Summary of the seminar: (PDF)
Chair: Diana Leitch, University of Manchester
This seminar will consider how the library as we have come to know it may be transformed. Will the twin pressures of financial constraints and technological advance mean a change in the publisher/library relationship? Will the advance of institutional repositories and open access and other means of delivery alter and fundamentally change the role of publishers? How will this affect how they deal with their most important customer? Will the new methods used by researchers to access the literature and communicate make an important impact? How will the role of the librarian evolve in an instant access Web 2.0 world?
By presenting the views of a practising librarian, society publisher, scientific researcher and library technology provider, the meeting gives a fascinating insight into the challenges facing our industry. A panel of speakers and other experts provide an opportunity for an exchange of views on what the future might hold.
Who should attend: this seminar will appeal to publishers from both the sales and marketing and editorial sides of the profession as well as to librarians themselves.
PROGRAMME
0930 Registration - Tea/Coffee
1000 Introduction
Diane Leitch, University of Manchester
1015 The Library User's Perspective of the Future
Andreas Mittrowann, Bertelsmann Foundation (PDF)
1045 How publishers are changing the way they deal with libraries
Helen Cooke, SAGE Publications (PDF)
1115 Can society publishers adapt to a changing library environment?
Adam Marshall, The Biochemical Society/Portland Press (PDF)
1145 Tea and Coffee
1215 Library Systems of the Future
Robert Bley, ExLibris (PDF)
1245 Lunch
1345 A Researcher's Perspective
Sarah Coulthurst, Research Biochemist (PDF)
1415 A parallel universe? - blogs, wikis, Web 2.0 and a complicated future for scholarly communication?
David Smith, CABI (PDF)
1445 Tea and coffee
1515 The view from an Academic Librarian's Perspective
Kara Jones, University of Bath (PDF)
1545 Panel Discussion
1615 Final questions and close
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