The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and Jisc recently announced a partnership to advance programmes of mutual interest for academic communities, on both sides of the Atlantic.
Jisc, and CLIR, a US-based community-building, research, and leadership organisation, serving academic and cultural institutions, will explore transnational collaboration around the development of digital libraries and research data repositories.
The partnership will also focus on the professional development needs of their sectors, and shared services that could reduce costs, create greater efficiencies and better serve the academic research community.
The two organisations have agreed to work towards the shared goals of advancing skills and expertise relating to digital proficiency to help achieve the possibilities of modern digital empowerment for current and subsequent generations; promote the highest quality of content and connectivity for digitally based education programmes, inculcating best practices and sharing of the most effective, robust tools and applications; and promote the development of a coherent, well-managed digital environment in support of innovative teaching and research, facilitating communities of learning and practice, and stressing the interrelatedness of all electronic-based academic efforts.
A joint CLIR/Jisc programme board will be established to develop, monitor, and report on collaborative projects going forward.
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