New RLUK web services:Engagement and

ActivityMike Mertens

Deputy Executive Director, RLUK

What to achieve for RLUK staff?

• Encourage and allow engagement from staff beyond director level

• Enable RLUK members to collaborate with each other more effectively on projects and bids

• Make communications a truly two-way process• Capture and mine the front-line developments

and new expertise in research libraries about everything from the Google Generation to e-books

What to achieve for RLUK Officers?

• Developing future strategy and support to more closely accommodate emerging member needs

• Broaden and deepen knowledge of staff expertise in member libraries, founded on a concrete evidence base

• Freeing up the Executive to work both more strategically and incisively for and on behalf of the Membership

• Currency and immediacy of information for RLUK members

• “Access anywhere” repository of documentation

What’s New

• Wiki function

• Blog function

• CRM software

• Project Management

• User-created content

• Devolved control

Overview

Mike’s Blog

Users respond…

Deeper User Tools

Project Managing

Project Managing #2

Member Database

User Created Content

New RLUK Communities

• We need your help in identifying RLUK editors for a variety of communities in your institutions

• We can offer this functionality for any project involving other RLUK members

• Share and publicise freely your insights, plans, projects, views and comments – greater input – richer resource!