PULMAN: Public Libraries Mobilising Advanced Networks Thematic Network IST Programme - 5 FP May 2001 - May 2003 Rob Davies PULMAN Project Manager MDR Partners
e-Europe 2005: Action Plan Priorities relevant to public libraries • modern public services – e-government, e-learning, e-health – interactive – multiple platforms • e-inclusion - ‘an Information Society for All’ – – – digital skills lifelong learning public access points special needs access in remote areas • applications and content • broadband infrastructure
e-Europe: where public libraries stand • • knowledge of users' requirements physical focus librarians have or can develop the necessary skills tradition of supporting access to information • very wide large existing usage (c 120 million) • progress in many EU countries in: – – complementing book-based services with digital facilities reinforcing the educational role of librarian guidance pooling internet-based experience and resources allowing citizens to have hands-on access
PULMAN Objectives and Scope • strengthen performance, help achieve potential of public libraries – new economic, social and cultural roles – emerging e-Europe agenda • spread strategic initiatives across europe – member and candidate states – sensitise national authorities and practitioners – different starting points - one size will not fit all! • exchange knowledge, experience, good practice – promote digital services and best practice centres • develop cross-sectoral agenda for local services – starting from a public libraries standpoint
PULMAN Target Audiences PULMAN Practitioners Policymakers Local cultural services (Museums and archives)
PULMAN Management
The PULMAN Network
The EXTended PULMAN Network
PULMAN-XT June 2002 -September 2003 • New countries: EU neighbours – – – – – Albania Belarus Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia Macedonia Moldova Russia Turkey Ukraine Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro)
How Is PULMAN Operating (1)? • Guidelines on digital services – ‘state of the art embodiments of good practice in innovative public library services’ – support transition to digital service delivery • 36 national workshops (autumn 2002) – launch guidelines – develop public library strategies – cross-domain agenda (libraries, museums, archives) • consensus-building at European level – contact with key organisations/associations/projects – cross-domain workshop, Den Haag, June 2002
How Is PULMAN Operating (2)? • training attachments – 40+ public library managers at EU centres of excellence • Policy Conference, Oeiras, Portugal, 13/14 March 2003 – focus on how services can best be delivered at local level – manifesto/declaration eg Copenhagen?
How Is PULMAN Operating (3)? 1. PULMANWeb www. pulmanweb. org 1. country contacts 2. country reports 3. Pulman. Express newsletter 4. news 5. links 6. registry of distance learning materials 7. . . and the PULMAN guidelines “access point and reference tool for professionals and policy makers” PLEASE REGISTER AND INTERACT
Country Co-ordinators • organise support groups of active people • lobby and energise – policy makers, practitioners, cross-domain • • • organise national workshops supply country information ensure participation in policy conference translate and disseminate guidelines identify trainees etc
The PULMAN Guidelines • First edition on PULMANWeb – – – (180 pages - navigable web document) 3 main sections: social policy, management, technical policy introduction 1 -page summary of each guideline links to examples of good practice from each guideline • being translated into 25+ languages • • process of open review until December 2002 Second edition before policy conference sustainable service? PLEASE READ AND COMMENT
The PULMAN Guidelines Section 1 - Social Policy • • social inclusion/e-inclusion e-government services for children and schools services supporting education in adult life (lifelong learning) • support for business and the economy • access to cultural content
The PULMAN Guidelines Section 2 - Management • co-operation and partnership • funding and financing • performance measures and evaluation • copyright
The PULMAN Guidelines Section 3 - Technical • • digitisation multimedia service delivery developments in integrated library systems delivery channels resource description, discovery and renewal tailoring of services/personalisation multilingual issues
Future Vision • sustainable PULMAN services after project? • broader local services network to deliver e-europe – museums and archives at local/regional level – schools, economic sector (eg cultural tourism) – IST workshop Copenhagen 4 November - ‘The Business of Heritage - from Local to Global’ – FP 6? • encourage wider takeup of innovation – reengineering of services in local authority context • public/private partnership - deliver ‘web services’? • benchmarking and co-ordination of policy: – national authorities • enlargement and international co-operation
PULMANWeb www. pulmanweb. org
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