There are places still remaining on our seminar on Surviving the Recession: maximising your value.

Hosted by ASLIB Engineering and Technology Group and the Aerospace and Defence Librarians Group.

Imperial College London
170 Queens Gate, London SW7
Tuesday 15 November 2011, 10am-5pm

The one-day seminar will feature presentations on:

• Welcome address. Speaker: Frances Boyle

• Gathering statistics to prove support to students. Speaker: Penny Bailey

• Electronic collection management: how statistics can, and can’t, help. Speakers: Selena Killick and John Harrington

• Professional skills in an age of austerity: what matters most. Speaker: Maria Cotera

• Shared services. Speaker: Liam Earney

• Plone. Speaker: Lynne Seddon

• Using Koha @ the Kings Fund. Speaker: Matthew Hale

• Free software. Speaker: Phil Bradley

Note that the AGMs for both groups will be held after the sessions

Cost: Full day £70 to ASLIB/ADLG members, £90 to non-members

Half day ASLIB/ADLG £50 members and £60 to non-members.

Early bird discount to the first 20 non-members to book: £70

Lunch is included in the half-day sessions.

To book a place and for more information about the speakers/presentations contact: Jessica Goff, on [log in to unmask] or telephone 01793 785487

Speakers biographies:

1.  Welcome address

Speaker: Frances Boyle took up the post of Assistant Director Faculty Support Services at Imperial College London in July 2011. Previous incarnations have included stints as UK Research Reserve Manager, Executive Director of the Digital Preservation Coalition & IT Development Manager at the Bodleian Libraries at Oxford University.  Frances also worked at Liverpool University, the Cancer Research Fund and the Royal Society of Chemistry. Frances has also served as a member of the UKSG Committee and is a past Chair of the JIBS User Group Committee.

2. Gathering statistics to prove support to students

Speaker: 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. Bailey Solutions was the subject of a case study in Knowledge management for SMEs: solutions and strategies by Jela Webb (Ark Group, 2004). Penny is the 2006 winner of the BIALL / Lexis Nexis Butterworths Awards for Excellence with Brian Thomas for Best use of Technology in a Library Project for the BIALL web site. More recently Penny was a finalist in the Institute of Director's Southeast Region's Director of the Year Awards. Holding an RSA Fellowship, Penny is also an advocate for women’s enterprise. Penny has had a number of articles published in information journals over the years and has been Chair of Commercial, Legal and Scientific Information Group for CILIP since 2009.

3. Electronic collection management: how statistics can, and can’t, help
 
Speakers: 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. Selena is also retained by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) to support European consortia and wider international participation in the LibQUAL+ survey methodology, and regularly analyses survey data, presents, publishes and advises libraries on an international basis on library surveys. Selena is a member of the SCONUL Performance Portal sub-group and a committee member of MUDL: Managing and Understanding Data in Libraries.

And 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). John authored the chapter on Aerospace Engineering contained in: 'Information Sources in Engineering', 4th edition, edited by Roderick A Macleod and Jim Corlett. He co-ordinates the Cranfield University team that supports the AERADE (Aerospace and Defence) Internet information portal. John was also involved in the Cranfield led Managing Access to Grey Literature Collections (MAGiC) project phases I and II (2000 -2004), and is a member of the Cranfield team responsible for the CERES institutional repository.

4. Professional skills in an age of austerity – what matters most

Speaker: Maria Cotera gained a LIS degree at Granada University, Spain, following which she spent three years working as a public librarian in Tenerife, Canary Islands. She moved to London in 1999, gained her CILIP Chartership in 2002 and has been a very active CILIP member ever since. Shortly after her arrival in the UK Maria gained employment at the London School of Economics Library. In 2001 Maria was appointed to the library staff of University College London (UCL), London's leading multidisciplinary university. Maria left UCL at the end of July 2010 and is currently enjoying a break from paid employment while investing her time and energies in her professional interests. Maria is passionate about CPD and professional activism. She got 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. Maria's other professional interests include advocacy for libraries, access to information as a human right, women empowerment though education, and diversity and equality issues within the profession. 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.

5. Shared Services

Speaker: Liam Earney is Collections Team Manager at JISC Collections, where for the last 3 years he has been responsible for managing the licensing and negotiations for online academic content on behalf of universities and colleges in the UK. An essential part of those negotiations has been the migration of publishers and other providers of online content to UK Access Management Federation compliant technologies, the adoption of more wide ranging definitions of authorised users and the standardisation of permission for walk in users. Liam has over a decade's experience working with online content, and six years negotiating agreements with providers such as Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer, the BBC, Oxford University Press, ProQuest and Cengage Gale.

6. Plone
Speaker: Lynne Seddon

7. Using Koha @ the Kings Fund
Speaker: Matthew Hale

8. Free software

Speaker: 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 becoming SilverPlatters' 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.