JISC

This is your chance to shape a unique and potentially ground-breaking project which will bring part of the British Library's huge and varied sound archive into the easy reach of many in education. 

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.