12.00

Registration, Queens Hotel

12.30

Lunch, Queens Grill

14.00

Welcome and introduction, Queens Ballroom
Jane Core, Chair of SCONUL

14.15

Strategic Leadership, Management and Decision-Making
Dr Jonathon Riley, Director General & Master, Royal Armouries and former Deputy Commander of NATO ISAF in Afghanistan

15.00

Questions

15.30

Tea/coffee

16.00

Posters and exhibition

16.30

Libraries, Information and Research with Financial Consolidation
David Sweeney, Director for Research, Innovation and Skills, HEFCE

17.15

Questions

17.30

AGM

19.00

Reception in honour of Toby Bainton, Ark Royal
Hosted by Biddy Fisher, CILIP President. Speakers: Jane Core and Andrew Green - SCONUL past Chairs

20.00

Dinner, Queens Hotel

9:00

Academic Libraries of the Future - having your say
Geoff Curtis and Claire Davies (Curtis and Cartwright Consulting) Background briefing

Part 1 - Introduction
Part 2 - Round table discussions (scenario planning)
A discussion leader/facilitator and a tweeter will be provided for each table

11.15

Tea/coffee

11.45

Parallel sessions

• The future is orange. Reporting on the Netherlands Study Tour, John Charles 1
  Philip Cohen, Head of Library Services, Dublin Institute of Technology
• Shared access - an essential building block in a time of financial constraint, Queens Ballroom
  Philip Payne, Librarian, Birkbeck University of London
• We are the next generation so do not mess things up, John Charles 2
  Jackie Shaw, library school student, and Joe Kendal, graduate trainee, Leeds Metropolitan University, Rachel Bickley and Simon Wakeling, library school students, University of Sheffield
• Web 2.0 adding value in a period of financial challenge, John Charles 3
  Dave Pattern, Library Systems Manager, University of Huddersfield
• It's all about people: leading a subject team, Headingley
  Nicola Wright, Information Services Manager and Michelle Blake, Liaison & Service Development Manager, London School of Economics
• Higher Education Library Technology Wiki demonstration and opportunity to contribute, Rochester
  Ken Chad, Ken Chad Consulting

12.45

Libraries of the Future feedback session

13.00

Buffet lunch, Ark Royal

14.00

Programme of visits

• Royal Armouries (hosted by University of Leeds)
• Bronte Parsonage & Haworth village (hosted by Bradford University)
• Leeds Library & Harvey Nicks (hosted by Leeds Metropolitan University)
• Red House, Gomersal & Huddersfield University Library and Computing Centre (hosted by the University of Huddersfield)

18.15

Coaches depart for University of Leeds

18.30

Reception, Parkinson Hall, University of Leeds
Welcome by Margaret Coutts

19.30

Conference Dinner, The Refectory, University of Leeds

9.15

Parallel sessions / update sessions

• NorMAN Out of Hours Helpline - Growth from a Regional to National Shared Service, John Charles 3
  Trevor Cornwell, Chair NorMAN Management Board
• JISC's portfolio of studies on the economics of scholarly communication, Rochester
  Fred Friend, JISC Scholarly Communication Consultant, Alma Swan, Director, Key Perspectives Ltd
• JANET - who can use it and what for?, Headingley
  Shirley Wood, Head of Communications and Support, JANET (UK)
• SCONUL shared services project - from big picture to local impact, Queens Ballroom
  David Kay, Sero Consulting and Ken Chad, Ken Chad Consulting
• What do Toyota and The British Library have in common?, John Charles 2
  Andy Appleyard, Head of the Document Supply Service and Customer Services, The British Library
• A tale of Leadership Development, John Charles 1
  Linda Carter, Director, Chrystallise Consulting and Liz Jolly, Director of Library and Information Services, Teesside University

10.15

The RLUK/JISC Resource Discovery Vision - Alpha and Omega
Mike Mertens, Deputy Executive Director, Research Libraries UK

11.00

Questions

11.15

Tea/coffee, Ark Royal

11.45

Year two of the 'Great recession': surviving the present by building the future
Charles Lowry, Executive Director, Association of Research Libraries

12.30

Closing remarks, Fiona Parsons, SCONUL Chair

13.00

Optional lunch and depart