ASLIB Engineering and Technology Group is pleased to invite you to this 1-day seminar
Surviving the recession: measuring impact and moving forward
How can we weather the coming storm and prove the value of what we do/the service we provide?
Location: Imperial College
Date: Wednesday 22nd June 2011
Time: 9.50am - 4.00pm, registration will begin at 9.20 am
Cost: ASLIB E&TG member £70; non-members £90 (early bird discount to the first 20 non-members to book: £70)
Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
Contact Jessica Goff, on [log in to unmask] or 01793 785 487 to book a place.
Please provide the following details when booking:
• Contact details
• Dietary requirements
• Invoice details
The 1-day seminar will feature presentations on:
1. Coping with /surviving the recession
Speaker: Liz Davis
2. Shared Services
Speaker: Liam Earney
3. Gathering statistics to prove support to students
Speaker: Penny Bailey
4. Professional skills in an age of austerity – what matters most
Speaker: Maria Cotera
5. Electronic collection management: how statistics can, and can’t, help
Speakers: Selena Killick (nee Lock) and John Harrington
6. Free software
Speaker: Phil Bradley
To be followed by the Group's Annual General Meeting from 4pm-4.30pm
Liz Davis is Assistant Director of Library Services at Imperial College London. She is responsible for the outward-facing aspects of the library service and heads up the Faculty, Learning Development and Public Services Teams.
Liam Earney has been working at JISC Collections since 2003 as variously a Collections Manager, the Collections Team Manager and now Head of Licensing. In that time he has negotiated agreements with the likes of Ovid, Elsevier, Thomson Reuters, ProQuest, CUP and the RSC amongst many others. As well as negotiations on behalf of the UK academic community he has also worked on behalf of Museum libraries, the Irish Research electronic Library, SHEDL and currently NHS England, as well as participating in various JISC projects around licensing, rights clearance and open access and open content.”
Penny Bailey has worked in the library sector since 1986 both as a Chartered Librarian and a self-employed consultant, where she was involved in a significant number of projects to set up, trouble shoot or run library and information units. Her work experience also included training and project management roles. Penny is now Managing Director of Bailey Solutions which incorporated in 2002 and offers library software to help organisations of all sizes manage their library and information centres and enquiry services.
Maria Cotera was involved with the Career Development Group (CDG) in 2002, and has been really active on the CDG London & South East Divisions committee until her retirement in March 2011. At national level, she has served as CDG Honorary International Officer (2004-07), moved to the Career Development Group's Presidential Team in 2008, and became President in 2009. She translates these passions into her work within CILIP International Library and Information Group (ILIG), IFLA Management of Library Associations Section, and as Convener of IFLA Women, Information and Libraries Special Interest Group, which she founded in 2007.
Selena Killick (nee Lock) is the Research & Development Officer for the Barrington Library, Cranfield University, UK, with responsibility for the analysis of customer feedback and library performance data. This includes the development and implementation of models to guide planning and evaluation of library electronic resources and the management of the Cranfield University SCONUL Statistics submission. A list of published works is available at: http://diglib.shrivenham.cranfield.ac.uk/staff/locks
John Harrington BA (Hons), MA DipLib, MCLIP is Head of Information Services at Cranfield University's Kings Norton Library. He has considerable experience of research and other professional activities concerned with aerospace and engineering information. He has been involved in several major research projects including: EURILIA - an EC Framework III project (1992-1994), as well as two major studies of Aerospace Information Management in the UK and Europe (AIM-UK 1998-99, AIM-Eu 2001-2002).
Phil Bradley is a Chartered Librarian who has worked almost exclusively with electronic publications in his career. He worked for the British Council as an information officer before becomingSilverPlatters' European Head of Technical Support and then Global Director of Training. He became an Internet Consultant in 1995. He
teaches on many aspects of the Internet and has a particular interest in Internet Search and Social Media. He is currently CILIP Vice President, which is giving him the opportunity to spend more time in libraries exploring their use of electronic media.
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