Anne Poulson, the new Executive Director of what was CURL and will shortly be ‘RLUK’ (Research Libraries UK) has been presenting at Imperial this morning about the future direction for CURL. The new Strategic Plan is now on the CURL website:

http://www.curl.ac.uk/about/documents/RLUKStrategicPlan2008-2011.pdf

Definitely some interesting points about what RLUK is going to be doing in the future – one that leapt out at me (probably because its what I associate most closely with CURL), is the ‘Resource Discovery and Delivery’ part, which indicates that CURL is eager to work with a wide range of bodies – both commercial and public – to be part of a conversation about the creation of a ‘integrated national discovery to delivery service’. The emphasis was clearly on being part of the conversation, rather than being the body that delivered the service, but that funding had to exist somewhere to make this happen.

Anyway, Anne is going round CURL members to do the same presentation, but the new RLUK website should be launching shortly, and there is to be a conference in October (22nd-24th, no further details as yet) which will be an very open conference intending to include academics and staff from across library services – sounds like it could be interesting – watch the website for more details…