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Proxime accesserunt: SARAH MACKIE, Pembroke College, and ROSANNA WELLESLEY, Magdalen College.
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Monday, 28 June–Friday, 24 September: 9.30 a.m.–1.30 p.m.
From Monday, 27 September, open at usual times: 9.15 a.m.–5.15 p.m., weekdays.
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This notice is to inform members of the University about a survey of educational recordings in which the University is obliged to participate this year, and to request co-operation in collecting the necessary information.
The University (including its constituent colleges) is covered by an Educational Recording Agency (ERA) Licence to record radio and television broadcasts and cable programmes for educational use, without infringing copyright. The University pays about £24,000 per annum for this licence.
It is a condition of the licence that institutions may be required to maintain for a specified period of time details of radio and television recordings made under the licence and to return this information to the ERA. Oxford University has been selected to take part in ERA's survey during the period 1 September 1998 to 31 August 1999 and the University is therefore asking all staff for assistance in collating the information required.
In each department and college, and some faculty offices, an individual has been nominated as the local co-ordinator for the survey. All staff are asked to give details to the most appropriate co-ordinator of all recordings of radio and television programmes which they make for educational purposes whether at home, in the University, or elsewhere. The information required is the title, date, and channel of the programme, and the location where the recording was made. As statistics have to be returned by the University at the end of every month, it is important that a co- ordinator is informed as soon as possible after a recording is made.
The identity of the local co-ordinator should be publicised in each department, college, and (where appropriate) faculty office. If it is not clear, the departmental administrator, senior tutor, or faculty office administrator should be able to identify the co- ordinator. In cases of difficulty, details of recordings can be passed instead to the University's central co-ordinator, Miss Catherine Long, at the ETRC (telephone: (2)70529, e-mail: catherine.long@etrc.ox.ac.uk). It is, of course, necessary to pass information about recordings only to one co-ordinator; there is no need, for example, to inform both a college co-ordinator and a faculty co-ordinator but simply the one which is most convenient.
Please note that ERA are likely to visit the University at some stage during the survey period and to monitor the information returned against recordings held by the University. It is therefore important that the required information is collected carefully and that recordings are available for inspection if necessary. It is also important to note the requirement (which is general and not just for the period of the survey) that each recording should be labelled with the date and time, and with the statement that `This recording is to be used only for educational purposes'.
It is hoped that the survey will not cause too much inconvenience, and the full co-operation of members of the University would be appreciated.
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From the start of the Long Vacation, the Main Library in St Giles' will be affected by construction work for the Ashmolean Museum's new Chinese Paintings Gallery. The areas most likely to be affected by noise are the Periodicals Room and the stacks on the upper floors. Steps are being taken to minimise disturbance from the construction, which will take place over several months. The library apologises for the inconvenience to users.
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Children between the ages of five and fourteen years will be catered for with activities for the under-eights provided separately from those for older children. Parents and guardians who are students of the University, or employees of the University or one of its constituent colleges, will have priority booking, with unsold places available to other parents after these groups.
The play-scheme will take place in St Frideswide Middle School in Marston Ferry Road, Summertown, Oxford. The school is superbly equipped with excellent playing fields, tennis courts, playgrounds, and two indoor sports halls. In addition there is good access to the Ferry Pool. There will be a free minibus service from the centre of Oxford for those who need it.
A full day will be charged at £15, £7.50 for a half-day, and £62.50 for a full week, with concessions for siblings, and students and lone parents.
Details and booking forms can be found on the university's Web site at http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/eop/child/play.htm, or can be obtained from the Equal Opportunities Administrative Assistant (telephone: Oxford (2)70238, e- mail: jenny.huxley@admin.ox.ac.uk).
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