Information Ecologies eLib Conference

Information Ecologies:
the impact of new information 'species'

2-4 December 1998
Viking Moat House Hotel, York

A conference organised by the Electronic Libraries Programme and co-ordinated by UKOLN

Conference Programme

2 December

11.00-12.30	Registration and refreshments
12.30-13.30	Lunch
13.30-14.45	Welcome and plenary sessions Chair: Lynne Brindley, University of Leeds Welcome Reg Carr, Chair CEI, Joint Information Systems Committee Opening plenary keynote address: Equilibrium and Opportunism: information strategies and the new environment (revised title) Jim Michalko, President, Research Libraries Group
14.45-15.30	Welcome and Plenary session: Technology for supporting learning: the UK Instructional Management Systems Project Oleg Liber, University of Bangor, or Paul Lefrere, The Open University
15.30-16.00	Refreshments
16.00-18.00	STRAND A: DEVELOPMENTS IN RELATED SECTORS The Library & Information Commission Tim Owen, LIC 'The Eye of the Needle?': university libraries and lottery funding Stephen Green, The Heritage Lottery Fund The EU's next round: R & D under FP5 to be backed by new focus on library services for the citizen Ian Pigott, European Commission DG XIII-E4	STRAND B: THE HUMAN FACE OF THE ELECTRONIC LIBRARY DISinHE: disability information systems in higher education Ian Webb, University of Dundee IMPEL 2: how do electronic libraries affect people? Joan Day, University of Northumbria at Newcastle TAPin: coping with an electronic library implementation programme Judith Elkin, University of Central England
19.00	Drinks reception

3 December

09.00-10.30

STRAND A: Panel session: The economics of electronic scholarly publishing

Panel members to include:

Fred Friend, University College London
Frank Fishwick, lately of Cranfield University
Phil Sykes, University of Huddersfield
Toby Bainton, SCONUL
Maria Bonn, PEAK Project, University of Michigan

STRAND B: Electronic reserve and digitisation: migrating information

HERON: building a national resource bank of electronic texts
Carolyn Rowlinson, University of Stirling

Approaches to digitisation
Clive Field, University of Birmingham

10.30-11.00

Refreshments

11.00-12.30	STRAND A: Panel session: Rights issues Panel members to include: Godfrey Rust, Data Definitions Keith Hill, New Technology Division, MCPS-PRS Alliance	STRAND B: Panel session: Informal publishing – pre-prints and magazines Panel members to include: Stevan Harnad, Cogprints, University of Southampton Phil Sheffield/Sam Saunders,EducatiOn-Line, University of Leeds Dan Fleming, Formations, University of Ulster
12.30-13.30	Lunch
13.30-15.30	STRAND A: Finding the stuff: new plans for subject gateways The Resource Discovery Network Centre’s approach Dan Greenstein, Director, Arts & Humanities Data Service Lorcan Dempsey, Director, UKOLN, University of Bath Richard Heseltine, Director of Academic Services & Librarian, University of Hull International subject gateway collaboration Susan Calcari, University of Wisconsin-Madison	STRAND B: Panel session: Formal publishing – electronic journals and other formats Panel members to include: Ken Eason, SuperJournal, Loughborough University Alan Vince, Internet Archaeology, University of York Henry Rzepa, CLIC, Imperial College Jason Miller, Digimap, University of Edinburgh
15.30-16.00	Refreshments
16.00-18.00	STRAND A: Clumps and document delivery Riding: Z39.50 gateway to Yorkshire libraries Peter Stubley, University of Sheffield LIDDA: an Australian document delivery project Kerry Blinco, Griffith University, Australia	STRAND B: Dealing with the stuff The library policy maker’s view Hazel Woodward, Cranfield University The library implementer’s view Ian Winship, University of Northumbria at Newcastle The hybrid library view Stephen Pinfield, BUILDER, University of Birmingham
19.30	Conference dinner

4 December

09.00-10.30	STRAND A: Panel session with video presentation: Digital preservation issues Panel members to include: Kelly Russell, CEDARS, University of Leeds Neil Beagrie, Arts & Humanities Data Service Nancy Elkington, Research Libraries Group Seamus Ross, University of Glasgow	STRAND B: Future digital library developments The US view Michael Freeston, Alexandria Digital Library Project, University of California Encryption and Watermarking Chris Zielinski, Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society
10.30-11.00	Refreshments
11.00-12.30	Plenary sessions Chair: Mary Auckland, The London Institute Research Support Strategy Ronald Milne, Director, Research Support Libraries Programme, University of Edinburgh Policy, Programme, Project: eLib review and prospect Lorcan Dempsey, Director, UKOLN, University of Bath
12.30-13.30	Lunch
13.30-14.30	Closing plenary keynote address: Publish and Perish! Paul Kobulnicky, Director, University of Connecticut and Member of the SPARC Steering Committee
14.30-15.00	Summing up and vale Chris Rusbridge, Director, Electronic Libraries Programme
15.00-15.30	Refreshments and departure

Information Ecologies: the impact of new information 'species'

2-4 December 1998 Viking Moat House Hotel, York

Conference Programme

Information Ecologies:
the impact of new information 'species'

2-4 December 1998
Viking Moat House Hotel, York