Confirmed participants:
Kirsti Hagen Andersen, Bergen Resource Centre for International Development.
Michel Wesseling, ISS, Haag
Svend Erik Lindberg, DCISM, Copenhagen
Jon Gregson, IDS, Brighton
Moderated by Laurel Dryden
- bwunsch @anjarasmussen #imwg10 What about Mergers and integration influence on identitiy: Who are you? And who do others think you are?
- wesselim #imwg10 anita elleby: your institutional knowledge is etared of when you move into a new job and you are left with the "naked" librarian" ..
- CABI_News CABI meeting Development-focused librarians & information managers at the EADI IMWG session in Bergen. Follow tweeds from session: #imwg10
- anjarasmussen #imwg10 top management expect change and innovation the libraries ends up in a managerial spiral
- wesselim #imwg10 nias is NOT integrted, merged nor acquired, but cooperates with kopenhagen university.
- wesselim http://www.yourchords.com/9684/Cat-Stevens/Lillywhite-Chords/ #imwg10
- anjarasmussen #imwg10 integration can be experiences as a take over by staff if goals or aims are unclear
- anjarasmussen #imwg10 finding a new home requires strategic thinking
- anjarasmussen #imwg10 take your time to feel the change
- anjarasmussen #imwg10 ids Jon Gregson: undertaking and overtaking
- anjarasmussen #imwg10 more advantages that negative sides is the conclusion from IIS
- imwg10 ISS: merger meant advantages of scale - new IT arrangements status for larger repositories cost benefits and experience #imwg10
- imwg10 DCISM: Merger also showed value of local collections as views on global systems such as worldcat. #imwg10
- anjarasmussen #imwg10 own rules and rights allowing for selection of students, research areas and staff
- anjarasmussen #imwg10 independency of the mother institution as a institution in it's one is important
- bibliotheek20 RT @wesselim: make sure you have a lot of "librarian" inside yourself, not the institute heritage #imwg10
- imwg10 DCISM: Development research and development studies are more multidisciplinary post-integration. #imwg10
- anjarasmussen #imwg10 do not continue with old routines or tasks develop new ones to identify your new users and tasks; keep your users close
- wesselim #imwg10 do the hard things NOW, doing it later will be impossible!
- wesselim make sure you have a lot of "librarian" inside yourself, not the institute heritage #imwg10
- anjarasmussen #imwg10 go look for your inside-librarian when you move or change job to find to way for a new job description move into a new job
- imwg10 DCISM: In a merger situation whilst building one catalogue - ensure units still have "thier" library #imwg10
- wesselim #imwg10 we should continue to stay focused and not just rely on the global tools, such as worldcat
- anjarasmussen #imwg10 have to improvise and learn new issues and services what happens to the users: not easy to please all
- wesselim #imwg10 library becomes much biger but less focused, not so much as a result of the merger, but because of e-resources.
- anjarasmussen #imwg10 hard to be an integrated part of the individual institute library one entity
- wesselim #imwg10 what was supposed to create synergies turns out to create confusion at dcism, diis and imr
- imwg10 DCISM:Collections librarians and users ALL component levels of merger #imwg10
- wesselim #imwg10 integration of diis, imr and dcism creates a situation with three diferent boards and two directors. sounds like fun to me
- imwg10 A #library is more than just books. It's collections + librarians + users. #imwg10
- wesselim #imwg10 finally learned that a librarian is a person who runs the library
- anjarasmussen #imwg10 DCISM plan to stay expensive
- wesselim #imwg10 lets not forget the users when we discuss mergers and acquisitions.
- anjarasmussen #imwg10 Svend Erik Lindberg, DCISM what do we understand about integration, what is a library, what is a library?
- imwg10 CMI:Integration and relocation opened up an arena, new opportunities, new ways to work. #imwg10 http://www.cmi.no
- wesselim #imwg10 bergen resource centre for intl development is still very expensive
- anjarasmussen #imwg10 better planing a year a head for each research cluster and the master students! The move opened up new concepts and uses
- anjarasmussen #imwg10 2 to 3 arrangement per week works well to attract new users using posters, mails and the web site
- anjarasmussen #imwg10 the centre is both a library and an information/conference centre meet ins, conferences, films and books
- anjarasmussen #imwg10 Bergen Resource Centre for International Development two owners CMI and Bergen University
- anjarasmussen #imwg10 think strategy rethink traditional library services cooperate recommendations from Kirsti Andersen, cmi
- imwg10 Panel session: Experiences in #integration issues for the#library #imwg10
