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This is a reminder that bookings for the following conference will close on the 25th August 2006.

If you would like to attend and haven't yet filled in a booking form please do so at http://www.nowal.ac.uk/training/general_programme/timetable.php?course=201

Friday 8th September 2006, St Martin's College, Carlisle.

Hosted by SOLSTICE Centre for Excellence in Teaching Learning at Edge Hill and The Learning Gateway St Martin's College.

This one-day conference explores and highlights how libraries are planning, adapting and utilising space (in a variety of contexts) to support the changing culture of learning and teaching in the further and higher education sector.

The use and takeup of ICT in support of these developments is also influencing both the student (and staff) experience and innovations in library and information services practice are both driving and responding to needs of an increasingly diverse student body. At the core of these concepts is the relationship between purposefully designed space, pedagogy and developing roles and interactions.

The Conference themes highlight regional and national developments that demonstrate how space is being viewed, used, supported and adapted:
- The needs of future Learners in the context of physical learning space
- Buildings designed for learner needs including features and design principles
- The role of new and emergent technologies

The Programme also features the work of NoWAL Libraries and provides the opportunity to look round the innovative Learning Gateway Building - St Martin's new flexible learning space opened in April 2006.

Confirmed Programme
09.30 - 10.00
Registration

10.00 - 10.05
Introduction & Welcome
Maxine Melling, Liverpool John Moores University

10.05 - 11.00
Keynote 1
Bob Hunter, University of Birmingham

11.00 - 11.30
Tea & Coffee

11.30 - 12.30
Breakout Sessions
Learning the social way: enhancing learning in a traditional setting
Coral Black, Edge Hill University

Creating a new learning space
Sarah Eatwell, University Centre Hastings

From concept to reality - implementing technologies in a new learning space
Andy White & Phil Smith, St Martin's

Spaces for active learning
Martin Jenkins & Jo Lonsdale, University of Gloucestershire

The Learning Grid at the University of Warwick: A Library Innovation to Support Learning in Higher Education
Rachel Edwards, University of Warwick

12.30 - 13.30
Lunch

13.30 - 14.30
Keynote 2
Margaret Weaver, St Martin's

14.30 - 15.30
Breakout Sessions
The Saltire Centre
Jan Howden, Glasgow Caledonian University

Changing space, changing skills: University space changes in an integrated information services environment
Julie Berry & Liz Jolly, University of Salford

Learners demands and expectations for space in a University Library: outcomes from a survey at Loughborough University
Dr Graham Walton, Loughborough University

Making room for learning
Toni Kelly, University of Birmingham

15.30-16.00
Tea, Cakes & Close

Throughout the day: tours and demonstrations in the Learning Gateway

Cost of Course
£50 NoWAL members
£75 Non-NoWAL members

If you would like to attend this conference please complete the booking form at http://www.nowal.ac.uk/training/general_programme/timetable.php?course=201

Gil Young
NoWAL Support Officer

NoWAL: Widening access to library resources and improving learning and information support services through innovation, influence and partnership.

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