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UKSG are pleased to announce that booking is now open for our November
One-Day Conference in London:

 

A Problem Shared?  
Understanding shared services and the drive for efficiency in scholarly
communications

 

“Shared services” are increasingly talked about in the scholarly
communications sector, where prominent examples include centralised or
consortial procurement (e.g. NESLi2) and collaborative cataloguing (e.g.
OCLC).  Sharing of processes or technology is often considered to be more
easily implemented in the public sector, where competitive barriers are
lower, but publisher enterprises such as CrossRef have also deployed the
model successfully, and many library vendors’ systems provide the basis for
shared service delivery.  

 

Shared services are usually developed in order to improve quality,
streamline functions and save money.  With severe funding cuts beginning to
take effect in higher education, organisations such as SCONUL, HEFCE and
JISC, as well as individual universities and libraries, are planning to
broaden the implementation of shared services in order to achieve new cost
savings.  Publishers and suppliers are also experimenting further with
collaborative approaches to business challenges, such as ORCID for author
identification.

 

This one-day UKSG conference, chaired by David Sommer, will look back at
lessons learned from past collaboration, both within and outside the
scholarly communications sector, consider the likely impact of current
ventures, and explore how else all stakeholders in the scholarly information
supply chain can work together and make better use of shared services to
achieve new efficiencies in the future.  Our programme of speakers includes:

 

·         Ken Chad on the pressure points in scholarly communications that
shared services can relieve (both locally and globally), the main issues
that drive their implementation, and the need for sustainability of projects

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·         Anne Bell, university librarian at the University of Warwick, and
chair of the SCONUL Shared Services Steering Group, on new HEFCE- and
JISC-sponsored shared services for electronic resource management

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·         Colin Cram, procurement consultant, on the history of shared
services and lessons that can be learned from other sectors

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·         Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen, Finland’s deputy national librarian, on
the progress of various shared services within the EU

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·         Marc van den Berg, director of library and IT services at Tilburg
University in the Netherlands, will discuss the reasons for the University's
move 'to the cloud' for managing print and electronic resources

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·         Mike Taylor, principal investigator at Elsevier Labs, on
collaborative science, ORCID, and how publishers might best pursue shared
services in future.

 

The event will include a “Question Time”-style discussion with delegates
having the opportunity to submit questions in advance, as well as during the
debate.  The programme allows plenty of time for networking and will close
with a drinks reception.

 

Who should attend

The conference attracts a strategic audience of decision-makers from
libraries, publishers and scholarly information community suppliers. We
recommend you attend if:
•  you wish to broaden your understanding of a concept that will become
increasingly relevant
•  you are likely to be involved in implementing shared services for any
part of the scholarly information supply chain
•  you will be affected by the introduction of shared services, either as a
user of those services or as a supplier to those users
•  you seek examples of how shared services have been successfully
implemented to date
•  you have an interest in shaping the future of shared services in our
sector.

 

Fee 

UKSG members:  £160.00 + £32.00 VAT [20%] (total £192.00) 
Non-members:  £210.00 + £42.00 VAT [20%] (total £252.00)
The fee includes refreshments, lunch and the drinks reception.

 

Venue

London, W1



Feedback from last year's one-day conference

The UKSG One-Day Conference was introduced in 2010 to complement the
organisation’s growing Annual Conference with a more intimate, strategic
event.  Delegate comments from last year’s event include:

 

“Well organised, professionally presented, with an appropriate balance of
relevant contexts.”
“Very informative […] enhances awareness of relevant issues in a variety of
contexts.”
“Good, well organised, good venue and catering, and an interesting
programme.”

 

How to book

An  <http://www.uksg.org/event/NOVCONF2011/book> online booking form is now
available at www.uksg.org/event/novconf2011/book 


Venue location details will be sent with confirmation of booking.

 

Cancellations

By Tuesday 8 November 2011 - full refund
From Wednesday 9 November 2011 - no refund

NB:  UKSG reserves the right to alter or vary the programme due to events or
circumstances beyond its reasonable control without being obliged to refund
monies.

 

 

 

Karen Sadler

Administrator

UKSG

Tel. +44 (0)1865 310834

Fax. +44(0)1865 310834

www.uksg.org

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