Presentations and papers

Annual Conference, 10-12 April 2002, Robinson College, CambridgeCB3 9AN

Plenary session: Digital content - the pleasures & pitfalls of ownership: preservation and access 

• The university library perspective, Peter Fox, University Librarian, Cambridge University

• Life After Cedars, Maggie Jones, Cedars (CURL Exemplars in Digital ARchiveS) Project Manager

• The distributed collection and preservation, Neil Beagrie, DPC (Digital Preservation Coalition)

• Can you trust publishers?  Archiving in the digital age, Dr Ian Jacobs, Managing Director, Editorial, Palgrave and Group Electronic Publishing Coordinator, Macmillan Publishers Ltd

Advisory Committee on Health Services, Nicky Whitsed, Director of Library Services, Open University

Providing a Virtual Induction & Development Environment, Ms Lindsay Martin, Edge Hill College of Higher Education and SCONUL Staff Development Award winner 2001

Plenary session: Building Bridges: providing access to cross-sectoral digital content

• Who's who and what's what: a whistlestop tour of current political, philosophical, programmatic and pragmatic efforts to build the Information Environment(s), Dr Paul Miller, Interoperability Focus UKOLN

• Building blocks and information architectures to support learning, teaching and research, Dr Liz Lyon, Director UKOLN

Plenary session Regionalism & Devolution: a stimulus for cultural partnerships

• A stimulus for cultural partnerships,Kathy Gee, Director of the West Midlands Regional Museums Council

• Wales, archives and digitisation, Gareth Haulfryn Williams, Assistant Director (Culture), Gwynedd Council
• Anne Bell, Director of Library Services at King's College London and currently Chair of the M25 Consortium

Plenary briefing session: Information skills task force

• Information skills in UK higher education: the SCONUL task force on information skills, Hilary Johnson, University College Northampton
• Information literacy: measurement and import, J. Stephen Town, Deputy University Librarian, Cranfield University

Workshops

• Making information strategy work, Claire Surridge, EVINCE Project Manager and Daniel Neyland, EVINCE Research Associate

• JISC Information Environment Development Strategy 2001-05, Catherine Grout, Programme Director, and Chris Pressler, Programme Manager, JISC Development Group

• RSLP ARCHway and Architectural drawings digitisation projects, Gordon Bower, ARCHway Project Manager, University of York and Patricia Whatley, University Archivist, University of Dundee

Plenary session: Economic issues of digital journals

• Scholarly communication crisis: setting the context, Paul Ayris, Director of Library Services, University College London
• Igniting change in the scholarly communication system, Julia Blixrud, Assistant Director/Public Programs, SPARC

Plenary session: Theory into practice: implementing the JISC Information Environment Strategy for access to distributed digital content, Catherine Grout, Programme Director and Chris Pressler, Programme Manager, JISC Development Group