Question: What is the scope of the Information Futures Commission?
Answer: You can download a one-page summary statement (PDF 20 kb) outlining the scope and purpose of the Information Futures Commission.
In summary: the Information Futures Commission will develop a 10-year strategy for the University ’s scholarly information and technologies.
The work of the commission will build upon Growing Esteem, the broader University strategy adopted in 2006. Growing Esteem provides the logical foundation for a re-conceptualisation of the University’s information strategy and plans for the next decade.
What do these changes mean for our libraries? For our teaching and learning spaces? For our research infrastructure? For our information and communication systems and infrastructure?
Here are some more specific examples. The final report might include recommendations about:
- principles for deciding when the University should collect and when it should connect to other institutions’ resources
- a strategy for support services relating to information literacy and information-seeking behavior
- prioritising of physical and virtual spaces for scholarly information
- expected standards and attributes of technological infrastructure or services to support scholarly activities
- models and concepts describing how scholarly information is used in different disciplines, and how best to support this for learning, teaching and research
The Commission will not make recommendations about questions such as:
- how people in the University should teach (pedagogy)
- how we should undertake research
- design of ‘research spaces’ such as laboratories and other specialised facilities
- organisational structures
- specific technologies
For more information, please visit the Information Futures Commission’s main web site.
Question: How will the Information Futures Commission seek input from the University community?
The summary project plan outlines the different ways in which University students and staff can participate in the Information Futures Commission.
We also welcome feedback and questions from outside the University. Please feel free to use the ‘comments’ facility on this weblog, or contact the project team directly.