Conference 2007
Right Here, Right Now!
Acquiring and Managing Collections in Academic and Public Libraries
Date: 12th and 13th September 2007
Learning - updating - real social networking!
Hot topics - leading practitioners - key contacts!
Compact, modern campus - accessible location - single, en-suite accommodation!
Conference dinner at historic 17th-century Keele Hall!
Latest information on topics and speakers includes:
Keynote speaker - Ronald Milne, Director of Scholarship and Collections (British Library)
Collection Development in the Digital Age
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EThOS - creating, sharing and encouraging access to research (Jill Russell & Tracy Kent, University of Birmingham)
Institutional repositories in universities are making research papers available to a wider audience and theses and dissertations are an important category of material that is already in demand from researchers and libraries. This workshop will discuss the issues surrounding the acquisition, creation and dissemination of e-theses. Participants will also consider likely changes to library acquisitions and document supply processes for the receipt of theses from the universities' own library and for access to theses from other institutions. EThOS will provide a co-ordinated UK service and respository for PhD theses, and comments from participants will influence the early development of this service. Many of the issues and procedures will also be applicable to e-prints and other text based material in institutional repositories.
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Institutional Repositories-the challenges of creating a digital collection of the research output of a university available on Open Acess(Stuart Halliday, University of Sunderland and Eileen Hiller, University of Huddersfield)
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Thinking outside the book: how the electronic revolution is changing the way we discover and use information (Jason Beech and David Lindley Coutts Information Services)
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Web 2.0: It's Okay to Play! (Dave Pattern, University of Huddersfield)
The workshop will discuss the background of the Open Access Movement and the role of the Institutional Repository; the benefits to the researcher, to the University and to the world of scholarly communication. The challenges involved in setting up a Repository and ways of attempting to overcome them wil be examined in the light of experiences at the Universities of Sunderland and Huddersfield
The trend towards the publication of more and more books in electronic format presents challenges for the library and information community in the selection, acquisition and use of e-content. But the nature of e-publishing also challenges the very concept of the book as an cultural artefact. This has wide implications for the book trade and the supply chain as a whole raising questions about how books are perceived and used by researchers and students, how they are published and get to market, the role of booksellers and bookshops as intermediaries, and how information is accessed in libraries. In their paper the speakers will examine these trends, taking an overview of the changing nature of the book from all perspectives:author, publisher, distributor, librarian and user and look at implications for the traditional business and supply chain model. Issues that affect the acquisition of and access to e-content in all libraries will be addressed with particular attention focused on current publisher models, aggregated content models, trends in usage, pricing and licensing and some of the workflow questions and solutions for libraries making the transition from print to e-book acquisitions management
This workshop will include a beginner's guide to a variety of Web 2.0 'stuff,' including blogs, wikis, social networking and bookmarking, RSS feeds and more. The workshop will introduce each of these topics and will look at how libraries are currently using them, how they might be of benefit to you, and how to go about setting them up when you get back to your library...with or without the help of your own IT department!
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Bibliographical data - A changing market (Simon Skinner and Paul Dibble, Nielsen BookData)
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Streamlining workflows to reduce acquisition costs - (Ann Rennie, LB of Havering)
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Dis-integration and re-integration -Library management systems (Robert Bley, Ex Libris)
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Changing trends in UK bookselling and publishing - Jonathan Earl (Thames and Hudson)
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Better Stock Better Libraries - Shared Bibliographical Services Project (Janet Wood, Stockport Libraries and Kate Holliday, Yorkshire Libraries and Information)
Providing books for a diverse population (Ken Park and Sharon Drummond, Bright Books)
The paper presented by Simon and Paul will examine changes in the market place for bibliographic data including the impact of the ever increasing numbers of new titles, and the explosion in updates and enriched content.
Ann's paper concerns the London Libraries Shared Computer System and the Stock Procurement Costing Model
In his paper Robert will look at the dis-integration of previous library system models, and examine how a new generation of user-focused services have been constructed using international interoperability standards. These standards facilitate both the construction of end-user focused 'Web 2.0' services for users, and improved internal processes within libraries - allowing a range of otherwise unnconnected (sometimes legacy) systems and services to be knitted together to facilitate a better library service.
Jonathan's paper will examine the changes sweeping the world of book retail, and will analyse the ways in which publishers are striving to accommodate these developments in their own activities and strategies. He will look at the effect of the recent rapid growth of online retail on the mainstream book trade, and the difference that non-traditional outlets like supermarkets have made to the marketplace. He will then assess how publishers are adapting to this evolving environment in areas like pricing, formats, and in their overall trading strategy.
Janet and Kate's workshop will focus on the MLA's radical Shared Bibliographical Services Project which aims to transform bibliographical services and library supply through the appointment of a commercial Strategic Partner. Find out more direct from two of the consortia which have signed up to Phase 1 of the project.
Why do we need foreign materials? Who reads what? This workshop will answer these basic questions and provide answers to others - How to reach your target audience? Also covered, handling and marketing the books; training staff.
Plus more information as it arrives - watch this space! Registration from 9.30am and Conference starts at 11am prompt on 12th and finishes at 3pm on 13th. BB available on the 11th if required at £65. Please contact the office for more information. Finalised programme now available - Ring 01924 383010 or nag1@btconnect.com
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