National Scholarly
Communications Forum Professor Michael Anderson
Dept of Economic History, University of Edinburgh (Member Follett Review Group) Joint Funding Councils' Library Review: Report of the Group on a National/ Regional Strategy for Library Provision for Researchers ("http://ukoln.bath.ac.uk/elib/wk_papers/anderson.html">The Anderson Report)Professor John Arbuthnott
Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of Strathclyde (Chairman, JISC)Ms Lynne J. Brindley
Librarian & Director of Information Services British Library of Political and Economic Science, London School of Economics and Political Science (Chair, FIGIT; Member JISC; Member ISSG; Member Follett Review Group )Professor Mel Collier
Head of Division of Learning Development De Montfort University, (Chair, Management Committee, UKOLN; Member TASC)Professor Brian Fender
Chief Executive Higher Education Funding Council for EnglandMr Derek Law,
Director of Information Services and Systems, King's College London, (Chairman, ISSC; Member, FIGIT; Member Follett Review Group)Dr Malcolm Read
Secretary, JISC, Higher Education Funding Council for England
Higher Education Funding Council for England
The HEFCE was established on 6 May 1992 under the terms of the
Further and Higher Education (FHE) Act 1992. The HEFCE is a non-departmental
public body operating within a policy and funding context set
by the Government. The Council assumed responsibility for funding
higher education in England on 1 April 1993, succeeding the Universities
Funding Council and the Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council.
The Council's main functions are to advise the Secretary of State
for Education on the funding needs of higher education institutions
in England and to distribute funds.
Joint Funding Council's Libraries Review
(The Follett Review) December 1993 Review of Library and
related provision in higher education in the United Kingdom was
commissioned jointly by the Higher Education Funding Council for
England; Scottish Higher Education Funding Council; Higher Education
Funding Council for Wales; Department of Education for Northern
Ireland . The Review Group was chaired by Professor Sir Brian
Follett. ("gopher://ukoln.bath.ac.uk:7070/11/BUBL_Main_Menu/H/H2/H2C/FOLLETT")
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
Funded by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council, the Higher
Education Funding Council for England, the Higher Education Funding
Council for Wales and the Department of Education Northern Ireland,
the mission of the JISC is:
'To stimulate and enable the cost effective exploitation of information systems and to provide a high quality national network infrastructure for the UK higher education and research councils communities'. Activities supported by the JISC are organised through a number of sub-committees. These are:
UK Office for Library Networking (UKOLN)
UKOLN supports the UK library and information communities through
research, network services and awareness raising in the area of
network information management. It is funded by the Higher Education
Funding Councils, through the Information Services Sub-Committee
(ISSC) of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), and
the British Library Research and Development Department (BLRDD).
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