We would like to draw your attention to the new courses of the
International Ticer School, formerly known as International Summer School
of the Digital Library. In these high-standard courses experienced
international lecturers will deal with several interesting and current
topics.

Course "The Digital Library and e-Publishing for Science, Technology, and
Medicine" in June 2004

An ideal opportunity for STM librarians to get an overview of where STM
libraries are heading, at the attractive location of CERN in Geneva,
Switzerland. This programme offers an overview of international
developmenst in just a few days. Because of the relatively small groups of
participants, the experience is very interactive and intense, so delegates
will get more out of these courses than out of a conference.

Where and when
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. Sunday afternoon 13 up to and including Friday
morning 18 June 2004, with an optional programme on Friday afternoon.

Target group
Library managers, librarians, reference librarians, subject specialists,
publishers and other information professionals in the fields of science,
technology, and medicine (STM). Advanced libraries will mainly be
addressed, without excluding the less technically advanced libraries.

Subjects
Changes in the information chain; new roles of publishers on the Internet;
the library as the information gateway, the library as a publisher;
licensing options; library consortia: success, realism and myth; electronic
preprints: document servers and institutional repositories; reference
linking; library case studies.

Course director
Rick Luce, Director, Research Library, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA,
is known as both an information technology pioneer and organisational
innovator. Rick has held numerous advisory and consultative positions
supporting digital library development and digital publishing, and is a
well-known international speaker.

Programme

Monday 14 June 2004:
* Introduction to e-publishing and the role of the library (Dr. Carol
Tenopir, Professor of Information Sciences, Interim Director, Center for
Information Studies, University of Tennessee, USA)
* IT and electronic publishing (lecturer to be confirmed)
* Current state of medical libraries (Ronald van Dieën, Consultant,
Ingressus B.V., NL)
* Case study: Electronic journals and electronic publishing at CERN
(lecturer to be confirmed)
* Workshop discussion: Digital library and e-publishing issues and topics
(Rick Luce, Library Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research
Library, USA)

Tuesday 15 June 2004:
* The strategy of a commercial publisher (Jonathan Clark, Technology
Director, Elsevier Science, NL)
* The strategy of an alternative approach to commercial publishing (Jan
Velterop, Publisher, BioMed Central, UK)
* The strategy of an Open Access publisher (Dr.Ulrich Pöschl, Head of the
Aerosol Research Group, Technical University of Munich, Institute of
Hydrochemistry, GER)
* The SPARC initiative (lecturer to be confirmed)
* The Open Access debate (Rick Luce)
* Workshop: Scenario planning for content in my organization (Rick Luce)

Wednesday 16 June 2004:
* Licensing (Emanuella Giavarra, Copyright lawyer, Chambers of Mark Watson-
Gandy, UK)
* Library consortia (Arnold Hirshon, Executive Director, NELINET, USA)
* New digital library applications: what is on the horizon? (Rick Luce)
* Leadership: the personal dimension (Eugenie Prime, former Manager Hewlett-
Packard, Corporate Libraries, USA)
* Workshop: Marketing the digital library (Eugenie Prime)

Thursday 17 June 2004:
* Case study: Digital library and e-publishing developments in chemistry
(Engelbert Zass, Chemical Information Specialist, Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology Zürich, Chemistry Biology Information Center, CH)
* Institutional Repository Model: The Max Planck eDoc system (Theresa
Velden, Executive Director, Heinz Nixdorf Center for Information Management
in the Max Planck Society (ZIM), Münich, Germany)
* Interoperability standards to facilitate the efficient dissemination of
content (Herbert Van de Sompel, Research and Prototyping Team Leader, Los
Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library, USA)
* Workshop: Institutional repositories (Herbert Van de Sompel)

Friday 18 June 2004:
* Workshop: Report on institutional repository approaches (Herbert Van de
Sompel)
* Case study: Integrating digital content: the CERN solution (Jens Vigen,
Scientific Information Officer, CERN, Scientific Information Service, CH)
* Connecting with customers and the future role of STM libraries (Rick Luce)
* Optional tour of CERN

Website
http://www.ticer.nl/04stm/

Registration via http://www.ticer.nl/form/form04.htm.

More information can be found on the Ticer website, via
http://www.ticer.nl/plans.htm.

Organisation
The courses are organised by Ticer B.V., known from the International
Summer School on the Digital Library, in cooperation with Tilburg
University in the Netherlands, the Los Alamos National Laboratory Research
Library in the USA, the CERN Scientific Information Service in Switzerland,
Informationland in the Netherlands/UK, the Netherlands Association for
Library, Information, and Knowledge Professionals (NVB), Heriot-Watt
University in the UK, and University of Leeds in the UK.

Courses in 2004
In 2004 the International Ticer School will offer the following library
management courses.
* The Digital Library and e-Publishing for Science, Technology, and
Medicine (4.5 days)
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 13-18 June 2004
* Return on Investment for Libraries and Information Services (2 days)
Tilburg University, the Netherlands, 27-29 June 2004
* Electronic Resources and Electronic Publishing (3 days)
Tilburg University, the Netherlands, 10-13 August 2004
* Library Strategy and Key Issues for the Future (2 days)
Tilburg University, the Netherlands, 15-17 August 2004
* Change: Making it Happen in your Library (3 days)
Tilburg University, the Netherlands, 17-20 August 2004


Contact

Ticer B.V.
Ms Anja Huijben and Ms Esther Bruls
P.O. Box 4191
5004 JD Tilburg
The Netherlands
T. +31 - 13 - 466 8310
F. +31 - 13 - 466 8383
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URL http://www.ticer.nl/