PROGRAMME

Supporting off-campus learning and ensuring service quality

  10.30 Registration and coffee, Foyer
  11.00

Supporting the development of scholarship skills through the online digital library, Auditorium 
Diana Laurillard, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Open University

  11.45 Five parallel sessions:

Copyright issues: an update, Meeting Room Three
A briefing by Toby Bainton, SCONUL Secretary

e-book services, Auditorium
A paper followed by questions. Louise Edwards, Collections Manager, DNER, Cranfield University

e-journal issues: access, pricing, future directions, Meeting Room One
A workshop directed by Alison McNab, DNER Collections Manager, Journals & Discovery Tools, King's College London

Filling the empty chair: briefing and update on the HIMSS project, Meeting Room Two 
A briefing by Christine Abbott, Assistant Director, Planning and Administration, University of Birmingham and Clare Nankivell, Project Researcher, Centre for Information Research (CIRT), University of Central England, Birmingham

Providing remote access to information 24/7, Meeting Room Four
A workshop directed by Ian Winship, Electronic Services Manager, University of Northumbria

  12.45 Lunch
  14.00 SCONUL Business meeting, Auditorium
  14.25

Access for distance learners, Auditorium 
Elizabeth Heaps, University Librarian, University of York

  14.55

Virtual learning environments, Auditorium
Sue Roberts, Head of Library and Information Services, Edge Hill

  15.25

Ensuring quality of support in smaller academic libraries, Auditorium
Vanessa Crane, Head of Library and Learning Resources, Kent Institute of Art & Design

  15.55 Tea
  16.30 End