SCONUL Summer Conference and AGM 2017

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Libraries Leading Change

This year’s conference will consider questions of leadership at a time of significant political and technological disruption. Delegates will hear the views of HE leaders on the potential impact of these changes and the challenges they present for those leading institutions and their libraries.  The conference will also look at questions of leadership in light of the longer-term trends which are impacting on libraries and how we might capitalise on the opportunities those changes bring.

Start & End Date : 
Monday, June 5, 2017 to Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Location: 

Hilton Newcastle Gateshead

Bottle Bank

Gateshead

NE8 2AR

Contact: 
SCONUL office
Cost: 
£220 - £605

This event is in the past.

Presentations can be found at https://www.sconul.ac.uk/page/sconul-summer-conference-2017-presentations

 

SCONUL Summer Conference 2017

5 June 18:30 - 7 June 07 15:50 (GMT +00:00 London)
Full conference attendance plus conference hotel for 5 and 6 June £605
Full conference attendance plus conference hotel for 6 June only £490
Full conference attendance only - no hotel £385
Day delegate 6 June £290
Day delegate 7 June £220

 

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Conference Programme

Monday 5 June

18.30-20.00

Welcome drinks reception, Gateshead Foyer, Hilton Newcastle Gateshead

Tuesday 6 June

10.00

Registration

10.30

 SCONUL AGM

11.00

Coffee

11.15

Introduction from Mark Toole, Chair of SCONUL

11.20

Keynote speech: Leading the 21st Century University – Challenges and Opportunities
Professor Judith Petts, Vice Chancellor, Plymouth University

12.10 

The SCONUL Fringe
13.00 Lunch

14.15

Parallel Sessions

  • Leadership Lounge: practical support for emerging, new and established leaders
    Alison Baud    , Director of Library Services, Bath Spa University and Chair, SCONUL Leadership Task and Finish Group
  • Reimagining sector collaboration: an update on the national digital library
    Mark Toole,  Head of Libraries and Learning Resources, Nottingham Trent University and Chair of SCONUL
  • Learning spaces and the borderless library
    Tessa Rogowski, Assistant Director, IT Services, University of Essex and Pete Ryan, Director of Library and Learning Resources, Canterbury Christ Church University and Vice Chair, SCONUL Transformation Strategy Group
  • Cracking the monograph challenge? Update on the Monographs Feasibility Study
    Kitty Inglis, Librarian, University of Sussex and Chair, SCONUL Content Strategy Group, Dr Hazel M Woodward MBE, Director, Information Power and Daryl Yang, UKRR Manager

15.15

Coffee

15.45

Provocations: Challenges for library leadership

  • Fostering diversity in higher education
    Vijaya Nath, Director of Leadership Development, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education
  • The view from above: strategic perspectives on library leadership
    Professor David Baker, Emeritus Professor, University of St Mark and St John, Plymouth and Principal Consultant, Sero HE Consultancy and Alison Allden OBE, HE Consultant, Sero HE Consultancy

17.00

Close

18.45

Meet in conference hall foyer to walk to BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art

19.00

Conference Dinner, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art

Wednesday 7 June

9.45

Panel Discussion: Shaping the library of the future

A discussion looking at some of the key issues and trends which will impact on the future of libraries and how libraries leaders might respond. 

  • Colleen Campbell, OA2020 Partner Development, Max Planck Digital Library
  • Simone Kortekaas, Head of Collection and Information Management, Wageningen University and Research
  • David White, Head of Technology Advanced Learning, University of the Arts London

10.45

Parallel Sessions

  • Leadership Lounge: practical support for emerging, new and established leaders
    Alison Baud    , Director of Library Services, Bath Spa University and Chair, SCONUL Leadership Task and Finish Group
  • Reimagining sector collaboration: an update on the national digital library
    Mark Toole,  Head of Libraries and Learning Resources, Nottingham Trent University and Chair of SCONUL
  • Learning spaces and the borderless library
    Tessa Rogowski, Assistant Director, IT Services, University of Essex and Pete Ryan, Director of Library and Learning Resources, Canterbury Christ Church University and Vice Chair, SCONUL Transformation Strategy Group
  • Cracking the monograph challenge? Update on the Monographs Feasibility Study
    Kitty Inglis, Librarian, University of Sussex and Chair, SCONUL Content Strategy Group, Dr Hazel M Woodward MBE, Director, Information Power and Daryl Yang, UKRR Manager

11.45

 Coffee

12.15

Keynote: What next for HE in the UK?
Alistair Jarvis, Deputy Chief Executive, Universities UK

13.00

Lunch

14.00

The SCONUL Fringe

14.45

Coffee

15.00

Keynote: The Library as a Liminal Space
Bill Thompson, Journalist, Commentator and Technology Critic

15.45

Closing remarks  Mark Toole, Chair of SCONUL

15.50

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