SCONUL/CARL exchange of experience seminar
'Cross Canada Checkup'
Monday 3 December 2007, 12.00-16.00hrs
The British Library Conference Centre, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) will be hosting an exchange of experience seminar for SCONUL.
This afternoon seminar will explore themes common to both communities, and will be a mix of informal plenary presentations
(from the Canadian participants) and breakout sessions for discussion. This event is the culmination of a UK tour.
List of delegates
Programme
| 12.00 |
| Registration and Lunch |
| 13.00 | Plenary Session – four 15 minutes presentations, Auditorium The AlouetteCanada Open Digitization Initiative Marnie Swanson, University of Victoria The Canadian Research Knowledge Network: Big Deals are a Good Thing! Carolynne Presser, University of Manitoba Vive la difference: cultural perspectives on library management Janine Schmidt, McGill University Congenial space and the university library Madeleine Lefebvre, Ryerson University | |
| 14.00 |
| 'Speed dating' Converging interests of Canadian Chief Information Officers and University Librarians, Mike Ridley, University of Guelph Auditorium Ontario Data Documentation, Extraction Service and Infrastructure Initiative (ODESI), Maggie Haines, Carleton University Meeting room 1 The Ontario Scholars Portal, Leslie Weir, University of Ottawa Meeting room 3 Data Mining – Measuring the Impact of Networked Electronic Services, Joyce Garnett, University of Western Ontario Meeting room 4 Each speaker will be stationed in a breakout room. The four groups of about 15 (made up of CARL/SCONUL members) will rotate to the next breakout room every half hour. Note that that there are four groups and three 30 minutes time slots so each group visits only 3 of the 4 breakout rooms |
| 15.30 |
| CARL/SCONUL networking session, Foyer This is an opportunity for delegates to meet with their counterparts to discuss matters dear to them as identified on the CARL Speakers’ List, especially where the topic has not been covered in a plenary or group session e.g. copyright, aspects of statistics, data management etc. |
| 16.00 |
| Wrap-up, Auditorium Anne Bell (Chair of SCONUL) and Leslie Weir (CARL President) |