1. 1 Making Sense of Full Disclosure Tom Miles, Full Disclosure Project Officer The British Library Electric Connections 2004 Conference University of Stirling

2. 2 Overview What is Full Disclosure? How have we been getting the message across? What are the core activities of Full Disclosure? Ask not what Full Disclosure can do for you…

3. 3 What is Full Disclosure? Easy online discovery of all major sources of all freely accessible UK information by all potential users

4. 4 How are we getting the message across? Small amount of money available to support retrospective cataloguing projects Call for Proposals 2003: Artists’ Papers Register, Durham University, CURL, West Yorkshire Archive Service, Lincolnshire Grid, ESTC Call for Proposals 2004: National Library of Scotland, National Railway Museum, Newsplan West Midlands, Leeds Central Library

5. 5 How are we getting the message across? Workshops in the English Regions: Cambridge University Library Victoria & Albert Museum EMMLAC Headquarters, Leicester John Rylands University Library Manchester Brighton Museum & Art Gallery York Public Library University of Birmingham Future Workshops: Taunton, 28 th October and St. Mungo’s Museum, Glasgow 25 th November

6. 6 Full Disclosure Core Activities Strand 1: Full Disclosure in the British Library Providing advocacy on retroconversion and retrospective cataloguing projects Development of cross domain and cross sectoral collaborations Hosting of an annual conference Hosting of Full Disclosure website – new version due to go live on 20.09.04

7. 7 Full Disclosure Website

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9. 9 Full Disclosure Core Activities Strand 2: Full Disclosure and the Regional MLA Councils Hosting of regional workshops and related events Working directly with projects from the MLA communities; linking with other MLA strategies

10. 10 Full Disclosure Core Activities Strand 3: Full Disclosure and the national research information agenda Collaboration with the Research Libraries Network (RLN) Collaboration with the Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL)

11. 11 Breakout session How can we best further the aims of Full Disclosure in Scotland?