th January 2010.

A full version of the ITT can be found below.