SCONUL Winter Conference 2014

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SCONUL Winter Conference

Conference programme

10.15	Registration
	Part 1: Perceptions
10.45	Welcome Liz Jolly, Chair of SCONUL and Director, Library & Information Services, Teesside University
11.00	Opportunities and Challenges for the Modern Academic Library: A VC’s perspective Professor Graham Henderson, Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive, Teesside University
11.40	Coffee break
12.00	Crowd sourcing narratives Groups will consider the views of stakeholders and draw on their collective expertise to develop key messages on how the library provides solutions and support for these audiences.
13.00	Lunch
14.00	SCONUL reflections: key challenges and opportunities for demonstrating value The Strategy Group Chairs and the SCONUL Chair will reflect on those narratives and how they are the basis for advocating for the library both in and out of the institution.
	Part 2: Evidence and advocacy
14.45	Case studies: Innovation in collecting evidence and demonstrating value
	Margaret Weaver, Head of Library & Student Services, University of Cumbria Leading for value added This session aims to provoke a discussion about the value of academic libraries to higher education and how to evidence it. Using the University of Cumbria as a case study, the speaker will outline how the LiSS leadership team distilled the key points about the Service, using poster presentations and performance outcomes, ensuring that messages about the value of the Service were understood. Data sets used to underpin these assertions will be briefly shared which will also help to test the sustainability of the approach and through audience engagement, enhance future practice. Andy Priestner, Information & Library Services Manager, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, will talk about the emerging ethnographic and anthropological approaches for understanding User Experience and speculate how this evidence could be used to advocate for the library within an institution. Lorraine Beard, Head of Digital Technologies and Services, University of Manchester Eureka – enabling student-led innovation and engagement at the University of Manchester Library Lorraine will describe how the Eureka student innovation challenge is creating a new partnership with students, by encouraging their creative ideas to improve services and raising the profile of the Library with the student community.n.
15.30	Coffee break
15.50	Title to be confirmed Paul Farmer, Chief Executive Officer, Mind
16.30	Closing remarks Liz Jolly, Chair of SCONUL and Director, Library & Information Services, Teesside University
16.40	Close and departure

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