SCONUL Transparency Event

Friday 4 May 2007

Epworth room, MIC Centre, 81 Euston Street, London NW1 2EZ

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Target audience: Head/Directors and/or Deputies of Library Services with financial responsibilities of the SCONUL group

In 1998 HEFCE set up the transparency and accountability review programme as a means to enable the higher education funding bodies to meet their responsibilities to report to Government in a transparent and accountable way on the use of funds provided from the public purse for the sector as a whole. The top level approach adopted by most universities at the time concentrated on direct research and teaching and learning. Whilst it has been acceptable to provide an institutional view there appears to be an increasing move to obtain more granularity, with library services being of interest in relation to research and teaching.

Objectives of the workshop:

• To obtain a clearer understanding of the drivers relating to the financial reporting management required by HEIs’
• To examine ways of identifying how much services costs and the value that these services provide for the institution
• Raise awareness, through case studies, of the requirement for the identification of and value in consistent gathering of management information
• In the workshop experience, to identify the skills issues required by senior and middle library managers to enable them to respond to the changes in HE funding dynamics as part of developing CPD training.