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Annual Conference
QUALITY FOR ALL
Loughborough University
12 - 14 September 2001
Cost
NAG Members: £290.00 (Excluding VAT)
£340.75 (Including VAT)
Non-members: £351.00 (Inc. 1 year's free membership, excluding VAT)
£401.75 (Including 1 year's free membership and VAT)
Day Delegates: £120.00 (Excluding VAT)
£141.00 (Including VAT)
Closing date for applications - 17 August 2001
Acknowledgements and joining instructions will be sent week commencing 20 August 2001.
Conference Organisers: Janet Allan and Jo Grocott
Outline
This year s conference focuses on quality for all: social inclusion and acquisitions, service standards/performance measurement, hard-to-find or out-of-print items, and electronic materials are all covered. Sessions on the supply chain include an opportunity to participate in an 'open forum' discussion.
PROGRAMME
WEDNESDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2001
13.30 - 15.00 Registration
15.00 Welcome and opening of Conference
David Fisher, NAG Chair : Mary Morley, University Librarian
15.10 Keynote address
Bernard Naylor, President, The Library Association
15.50 Tea
16.20 Social inclusion and acquisitions
Sandra Parker, Senior Lecturer, School of Information Studies, University of Northumbria at Newcastle
17.50 New delegates reception
18.15 Library Association / Whitaker Reference Awards and reception for all delegates
19.30 Conference Dinner
Guest Speaker: Simon Armitage
21.30 Annual Quiz
THURSDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2001
9.30 The changing supply chain
Vincent Conran Managing Director, Farries
10.15 NAG Annual General Meeting
10.45 Coffee
11.15 E-books, e-publishing: the changing face of consumer book publishing.
Mark McCallum, Deputy Group Marketing Director and Head of Online and e-Publishing, The Random House Group.
12.00 Open Forum on the supply chain
Chair, Tim Cotterall, Commercial Director, Askews Library Services
with Vincent Conran, Mark McCallum, Bob Kelly - Publishers Services Manager, Gardners and John Cressey of Severn House.
13.00 Lunch
14.15 Workshop Sessions - Details on registration form, please select in order of preference.
15.45 Tea
16.15 Tour - Loughborough University Library. Please book a place on registration form.
19.30 Dinner, followed by the NAG Disco
FRIDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2001
9.15 Workshop Sessions - Details on registration form, please select in order of preference.
10.45 Coffee
11.15 E-books: where next?
Christopher Warnock, Chief Executive Officer, Ebrary
12.00 What will quality mean in the future?
Tom Forrest, Director, Opening the Book
12.45 Summary discussion and close of Conference
13.00 Lunch, please indicate on registration form if you require lunch.
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM
Please use one registration form per delegate, photocopy for additional bookings and return this registration form to:-
NAG Administration, Lime House, Poolside, Madeley, Crewe, Cheshire,
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Special dietary needs e.g. Vegetarian/Vegan
Please indicate any particular access needs caused by disability or injury
WORKSHOP TITLE -
(Unless indicated, these sessions will run on both Thursday and Friday)
Thursday pm
Friday am
Service standards/performance measurement - Liz Hart, Director of Library and Learning Resources, Staffordshire University with Janet Weaver.
Service standards, Public Libraries (Thursday pm only)- Tony Durcan, Deputy Director, Libraries & Arts, Gateshead M.B.C.
Managing e-books - Linda Vendryes, Vice President, Electronic Services, Coutts Information Services.
Out-of-print and hard-to-find books - Geoff Gilbert, Acting Assistant Director, Collection Management, University of Birmingham Information Services.
PELICAN: solving the price problem. A closer look at pricing models for the delivery of digitised texts for the HE sector - Thursday pm, Iris Rubbert and Rachel Hardy, PELICAN Project, University of Loughborough. (Friday, Professor Charles Oppenheim and Rachel Hardy)
Social inclusion - Howard Matthew, Group Manager, Bibliographic Services, Sheffield Libraries, Archives and Information Services.
Please indicate your choice of workshop session, 1-6, on the appropriate day.
Tour, Thursday pm - Loughborough University Library (40 Places Max)
Friday Lunch - Please tick to indicate choice
No Lunch
Packed Lunch
Served Lunch
TRANSPORT FROM LOUGHBOROUGH STATION
Courtesy coaches will be available on Wednesday 12 September to transport NAG conference delegates from Loughborough station to the University. Please indicate here if you would like to reserve a seat.
Please book me on the coach leaving Loughborough station at 13.30
Please book me on the coach leaving Loughborough station at 14.15
CONFERENCE FEES
The residential rate is inclusive of dinner and en-suite accommodation for the nights of 12 and 13 September. Accommodation only is also available on request for the nights of the 11 and 14 September at an additional cost, please contact the NAG office for more details
No fees will be refunded for cancellations received after the closing date of 17 August, 2001. Prior cancellations will be subject to an administrative charge of £25.00. Tax invoices will be issued.
Payments should be made in favour of National Acquisitions Group.