The Internet, Intute and innovation

Caroline WilliamsExecutive Director of Intute

A JISC service with support from ESRC and AHRC

Overview

1. The Internet and quality

81% of respondents consider that a national Internet service providing access to high quality resources is useful or very useful

2. Internet trends

RSS Web 2.0 Social networking

Personal file

space

Commun-ication

create share discover gather

Collabo - ration

User workflow

Blogs Wikis

3. Intute developments and future

Intute is …Best of the web• Free quality assured information and

training resource created by …• People – librarians and information

professionals, academics, teachers, post-graduate students, and users …

For the community by the community• Using Technology – open standards and

interoperability principles to enable re-use and exposure

What else do we do?

Intute future?

RSS Web 2.0 Social networking

Personal file space

Commun-ication

create share discover gather

Collabo - ration

User workflow

Blogs Wikis

What opportunities do Internet developments provide for library and information services?

Intute is hosted by MIMAS at The University of Manchester, and is a

collaboration between a whole host of partners and contributors.

At the heart of the organisation is a consortium of seven universities; The

University of Manchester, the University of Birmingham, the

University of Bristol, Heriot Watt University, Manchester Metropolitan

University, the University of Nottingham and the University of

Oxford.

Further information about Intute, please visit our website at

http://www.intute.ac.uk. We are always keen to receive feedback about any of

our services. If you have any comments, or would like to find out more about working with us, please

contact us by using our feedback form at http://www.intute.ac.uk/feedback.html

.