In NAG’s 25th anniversary year, our 2011 Conference will be held at the iconic Palace Hotel in Manchester on the 7th and 8th September. This beautiful building is in a central location, with good transport links
http://www.palace-hotel-manchester.co.uk/
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Programme
In these times of change there is still much uncertainty surrounding academic and public libraries and this is likely to continue into the foreseeable future. The traditional image of a library is changing and will continue to change as we see developments in Library Management Systems, Changing Business Models, Use of Discovery Tools, EBooks and Etextbooks, The National Catalogue, and potentially Shared Services. With continued pressure on library budgets, the switch from print to e and the wealth of information resources now available in a variety of formats we all wonder what a library may look like in the coming years.
The theme of the 2011 NAG Conference is ‘Strategies for the Future’ and will look at various developments and examine some of the strategies that are being put in place that will define the services offered by libraries going forward. We will be looking at themes and ideas that are applicable to both academic and public libraries and will hear from speakers who have put some of these developments in to practice and they are drawn from a wide variety of librarians and industry practitioners.
As always the conference will include both workshops and plenary sessions from practitioners from a wide variety of backgrounds, who can share their experience in areas such as statistical analysis and shared catalogues, as well as looking at new developments in Library Management Systems, etextbooks, the latest resource discovery tools, and identifiers such as the ISNI. As in previous years, there will be numerous opportunities to network with publishers and library suppliers, and colleagues in both public and academic libraries, as well as a chance to share your own knowledge and experience.
Briony Heyhoe-Pullar
Charlotte Lane
Conference Organisers
DAY ONE
Keynote Address
We have been lucky enough to secure Ken Chad as our Keynote Speaker, and he will be launching the Conference after lunch on Wednesday 7th September.
Ken gained his MA from the Information Science Department at City University in London. He has over 20 years experience in the library software business and has worked with a wide range of academic, research, college, public, corporate and national libraries in the UK and throughout the world. His consulting activities include work on projects for the UK's JISC, SCONUL, and RIN as well as library system related projects for a range of libraries. He has published articles and presented widely on library technology and the strategic impact of technology driven change.
Ken is a committee member of UKSG and MUDL: Managing and Understanding Data in Libraries. He is a member of NAG.
He will be talking about Business Models, of which technology driven change is making people more aware. In the academic sector open access journals are based on different models to 'conventional' journal publishing. What's the best business model for delivering e-books in public libraries? Should libraries themselves look more closely at their own 'business models'? Ken will look at what business models are and how technology driven change is affecting them in the library domain.
The first day continues as follows:
Open source LMS - Dave Parkes (University of Staffordshire) & PTFS
Resource Description and Access (RDA) - Gordon Dunsire (Centre for Digital Library Research)
Workshops
There will then be a choice of 4 workshops (when booking, please indicate which one of these workshops you would like to attend, and indicate a 2nd choice in case your first choice is already full) –
• E-formats in public libraries - Jennifer Cox, Stock Services Unit Manager, Libraries, Leisure & Culture, London Borough of Bromley
• Library Impact Data Project - Graham Stone, Information Resources Manager, University of Huddersfield
• International standard identifiers e.g. ISNI & ISTC - Andrew MacEwan (Head of Collection Processing at the British Library) & Julian Sowa (Senior Manager, Nielsen Registration Services, responsible for the UK ISBN, SAN and ISTC registration agencies within Nielsen Book).
• Resource Description and Access (RDA) – Gordon Dunsire (Centre for Digital Library Research)
The day ends with a drinks reception for all delegates, followed by the three course conference dinner (with an element of a 25th birthday party!) and the return of the famous NAG conference quiz.
DAY TWO
Discovery tools
The second day opens with a session on discovery tools, with the following participants -
• Summon Dave Pattern (Library Systems Manager at the University of Huddersfield) & Richard Burkitt (Serial Solutions)
• Primo Gurdish Sandhu (UEL) & Robert Bley (Ex Libris)
• EDS Caroline Gibson (UCLAN) & Steve Giannoni (Ebsco)
And our conference continues with the following papers -
The National Catalogue and libraries on the web - Robin Murray (Vice President, OCLC Global Product Management)
Etextbooks and the JISC - Paul Harwood (Deputy CEO of JISC Collections)
Shared services/shared building - 'The Hive' - Darren Taylor, (Worcester University Library)
The future of the LMS - Karen Reece, (Capita - formerly Talis)
[More information will be posted about our speakers and their sessions as it becomes available]
This timetable is a little more compact than in previous years, starting immediately after an early lunch on Wednesday 7th, and will involve only one night’s stay for most delegates. The cost has been held for the 4th consecutive year at £325 per delegate for NAG members and £375 per delegate for non-members, with a daily rate of £125, or £200 for both days without the overnight stay. Booking is open via the NAG website http://www.nag.org.uk/events/registration.php
Judith
Judith Rhodes
Administrator
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