Conference 2008
Raising Standards:
Acquisitions and Collection Management in 2008
Date: 9th and 10th September 2008 University of East Anglia, Norwich
Learning - updating - real social networking!
Hot topics - leading practitioners - key contacts!
Modern campus - single, en-suite accommodation!
Pre-dinner drinks reception at the magnificent Norman Foster designed Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
NOW FULLY BOOKED
NAG Members only - book before August 15th for our special earlybird rate of £300 (full price £325; non-members £375)
Day rates NAG members £150 and non-members £200
Extra nights accommodation (B&B) on 8th £75
All prices ex VAT
Latest information on topics and speakers includes:
Our Keynote Speaker is Sue McKnight of Nottingham Trent University
Papers
Library Management Systems - Who Cares? (Ken Chad, Ken Chad Consulting Ltd)
Why pay for a replacement LMS when you can get an Open Source one free? Why are library resources so fragmented? Do your users need your OPAC anyway (or indeed your library service) if they have Google Books, Amazon, AbeBooks and LibraryThing? Is most of the really interesting 'library' stuff happening outside conventional libraries and conventional library system vendors? Does anyone care? Ken will look at the 'competition' to conventional libraries and library vendors and assess what is going on in the library market. He will look at how both libraries and LMS vendors are responding to a radically changed information environment.
National E-books Observatory Project (Caron Milloy, JISC)
RFID - What Next? (Paul Dalton, Intellident and Jan Holden, Norfolk Libraries))
Do You Want Fries with That? (Or No-one Misses You Until You're Gone) Trends in Academic Bookselling (Colin Marshall, Leicester University Bookshop)
Is Kindle burning a hole in your Mobipocket?(Martin Palmer, Essex Libraries)
As new formats and devices bring e-books into the digital limelight, how should public libraries re-act? This paper looks at some of the advances (and retreats) in e-book provision over the past few years and their implications for public libraries in the UK, drawing on Essex Libraries experience.
Identification and Discovery of Digital Resources: A data aggregator's perspective (Jon Windus and Peter Mathews, Nielsen)
Workshops (9th pm and repeated on the 10th am)
Libraries and Researchers in the 21st Century (Moira Bent, University of Newcastle)
Based on research done for a book on Library support for research this session will explore the characteristics and needs of modern researchers, predominantly in the HE environment.
Selecting and Acquiring E-books (Steve Sharp, University of Leeds)
The workshop will focus on the discovery, acquisition, cataloguing and management of e-books within the HE environment, exploring some of the barriers to full exploitation of electronic content.
Sale of the (New) Century? Audio Visual collections in libraries - income and library marketing opportunities (Trevor Allen, Gloucestershire Libraries)
The workshop will 'quiz' participants on where they are now in terms of their own AV collections/policy - and where they would like to be.
Visit/Tour of Bertram Books, Norwich
BOOK NOW! PLEASE NOTE WE ARE FULLY BOOKED
Plus more information as it arrives - watch this space! Registration from 9.30am and Conference starts at 11am prompt on 9th and finishes at 3pm on 10th. BB available on the 8th if required at £75. Please contact the office for more information. Finalised programme in preparation- Ring 01924 383010 or nag1@btconnect.com
*Please note cancellation of a firm booking up to 15th August no charge/full refund; 50% of fee payable up to 31st August; full fee payable thereafter.
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