Please find attached details of this year's
NAG Annual Conference
SEEKING SOLUTIONS
Lakeside Centre, Aston University
15 - 17 September 2004
Conference Organiser: David Pearson
Outline
Conference this year seeks to investigate the practical issues facing
libraries in the 21st century. It looks at many aspects from standards to
physical access, electronic materials to marketing by bringing together
speakers from all sectors for a mixture of formal papers and workshops.
PROGRAMME
WEDNESDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 2004
13.30 - Registration
15.00 Welcome and opening of Conference
Jo Grocott, NAG Chair;
Dr Nicholas Smith, Director, Aston University Library &
Information Services
15.10 Keynote address
Judith Elkin, Chair of MLA (West Midlands) and
Vice-Principal of University College, Worcester
15.50 Tea
16.20 Publisher and Library Partnerships
Tom Palmer, The Reading Agency and Noel Murphy, Faber
18.15 New delegates' reception
18.45 OUP Reception for the launch of the Dictionary of National
Biography
and Delegates Reception
19.30 Conference Dinner with guest speaker, Robert Lacey
THURSDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2004
9.30 Tagging Can Change the World
Nick Dempsey, Analyst, EPS Ltd
10.15 NAG Annual General Meeting
10.45 Coffee
11.15 Better by Design - Role of the Library in the 21st Century
Ayub Khan, Principal Project Officer, Library of Birmingham
Learning and Culture
12.00 Preparing for 2007 and the Changes to ISBN
Michael Healy, Editorial Director, Nielsen BookData
13.00 Lunch
14.15 Workshop sessions.
15.45 Tea
16.00 Tour of University Library
19.30 Dinner and entertainment
FRIDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2004
09.15 Workshop sessions.
10.45 Coffee
11.15 Full Disclosure
Tom Miles, Full Disclosure Project Officer, The British
Library
12.00 Get London Reading
Chris Meade, Director, Booktrust
12.45 Summary discussion and close of Conference
13.00 Lunch
WORKSHOPS
EPrints UK Project
Philip Hunter, Project Manager, UKOLN
Effective Marketing
Tracey Harwood, Senior Lecturer and Tony Garry, Teaching Fellow, Leicester
de Montfort, University
RFID: Opening Up New Possibilities
Nuala Devlin, Head of Lending Services & Administration, Nottingham
Trent University and Jan Holden, Area Librarian, Norwich and Manager,
Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library
Large Print Provision
Led by Jim Sacre, Ulverscroft Ltd with input from other large print
publishers
E-communication, the Power and the Perils
Libby Alexander, Freelance Trainer
Session and speaker details will be posted on our website at
www.nag.org.uk <http://www.nag.org.uk/> as they become available.
Cost
NAG Members:
£375 (Ex. VAT)
£440.63 (Inc. VAT)
Non-Members:
£425 (Ex. VAT)
£499.38 (Inc. VAT)
Day Delegates:
Members £140 (Ex. VAT) £164.50 (Inc. VAT)
Non-members £190 (Ex. VAT) £223.25 (Inc. VAT)
Student Rate 50% of non-members' fee
Closing date for applications Friday 27 August 2004
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