Want to find out about creating a digital collection? Unsure what the
benefits are? Contemplating the creation of an iPhone app or interested
in seeing how a unique collection has been digitised? Then this is the
event for you...
Libraries are often criticised as being irrelevant in the digital age.
However, librarians have frequently been on the cutting edge of
developments, creating new and exciting ways to share collections that
would otherwise remain out of the view of the general public.
Digitisation provides many opportunities for libraries to transform
their services and bring them into the 21st century.
This half-day session aims to provide an insight into those
opportunities. As well as looking at the practical aspects of putting a
digital collection together, there will be the chance to hear about two
projects that demonstrate how libraries can continue to innovate in the
digital future.
Programme:
1.00-1.30: Arrival and registration with tea/coffee
1.30-1.40: Welcome
1.40-2.10: The impact and benefits of digitisation - Simon Tanner
(King's College)
2.10-2.40: Managing digitisation and preservation at the Wellcome
Library - Christy Henshaw (Wellcome Library)
2.40-3.00: Tea/coffee
3.00-3.30: Creating a smartphone application - Geoffrey Browell (King's
College)
3.30-4.00: The British Cartoon Archive - Nicholas Hiley (University of
Kent)
4.00: Summing up and close.
Venue: Room MAL G16 at Birkbeck College, University of London;
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/maps
For booking details, please see
http://www.cpd25.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_jcalpro&Itemid=99999999&extm
ode=view&extid=520
Thanks,
Ian Clark
Library Systems Officer,
Augustine House,
Canterbury Christ Church University
Email: [log in to unmask]
Tel. 01227 767700 ext 3141
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