Resource discovery services & Oxford University Research Archive

Digitization: Projects

Digitization: Services

Bigger plan needed

THE NEW BODLEIAN PROJECT

Richard Ovenden

Preservation

Standards:

Environmental control

Fire control & suppression

Common services

National Archives Advisory Service (2005):

Oxford has ‘skipped a generation’

Space:

Growth

Good management

The Opportunity: Preservation

Complete renewal of storage facilities

Meet British Standards

Satisfy Government

Conservation Centre

High-level care for the special collections

Leading institution for research into science of preservation.

Research

Changing modes of scholarshipEvidence-based learningGraduate studiesResearch skillsMasterclassesDigital scholarship

Visiting scholars and research culture

Dissemination of researchExhibitionsDigital resources

The Opportunity: Research

New reading rooms:Operational efficiency

Facilities for digitally-based scholarship

Facilities for teaching:Masterclasses

Visiting Scholars CentreExhibition facilities

Access

Priorities of University of Oxford: Wider engagement with society

Communicate the contribution of the University to science, learning and culture

The Opportunity: Access

New audiences

Exhibitions Research outputs

Teaching

Approaches to the building – Broad Street