Conference presentations

Wednesday 20 June

A lie told often enough becomes the truth: academic library veritas
James Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian, Columbia University

The liquid university: lamentation or liberation?
Ronald Barnett, Professor of Higher Education, Institute of Education, University of London

Towards superconvergence at MMU
Mary Heaney, Director of Services, Manchester Metropolitan University

Thursday 21 June

The early modern internet: how social software and semantic web technologies will help scholars move beyond 'digital incunabula' (PDF)
Geoffrey Bilder, Director of Strategic Initiatives, CrossRef

Mass and malleability: the opportunities and challenges of digital collections in academic libraries
David Seaman, Associate Librarian for Information Management, Dartmouth College Library

Friday 22 June

The University of Nottingham's International Strategy
Christine Ennew, Professor of Market and Dean of Law and Social Sciences, University of Nottingham

Net Gen learners and libraries
Joan Lippincott, Associate Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)

Workshop and briefing sessions

New directions in leadership, Anne Burrows
Knowledge management and the HE librarian: opportunity or threat?, Hilary Johnson and Sue McKnight
New markets, new students, new support structures, Janice Bell, Stephanie Holliday, Irene Ordidge and Chris Porter
UK Research Reserve, Nicola Wright
Book digitisation programmes, Ronald Milne
Virtual research environment, Brian Clifford
The National e-Books Observatory, Hazel Woodward
Open access publishing, Mark Patterson and Steve Hall