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Sixth International Summer School on the Digital Library

In the summer and fall of 2001, the International Summer School on the
Digital Library will be held for the sixth year in a row. This year, the
Summer School will consist of three one-week courses: two courses will be
held at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, and one at the European
University Institute in Florence, Italy. Every year, the Summer School is
updated to respond to the most recent developments. This year, a new course
was developed on a very topical subject: the role of libraries in education.

Almost 250 librarians from 27 different countries have attended the very
successful Summer School so far. Last year, as much as 98 per cent indicated
they would recommend the Summer School to colleagues in the field.

Course 1: The Management of Change
(Tilburg, 30 July - 3 August)
The course aims to identify new opportunities for libraries, to support
librarians in developing a vision, and to provide librarians with tools to
initiate a change in their own organisation. Course directors are Lynne J.
Brindley, Chief Executive of the British Library, and Jan Wilkinson,
University Librarian and Keeper of the Brotherton Collection at Leeds
University Library. The programme is designed for library
managers/directors, deputy librarians/directors, and other senior managers
involved in strategic change in academic and research libraries.

The following subjects will be dealt with: the changing outside world,
library vision, new ways of supporting research and learning, strategic
planning, models and frameworks for change management, managing the process
of change, organisational change, managing resistance, communication, human
resource aspects of change, human resource management, and improvement
programmes.

Course 2: Digital Libraries and the Changing World of Education
(Tilburg, 5 - 10 August)
A completely new course on the role of (digital) libraries in education.
Course director is Hans Roes, Deputy Librarian at Tilburg University
library. The course is designed for librarians, reference librarians,
library managers, instruction librarians, designers of learning
environments, and teaching staff.

The course addresses the possible roles of and opportunities for libraries
in education and focuses on practical experiences and case studies of
libraries. Attention will be paid to the digital library as a natural
complement of digital learning environments, information literacy as a
critical skill for lifelong learning, the relation between physical and
virtual learning environments, and opportunities for library staff in
co-designing digital learning environments.

Course 3: Electronic Publishing: Libraries as Buyers, Facilitators, or
Producers
(Florence, 7 - 12 October)
Hans Geleijnse, Director of Information Service and Systems at the European
University Institute in Florence (previously librarian at Tilburg
University), is the director of this course which aims to support university
and research libraries in the current transitional phase and to identify new
roles and opportunities for them. The course is designed for library
managers/directors, IT or systems librarians, licensing officers, and
digital library project managers from academic and research libraries. The
course is highly relevant for publishers.

The following themes will be dealt with: changes in the information chain,
new roles for publishers, the library as an information gateway and
publisher, the economics of journal publishing, copyright, licensing and
library consortia, the art of negotiation, electronic pre-prints and
document servers, preservation and digital archiving, and reference linking.

Experts
Many international experts will present lectures, case studies, and
demonstrations, including:
­ Richard Biddiscombe (University of Birmingham, UK)
- Lars Bjørnshauge (eHuset, DK)
­ Mike Cant (Larch Consulting Ltd, UK)
- Jonathan Clark (Elsevier Science, NL)
- Christine Dugdale (University of the West of England, UK)
- Elizabeth Dupuis (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
- Anneke Eurelings (Maastricht McLuhan Institute, NL)
- Frederick J. Friend (University College London, UK)
­ Emanuella Giavarra (Chambers of Mark Watson Gandy, UK)
- Joseph Janes (University of Washington, USA)
- Lucy Jeynes (Larch Consulting Ltd, UK)
- Rick Johnson (The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition,
USA)
- David Kohl (University of Cincinnati, USA)
- Pat Davitt Maughan (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
- Howard Nicholson (University of Bath, UK)
- Eugenie Prime (Hewlett Packard Company, USA)
- Hannelore B. Rader (University of Louisville, USA)
- Hans Roosendaal (University van Twente, NL)
- Linda C. Smith (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
- David E. Stern (Yale University, USA)
- Herbert Van de Sompel (Cornell University,USA)
- Alisia Wise (King's College London, UK)

Group discussions and workshops will enable participants to apply the new
information to their own situation. A detailed programme will become
available via Ticer's website: http://www.kub.nl/~ticer/summer01/ (not later
than February 1).

The Summer School will be organised by Ticer B.V. (Tilburg Innovation Centre
for Electronic Resources) in co-operation with Tilburg University and the
European University Institute.

More information
Ticer B.V.
Mrs. Jola Prinsen
P.O. Box 4191
5004 JD Tilburg
The Netherlands
Phone: +31-13-4668310
Fax: +31-13-4668383
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
http://www.ticer.nl