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University, College & Research Group (South West) Present:

DARTS - Discover Academic Research Training & Support - Summer 2005 Conference.

This is a two-day residential conference on libraries supporting research in Higher Education. The conference will address a broad range of issues relating to how libraries can best support academics and researchers across an ever-changing educational environment. The conference boasts a diverse range of speakers from a plethora of organisations and backgrounds and should be of interest to anyone in the academic library community. Topics to be addressed include institutional repositories, research support projects, and RAE data collection.

The conference is being hosted by Dartington College of Arts at Dartington Hall, a 14th Century Manor House on a 1500-acre estate in the heart of South Devon. Accommodation is provided around Dartington's medieval courtyard with meals in the beamed dining rooms of the Hall. Tours of the 40-acre gardens by Beatrix Farrand are included in the conference and local wines, ales and ciders will be available from The White Hart: Dartington's own bar which was recently placed in the Top 10 gastropubs in Britain.

When and Where?
Date: Thursday 23rd June 2005 - Friday 24th June 2005
Venue: Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon.
Accommodation: Dartington Hall
Time: Conference begins at 12.00 noon on the Thursday and concludes at 4.30pm on the Friday.
Price of event: (including buffet lunch on arrival, evening dinner, accommodation, breakfast and lunch on day 2.)
Who is this course for: University managers, subject librarians and any Information professionals with a role or interest in supporting research.

UCR Members:
£250 + VAT standard rate

Non-members
£270 + VAT standard rate

Please book early to avoid disappointment, as delegate numbers will be limited.


Programme:

Thursday 23rd June
12:00 - 13:50   Arrival, Registration & Buffet lunch
13:50 - 14:00   Welcome and Introduction - Christopher Pressler (Director of Academic Services, Dartington College of Arts)
14:00 - 15:00   Elizabeth Heaps, University Librarian, York University
15:00 - 15:30   Afternoon Tea
15:30 - 16:30   Jan Wilkinson, British Library (HE/Research remit)
        Tour of grounds
        Drinks reception
19.00   Dinner
        Evening Entertainment

Friday 24th June
        Breakfast
09:30 - 10:30   RAE Representative
10:30 - 11:00   Morning Coffee
11:00 - 12:00   Bill Hubbard, SHERPA
12:00 - 13:00   David Nicholas, Professor of Library and Information Studies, UCL

13:00 - 14:00   Lunch

14:00 - 15:00   Chris Bradford, Education Librarian, Warwick University & Angela Brady, Subject Liaison librarian, Brunel University - IMPACT project
15:00 - 15:30   Afternoon Tea 
15:30 - 16:30   Dr. Jessica Gardner, Special Collections Librarian, University of Exeter
16:30   Close of Conference




For more information visit the conference website:
<http://www.dartington.ac.uk/conferences/index.asp>

or contact:

Caroline Gale, UCR Treasurer
Main Library, University of Exeter, Stocker Road, Exeter, EX4 4PT
Tel: 01392 263884   
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To make a booking fill in the form below and send to Caroline at the above address.


Further information about the host institution and conference venue can be
found at:
Dartington College of Arts - <http://www.dartington.ac.uk/>
Dartington Hall - <http://www.dartingtonhall.com/>
Dartington Hall Trust -<http://www.dartingtonhall.org.uk/>

Conference cancellation policy:
Cancellations can be made up until the 1st of April, after this deadline if a delegate cancels no refund will be available but another delegate will be accepted in their place. 



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University of Gloucestershire
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