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Cardiff EDC Forum 19 January 2011 What is an EDC? What do we do at the Cardiff EDC? The future

Inaugural Meeting of the Cardiff EDC Forum Guest Building Wednesday 19 January 2011 @ 14:30 Ian Thomson Director, Cardiff EDC. Cardiff EDC Forum 19 January 2011 What is an EDC? What do we do at the Cardiff EDC? The future. What is an EDC? EDCs look two ways…

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Cardiff EDC Forum 19 January 2011 What is an EDC? What do we do at the Cardiff EDC? The future

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  1. Inaugural Meeting of the Cardiff EDC ForumGuest BuildingWednesday 19 January 2011 @ 14:30Ian ThomsonDirector, Cardiff EDC

  2. Cardiff EDC Forum 19 January 2011 • What is an EDC? • What do we do at the Cardiff EDC? • The future

  3. What is an EDC? EDCs look two ways… • They are usually part of the library services of universities in EU Member States • They are part of an official EU Information Network called the Europe Direct Information Network

  4. Europe Direct Information Network • Call Centre in Brussels • Europe Direct Information Centres in all 27 EU Member States: 400+ in total • European Documentation Centresin all 27 EU Member States: 400+ in total

  5. What is an EDC? Objective: EDCs are intended to encourage the study of, and research into, the European integration process and the increasing European dimension in other academic disciplines in higher education by providing access to, and developing expertise in, information sources of and about the EU

  6. What is an EDC? Objectives: • Help universities and research institutes promote and develop education and research on European integration, encouraging them to take part in the debate on Europe • Help the public learn about EU policies in more depth

  7. The EDC at Cardiff University • Established in 1973 • EU publications and documents + books and academic journals on Europe, plus much more – the most comprehensive source of European information in Wales • Source of expertise to help students and researchers find printed and electronic information on Europe: neutral and professional service

  8. EDCs in the Digital Age Are EDCs useful in the 21st Century? What does the Cardiff EDC do today to justify its continued existence?

  9. The Cardiff EDC today… • Enquiries • Training / Information Literacy • Events • ERASMUS Reception / European film evening / Europe Day Quiz / Participation in external activities • Internships

  10. The Cardiff EDC today… • Cardiff EDC website • European Sources Online • Wales and Europe • External training and consultancy • Working with the wider EDC Network and other EU information networks • Pan-European Working Group on Electronic Repositories

  11. The future… • New location • What should we be doing? • Over to you… Cardiff EDC Forum

  12. The future location of the Cardiff EDC Existing building New location from Summer 2011

  13. Existing EDC in Guest Building Proposed setting for EDC in Guest Extension

  14. Draft plan for the Aberconway Guest Study Centre (including EDC)

  15. Future activities of EDCs… • EDC Network • Pan-European Working Group on Electronic repositories • Create a European information repository (or portal to link existing repositories) • ESO to evolve into an EDC Network information service • Ask an EDC Librarian information service

  16. Future activities of Cardiff EDC • More of the same in our new setting • Do you have suggestions?... Cardiff EDC Forum

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