12.00

Registration, Jury's Inn Hotel

12.30

Lunch, Jury's Inn Hotel

14.00

Welcome
Anne Bell, Chair of SCONUL

14.15

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

14.45

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

15.15

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

15.45

Tea/coffee

16.15

Workshop and briefing sessions (Descriptions)

• 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

17.15

ends

19.00

Transport to the Botanical Gardens and evening stroll

20.00

Conference Dinner, sponsored by 3M
Garden Suite, Botanical Gardens
After dinner entertainment from Nachda Sansaar Bhangra Dancers

08.30

Sponsor session by Ex Libris

09.00

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

09.45

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

10.30

Tea/coffee

11.00

Workshop and briefing sessions (Descriptions)

• 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
• Open access publishing, Mark Patterson and Steve Hall

12.00

Lunch

13.15

AGM (to finish at 14.15)

14.30

Programme of visits

• Mary Seacole Library, UCE Birmingham
• Birmingham University Learning Spaces
• Barber Institute
• Soho House
• Blue Badge guided city walking tour
• Symphony Hall

18.20

Walk from Jury's Inn to Ikon Gallery, 1 Oozells Square (Directions)

18.30

Reception, Ikon Gallery
Welcome address from Pamela Taylor, Principal, Newman College

20.00

Dinner, Jury's Inn Hotel

09.00

Sponsor sessions

09.30

The University of Nottingham's international strategy
Christine Ennew, Professor of Marketing and Dean of Law & Social Sciences, Nottingham University Business School

10.15

Tea/coffee

10.45

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

11.30

The impact of information technology innovation on higher education Abstract
Michael Zastrocky, Managing Vice-President/Academic Strategies, Gartner

12.15

Closing remarks

12.30

Lunch and depart