SCONUL Autumn Conference Programme

'The future of higher education' - meeting expectations

Monday 17 November 2003
The British Library Conference Centre, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB

10.30		Registration and coffee
Session 1
11.00		The Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP, Minister of State for Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education) The role of libraries in embedding e-learning in higher education, following the DfES consultation on e-learning
11.40		Karen Stanton, Director of the Learning Centre and University Librarian Meeting expectations. The customer focus
12.20		Professor Sir Gareth Roberts, President, Wolfson College, University of Oxford The future of the Research Assessment Exercise
13.00		Lunch
14.00		SCONUL Business briefing
Session 2
14.15		Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive, The British Library WILIP- Wider Information and Library Issues Project
14.55		Nancy Elkington, Research Libraries Group The US and RLG perspective on meeting user expectations
15.35		Helen Hayes, Vice Principal and University Librarian, University of Edinburgh The Australian perspective. How do Australian colleagues tackle similar challenges?
16.15		Tea and departure