Landscape+-+UPLS

The Landscape: UPLS
· EIH = E-resources work group · Metadata Group · UPExplore · UPSpace User Group · Web 2.0 group · E-steering committee · Web Steering Committee
 * Committees / work groups / task teams **

· Operating systems: Windows 7, Linux, Millennium
 * What we do **

· Institutional repositories: UPSpace and UPeTD · Metadata editors · Digitization and preservation · Web development and maintenance · Advocacy: open access

· Building project and other venues · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Workstations for clients · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Workstations for staff · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Maintenance of and support for hardware, software, PCs, servers, wireless · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Software for disabled unit · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Group facilities, training facilities · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Learning spaces, Research commons, labs, e-enabled venues

· <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Mobile technology initiative · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Web 2 roll out [ wikis, mashup, blog, YouTube, Skype, Twitter, GoogleTalk, RSS feeds] · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Gaming

· <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Transformed management and delivery of information resources: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">- fully operational Millennium system: e-catalogue etc <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">- all work done online, e.g. EDI, Book data system <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">- abundant e-resources available 24/7: e-books, e-journals (97%), databases, exam papers, e-reserves, click-up pages <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">- search and discovery, e.g. Primo, Google Scholar <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">- UP’s contribution via UPSpace and UPeTD

· <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">RefWorks, Endnote, RefShare (Excellent product for Phytomedicine) · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Indexing of the contents pages and indexes of book collections (Faan Naude) · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Ask a librarian

· <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Strategies and projects

· <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Training: workshops, copyright, plagiarism, formal credit bearing teaching, book data, online manuals · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Community of passion · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Staff: Systems = 8 · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">E-Unit = 6 · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">20 other staff members actively involved · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Available talent and skills · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Clients: needs, attitudes, abilities · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Freeing space and HR