Dear colleagues
With apologies for any cross posting, I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at the next sherif (formerly JIBS) event on the 24th February 2017.
Accessibility and eContent: is it fit for purpose for the 21st Century user?’
It will be held on 24th February 2017 at CILIP headquarters, Ridgemount Street, London from 09.45 – 14.45 9.30am-3.45pm. This will also be our AGM.
http://www.cilip.org.uk/venue/cilip
09.45: Registration
10.15: Welcome and overview of the day
10.20: Keynote speaker: Alistair McNaught, Subject specialist (accessibility and inclusion), JISC : Topic – to be announced
11.05 Tea break
11.30 James Scholes, http://jscholes.net/, “Screen Reader Accessibility in eBook Reading Applications”
12.00 Geraldine Huzar, Learning and Teaching Librarian, The Open University, ‘’The Open University and accessible learning’’
12.30: Lunch
13.15: AGM
13.30: Kate Vasili, Copyright Officer and Licence co-ordinator, Middlesex University, and Ruth Houghton, Subject Liaison Librarian, Middlesex University, ‘Supporting Students at Middlesex University: filling the accessibility gaps’
14.00: Gopal Dutta, Secondary Education Subject Librarian, Manchester Metropolitan University, “Collaboration is the key: working as part of a team to organise an audit of ebooks for accessibility”
14.30 Tea break
15.00 Panel discussion Q and A<http://www.jibs.ac.uk/workshops/epub/Panel-Discussion.pdf>
15.30 – 15.45 Closing remarks
Booking form<http://www.sherif.ac.uk/events.html>
sherif members can send one person free to this event.
Additional member places are £50.
Non member rates are £150.
Cancellations without charge will only be accepted up until the Thursday 9th February. sherif reserves the right to make a charge for any cancellations received after that date at a rate of £50.00 per delegate for member libraries and £150 per delegate for others.
sherif annual membership costs £100 p.a. with a 3 year offer of £275 for HE institutions and £50 p.a. for FE institutions. So, signing up for annual membership allows the institution to send one member free of charge to each of the 2 events held per year.
Any queries, please contact Elizabeth McHugh (sherif Chair)<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or Elaine Mulholland (sherif Vice-Chair)<mailto:Elaine%20Mulholland%20([log in to unmask])>
Elizabeth McHugh
Chair – sherif Committee
Electronic Resources Manager
University of the Highlands and Islands
Tel: 01349 780 217
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