My apologies to anyone who receives this message more than once.
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The next lecture in the Follett Lecture Series will be
"TRANSFORMING LIBRARIES AND LIBRARIANS FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY"
by
Sheila D Creth, University Librarian, University of Iowa
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Please note this lecture will be given TWICE in the following venues:
Wednesday 25 September at 18.30 Monday 30 September at 18.30
Room MD108 Cavendish Conference Centre
University of Ulster at Magee College 20 Duchess Mews
Northland Road LONDON W1M 8AD
LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland
>From the Ulster venue on 25 September, the lecture will be
videoconferenced to *Glasgow*, *Manchester* and *Cardiff*.
Please note that due to the experimental nature of the videoconferencing
link, we would ask for patience from participants at remote sites.
Every effort will be made to obtain the highest quality reception within
current technical constraints.
The remote sites are:
Room 317, James Watt North Building Room G99, Manchester Computing
University of Glasgow University of Manchester
University Avenue, GLASGOW Oxford Road, MANCHESTER
Room B03, Computing Centre
Cardiff University
40-41 Park Place, CARDIFF
As places are very limited at the videoconferencing remote sites, early
application is recommended.
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The synopsis appears below, and is also available at URL
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/follett/next.html
An on-line booking from is at URL
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/follett/appform.html
If you prefer to use e-mail, or to phone me, please do so. My contact
details are at the end of this message.
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SYNOPSIS
In planning for the 21st century, librarians have great possibilities for
enhancing and enriching their services as well as considerable liabilities
if changes are not initiated. The world of information at the end of this
century is very different to what it was at the beginning, and libraries
and librarians need to reflect this extraordinary change. Librarians now
work within a turbulent environment characterised by unrelenting change,
a flood of new and different electronic resources joining the continuing
expansion of print materials, and a global networked information world
that has no regard for regional, national or institutional boundaries.
In this environment, librarians everywhere are faced with fundamental
issues to address: translating and reshaping traditional values into the
electronic and networked information reality; defining new roles and
responsibilities for librarians: identifying and initiating new services
to meet user information needs; determining who are the primary users for
a library as more information sources and services are provided online;
identifying the new knowledgte and skills required of librarians as well
as support staff, and how these will be acquired; and, finally,
determining new organisation structures and processes to be most effective
in the fast-paced, networked world. However, the real challenges are
personal and organisational rather than technical.
Sheila Creth was appointed University Librarian at the Unive5rsity of Iowa
Libraries in 1987. Prior to this she held posts at the universities of
Connecticut, Michigan and Columbia, and with the Columbia University
Computing Centre. Ms Creth currently serves on the EDUCOM Board of
Trustees, the Steering Committee for the Coalition for Networked
Information, the Information Policies Committree for the Association of
Research Libraries, and the Board for the Centre for Research Libraries.
A frequent lecturer and writer in the field of librarianship, she also
acts as a consultant to libraries on organisation development and change.
Hazel
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