Dear colleagues
With apologies for any cross posting, I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at the next sherif (formerly JIBS) event on the 24th February 2017.
Final date for booking is the 9th February.
Accessibility and eContent: is it fit for purpose for the 21st Century user?’
It will be held on 24th February 2017 at CILIP headquarters, Ridgemount Street, London from 09.45 – 14.45 9.30am-3.45pm. This will also be our AGM.
http://www.cilip.org.uk/venue/cilip
09.45: Registration
10.15: Welcome and overview of the day
10.20: Keynote speaker: Alistair McNaught, Subject specialist (accessibility and inclusion), JISC : Topic – to be announced
11.05 Tea break
11.30 James Scholes, http://jscholes.net/, “Screen Reader Accessibility in eBook Reading Applications”
12.00 Geraldine Huzar, Learning and Teaching Librarian, The Open University, ‘’The Open University and accessible learning’’
12.30: Lunch
13.15: AGM
13.30: Kate Vasili, Copyright Officer and Licence co-ordinator, Middlesex University, and Ruth Houghton, Subject Liaison Librarian, Middlesex University, ‘Supporting Students at Middlesex University: filling the accessibility gaps’
14.00: Gopal Dutta, Secondary Education Subject Librarian, Manchester Metropolitan University, “Collaboration is the key: working as part of a team to organise an audit of ebooks for accessibility”
14.30 Tea break
15.00 Panel discussion Q and A<http://www.jibs.ac.uk/workshops/epub/Panel-Discussion.pdf>
15.30 – 15.45 Closing remarks
Booking form<http://www.sherif.ac.uk/events.html>
sherif members can send one person free to this event.
Additional member places are £50.
Non member rates are £150.
Cancellations without charge will only be accepted up until the Thursday 9th February. sherif reserves the right to make a charge for any cancellations received after that date at a rate of £50.00 per delegate for member libraries and £150 per delegate for others.
sherif annual membership costs £100 p.a. with a 3 year offer of £275 for HE institutions and £50 p.a. for FE institutions. So, signing up for annual membership allows the institution to send one member free of charge to each of the 2 events held per year.
Any queries, please contact Elizabeth McHugh (sherif Chair)<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or Elaine Mulholland (sherif Vice-Chair)<mailto:Elaine%20Mulholland%20([log in to unmask])>
Elizabeth McHugh
Chair – sherif Committee
Electronic Resources Manager
University of the Highlands and Islands
Tel: 01349 780 217
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