COLICO Achievements and highlights

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COLICO - Achievements and highlights

• Sean Phillips
• 21 February 2008

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Phase 1 1977-1993

• The routine topics
• ILL cost/statistics/transport/pilot document
  delivery network
• ISBN location list
• Irish Joint Fiction Reserve
• Union List of Periodicals/SHIRL
• Reports from BL and Europe

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Phase 1 1977-1993

• The casualties
• 1981/82 Library co-operation research project
• PATRIC videotex
• Interlending of AV materials

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Phase 1 1977-1993

• The achievements
• From 1984 - SIN
• From 1984 - Conservation on agenda
• From 1985 - EU plan of action
• From 1986 - NEWSPLAN
• 1990 WG on Interlending in Ireland
• From 1991 Groundwork for IRIS

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1994 - the year of

• The strategic repositioning
• The web

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1994 - the strategic repositioning

• Advisory body to ACL and LISC(NI)
• Priorities
• Preservation and conservation
• Resource discovery and sharing
• Research and development
• Staff training and development
• National policy
• Information dissemination
• IJFRS
• A methodology targets and reviews

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Phase 2 1994 - 2003

• The routine topics
• Briefings and position papers
• BLDSC reports
• Irish Joint Fiction Reserve
• ISBN location list lt UnityWeb
• Newsplan
• Preservation and conservation
• New-style annual reports
• Monitoring development projects

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Phase 2 1994 - 2003

• The casualties
• SHIRL
• SIN
• IRIS (as originally envisaged)

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Phase 2 1994 - 2003

• The achievements
• From 1995 Study on resource sharing in Irish
  libraries
• From 1998 Input to the national policy
• From 1998 Training and placement databases
• From 1998 Groundwork for the Special Collections
  project
• From 1999 COLICO website
• From 1999 Books across the Border

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Phase 3 2004 -

• The re-stated priorities
• Resource-sharing and discovery
• Dissemination of information
• Preservation and conservation
• Electronic and digital information
• Funding

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Phase 3 2004 -

• Achievements
• Publicity the COLICO lecture updated website
• Pathways to learning

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Highlights

• NEWSPLAN
• Study on resource sharing
• Input to the national policy
• Special Collections project
• Pathways to learning
• Cross-border and inter-sectoral communication