Library building projects and partnerships: making them work for all of the stakeholders

  Seminar Programme

  Wednesday 5 December 2007
  Wellcome Collection Conference Centre, London


09.30

Registration and coffee

10.00

Introduction
Sheila Cannell, Director of Library Services, University of Edinburgh. Chair, SCONUL Working Group on Space

10.10

Keynote address: Obtaining value for money from construction projects
Dr Stuart Kings, Docté Consulting

10.50

A new Research Library at University College Cork: managing expectations…and experts
John Fitzgerald, University Librarian, University College Cork

11.10

Going Native? Planning and delivering innovative learning spaces through partnership
Margaret Weaver, Head of Learning and Information Services, University of Cumbria

11.30

Coffee

11.45

The Information Commons at the University of Sheffield: politics and people
Kathleen O’Donovan, Associate Director, Planning & Resources Group, University of Sheffield

12.25

Panel discussion and questions

12.45

Lunch

13.30

Planning and Designing Technology-Rich Learning Spaces: Project organisation and management information
Jacquie Kelly, Senior Adviser, JISC infoNet

13.50

Introduction to afternoon session

14.00

Workshops (6)

14.45

Plenary session and feedback from workshops

15.30

Concluding remarks

15.45

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