12.00

Registration, Apex International Hotel

12.30

Lunch, Metro restaurant

14.00

Welcome
Anne Bell, Chair of SCONUL

Session 1: Think global

14.15

The network reconfigures the library: institutional and systemwide responses
Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President and Chief Strategist, OCLC

15.00

The Google generation: myths and realities
Dr Ian Rowlands, CIBER Director, UCL:SLAIS

15.45

Tea/coffee

16.30

Plenary discussion on global issues

17.30

Session ends

19.00

Reception, Jacobite Room, Edinburgh Castle, sponsored by Microsoft
Welcome address from Professor Tim O’Shea, Principal of Edinburgh University

20.30

Optional dinner at respective Apex hotels

22.00

Optional ghost tour

Session 2: Think national

9:00

Sympathy, synthesis and synergy: the Scottish collaborative agenda
Sheila Cannell, Director of Library Services, Edinburgh University

9.20

National provision of e-information, the IReL initiative in Ireland
Robin Adams, Librarian, Trinity College Dublin

9.40

Research repositories and the role of libraries
Dr Malcolm Read, JISC Executive Secretary

10.00

The UK Research Data Service - a shared service answer to our local problems
Jean Sykes, Librarian and Director of IT Services, London School of Economics and Political Science

10.20

UK Research Reserve: an update
Debby Shorley, Director of Library Services, Imperial College London

10.40

Tea/coffee

11.15

Workshops (Descriptions)

• Discovering Library 2.0 - library services for the Google Generation, Ken Chad
• The world turned upside down: global and local practices from academic libraries in the southern hemisphere, Sue Roberts, John Redmayne, Sue Pharo
• Research support - now and into the future, Phil Sykes, Moira Bent, David Clay
• The Cilip/SCONUL Health Strategy Group - helping us to help you, Kath O'Donovan
• Mass digitisation and e-books workshop, Jonathan Bengtson
• The SCONUL Performance Portal: collecting the local to share with the global, Stephen Town, Tracey Stanley
• Is there a place for libraries in Second Life?, Marshall Dozier, Vicki Cormie, Denny Colledge , Sheila Webber
• Key media messages, Elliot Frankal

12.30

Lunch

13.30

AGM

14.30

Programme of visits (Descriptions)

• National Library of Scotland
• Edinburgh University Main Library Redevelopment
• Edinburgh College of Art
• Queen Margaret University
• Napier, War Poets Collection
• Scottish Parliament Information Centre
• Royal College of Physicians
• Edinburgh Literary tour
• Scottish Poetry Library

18.30

Reception, National Library of Scotland
Welcome address from Martyn Wade

20.00

Conference Dinner, sponsored by Ex Libris
Signet Library
After dinner entertainment from Jennifer Logan, mezzo soprano and Margaret Donaldson, piano

Session 3: Act local

9.30

Why libraries are too important to be left to librarians, part 1
Professor Andy Lawrence, Head of the School of Physics, Edinburgh University

9.50

Why libraries are too important to be left to librarians, part 2
Hugh Masters, Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Care, Napier University

10.10

Locally devoted to you - learner-centred services in the context of diversity
Sara Marsh, Director of Learner Support Services, University of Bradford

10.45

The local library response to the emerging environment
Sarah Thomas, Director of University Library Services and Bodley’s Librarian, University of Oxford

11.20

Tea/coffee

Session 4: Think global, act local

12.00

The local in the global: academic and research library services in the information society
Alex Byrne, Librarian, Sydney University of Technology

12.45

Closing remarks, Jane Core, SCONUL Chair

13.00

Lunch and depart