SCONUL Conference and AGM 2015

The scholarly environment 2025

This event is in the past. Presentations are available on our website.

This year’s conference will consider how the context in which academic libraries operate is likely to change over the next decade. We will explore an evolving political environment and changing approaches to scholarly practice, learning and teaching. Delegates will be challenged to consider how the library will lead in the institution to create outstanding services, environments and skilled professionals for the future.

Start & End Date : 
Wednesday, July 1, 2015 to Friday, July 3, 2015
Location: 

 

Grand Harbour Hotel
West Quay Road
Southampton
SO15 1AG

Tel: 023 8063 3033

Fax: 023 8063 3066

Email: info@grandharbourhotel.co.uk

 

 

Speakers: 
Cameron Neylon
Stephanie Marshall
Titia van der Werf
Philip Purnell
Oliver Pritchard
Andrew Kane
Thomas Leitch
Claire Warwick
020 7387 0317
Cost: 
£220-£605

This event is open to SCONUL members and invited persons only. If you are a non-member and wish to attend please get in touch with the SCONUL office.

 

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Conference sponsors

 

Conference Programme

Wednesday 1 July

14.15 - Informal visits to university libraries in Southampton and Winchester

18.30 - 20.00

Welcome drinks reception, Grand Harbour Hotel. Sponsored by RefME

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday 2 July

09.45 

Registration and coffee

10.25

Welcome from Liz Jolly, Chair of SCONUL

10.30

Viewpoints: Evolving practice over the next decade

  • Scholarly practice 2015 – 2025
    Cameron Neylon
  • 2025: What does the future hold? 
    Stephanie Marshall, Chief Executive Officer, Higher Education Academy

11.30

Coffee

12.00 

Keynote speech: The University and the Internet of Things
Irene Ng, Professor of Marketing and Service Systems, University of Warwick and Director, International Institute of Product and Service Innovation, Warwick Manufacturing Group

13.00  

Lunch

14.00 

Parallel sessions:  The scholarly library 2025

  • The system-wide library in 2025
    Titia van der Werf, Senior Program Officer, OCLC Research
  • The future of bibliometrics
    Philip Purnell, Customer Education and Thought Leadership Manager, Thomson Reuters
  • Space planning and the reinvention of the library?
    Oliver Pritchard,  Assistant Director, Student & Learning Support, University of Sunderland, Andrew Kane, Partner and Higher Education Sector Lead, FaulknerBrowns Architects and Steve Dickson, Senior Director for Interiors and Workplace Design, FaulknerBrowns Architects
  • What a difference a web makes: blended learning and the library
    Fiona Harvey, Vice-Chair, ALT and  Education Development Manager, Institute for Learning Innovation and Development (ILIaD), University of Southampton and Jane Stephenson, Head of the National Oceanographic Library and Head of Faculty Library Services, Engineering  and the Environment; Natural & Environmental Sciences; Physical and Applied Sciences, University of Southampton

15.00

Coffee

15.30

The SCONUL Fringe

16.15

Question Time panel discussion: Funding, policy and leadership 2015 – 2025

  • John Gill, Editor, Times Higher Education
  • Nick Hillman,  Director, Higher Education Policy Institute
  • Alison Johns, Chief Executive Officer, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education
  • Joanna Newman, Vice Principal (International), King's College London
  • Chair: Ann Rossiter, Executive Director,  SCONUL

17.15

Close

19.00

Conference Dinner, The Domus, Beaulieu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday 3 July

09.15   

SCONUL AGM

10.30  

Coffee

11.00    

Keynote speech: Faith and Facts: Scholars, Librarians, and the Challenge of Information Literacy
Thomas Leitch, Professor of English, University of Delaware

12.00

The SCONUL Fringe

12.45  

Lunch

13.30    

Parallel sessions:  The scholarly library 2025

  • The system-wide library in 2025
    Titia van der Werf, Senior Program Officer, OCLC Research
  • The future of bibliometrics
    Philip Purnell, Customer Education and Thought Leadership Manager, Thomson Reuters
  • Space planning and the reinvention of the library?
    Oliver Pritchard,  Assistant Director, Student & Learning Support, University of Sunderland, Andrew Kane, Partner and Higher Education Sector Lead, FaulknerBrowns Architects and Steve Dickson, Senior Director for Interiors and Workplace Design, FaulknerBrowns Architects
  • What a difference a web makes: blended learning and the library
    Fiona Harvey, Vice-Chair, ALT and  Education Development Manager, Institute for Learning Innovation and Development (ILIaD), University of Southampton and Jane Stephenson, Head of the National Oceanographic Library and Head of Faculty Library Services, Engineering  and the Environment; Natural & Environmental Sciences; Physical and Applied Sciences, University of Southampton

14.30

Coffee

14.50

Chaired discussion: The Librarian 3.0 

  • Barbara Fister,  Librarian, Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota
  • Oliver Obst, Director Medical Library, University of Münster 
  • Claire Warwick, Pro-Vice-Chancellor ( Research), University of Durham and  Hon Professor, UCL Department of Information Studies
  • Chair: Jo Norry, Chair of the SCONUL User Experience and Success Strategy Group and  Director of Libraries and Learning Innovation, Leeds Beckett University

15.35

Closing remarks  Liz Jolly, Chair of SCONUL

15.45

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