**Apologies for cross-posting**

ARLIS/UK & Ireland is holding its 31st Annual Conference in July 2005.

Rough Diamonds: polishing partnerships with creative industries
Lakeside Centre, Aston University, Birmingham
7-9 July 2005

A stimulating conference exploring the synergy between creative
industries and art & design libraries, in Birmingham, home to thriving
creative communities and the second largest media centre in Britain.

Although this year's conference is slightly shorter, the programme is
as full as ever, including speakers such as Carol Meads (British
Library), Jayne Everard (Artifact) and Douglas Laird (Business Insight)
and sessions such as:
? Practitioners from fields as diverse as digital media and jewellery,
and their particular information needs
? How to make partnerships work and finding funding for them, based on
current initiatives such as Chrysalis as well as projects in Russia and
Scotland
Our keynote speaker is John Dolan, OBE, Assistant Director, Library &
information Services, Birmingham City Council.

As always a range of topical issues, for example providing for cultural
diversity, supporting users with dyslexia and using Blogs, will be
covered in the workshops.  Study visits and receptions at venues such as
Margaret Street Art School, the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter, the
Gulbenkian Award-winning "Back to Back" Houses, Birmingham Central
Library, the Edwardian Tea Rooms, the Barber Institute of Fine Arts and
the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery will provide access to
world-renowned museums, galleries and libraries.

A small trade exhibition of image databases and other resources will be
held on Saturday 9 July.

Lakeside Conference Centre at Aston University is a purpose-built,
spacious conference venue set next to a small lake on a green and
tranquil campus.  It is a very short walk to the many and varied
cultural delights offered by this vibrant European city.

We look forward to meeting you all there.

Students and International delegates should also note that ARLIS offers
one of each, a funded place at its Annual Conference. 

To register please contact: Chris Fowler, Oxford Brookes University,
Headington Library, Gipsy Lane, Headington, Oxford, OX3 0BP T: ++ 44 (0)
1865 483 138. E: [log in to unmask] 

For further details check the ARLIS website at:
http://www.arlis.org.uk/conf/arlis2005/index.html 



Deborah Sutherland 
Librarian, Stock Control
Word & Image Department
Victoria and Albert Museum
South Kensington
London SW7 2 RL

Tel: 020 7942 2386
Email: [log in to unmask]

The V&A's Word & Image Department incorporates the National Art Library
and the Museum's prints, drawings, paintings and photographs
collections.




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