Lend an ear to British Library project: user panel sought

Members of the project team from the Jisc-funded Archival Sound
Recordings project are now creating a panel of users. If you have
experience of using audio in Further or Higher Education, whether to
enhance or drive teaching and learning, or as a resource for
research, the British Library would like to hear from you. The project team
is especially interested in disability and access issues, and so advice and
guidance from people with experience in that area will be particularly
welcome. The Panel will meet four times a year, and expenses will be
reimbursed. 

The project itself 'fits in very well with the British Library
strategy', said the Head of the British Library Sound Archive, Crispin
Jewitt, at an interview Jisc conducted recently. The emphasis of
the recordings is on popular, classical, world and jazz music genres
as well as the spoken word. So, if you fancy helping to:

• Oversee the implementation of the web interface and
  resource discovery tools;
• Recommend additional sound recordings for digitisation;
• Advise on the development of the service and make
  appropriate recommendations for the benefit of UK further and higher
  education community;
• Promote the use of British Library Archival Sound
  Recordings resource amongst the relevant user communities;
• Report project milestones, to relevant user communities
  and associated organisations;
• Advise on usability compliance with particular reference
  to blind and partially sighted users

Send your completed nomination to Peter Findlay, The British Library, 96
Euston Road, London NW1 2DB by no later than 22nd April
2005. You should include a short CV, your key attributes
and current contact details. Please note that if you do nominate
yourself or someone else, this will not guarantee appointment to the panel.