Monday 16 June
09.30-10.45 Conference registration
OPENING SESSION
Chair: Derek Law, King’s College London, UK
10.45-11.00 Welcome
John Arbuthnott, Chairman, Joint Information Systems Committee, UK
11.00-11.45 Opening Keynote Address
Information, Knowledge and Learning: the library in the digital age
(Michael Fitzgerald, Thames Valley University, UK)
11.45-12.45 First Plenary Session
The Dynamics of the Information Market
(Peter Lyman, University of California, Berkeley, US)
The Global Scholarly Information Infrastructure: global access to scholarly information - the quest for sustainable partnerships
(Neil McLean, Macquarie University, Australia)
12.45-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 FIRST PARALLEL SESSION
(a) In the Mountbatten Room
Telematics for Libraries: European Union projects and initiatives
(Patricia Manson, European Community, Luxembourg)
The Electronic Libraries Programme: hybrid libraries, clumps and preservation
(Chris Rusbridge, Electronic Libraries Programme, UK)
(b) In the Westminster Suite
Priorities for Digital Library Research: a view from the BLRIC
(Graham Jefcoate, British Library Research & Innovation Centre, UK)
The Digital Library in Japan
(Tamiko Matsumura, University of Library & Information Science, Japan)
15.00-15.30 Tea
15.30-16.30 SECOND PARALLEL SESSION
(a) In the Mountbatten Room
The Information Professions and Information Professionals
(Gerry Bernbom, Coalition for Networked Information, US)
Information Navigators: future professionals?
(Judith Elkin, University of Central England, UK)
(b) In the Westminster Suite
Dying for Information? a report on the effects of information overload in the UK and worldwide
(Paul Waddington, Reuters, UK)
16.30-17.30 PANEL SESSION
Copyright and Intellectual Property Rights: an international update
(Charles Oppenheim, De Montfort University, UK)
(Graham Cornish, The British Library, UK)
(Sarah Sully, JSTOR, US)
18.30-20.30 RECEPTION AND TOUR OF THE NEW BRITISH LIBRARY AT ST PANCRAS
Welcome by Brian Lang, Chief Executive, The British Library
Tuesday 17 June
09.00-10.00 SECOND PLENARY SESSION
Distributing the Library to the Learner
(Peter Brophy, University of Central Lancashire, UK)
Re-engineering the Learning Process
(Ronald Watts, Organisation Plus, Australia)
10.00-10.30 Coffee in the Mountbatten Lounge
10.30-11.45 THIRD PARALLEL SESSION
(a) In the Mountbatten Room
Cost, Quality and Value: assessing the networked information value chain at Indiana University
(Christopher Peebles, Indiana University, US
CNI’s ‘Assessing the Academic Networked Environment’ project: an update
(Joan Lippincott, Coalition for Networked Information US)
Evaluation of the Electronic Libraries Programme
(John Kelleher, The Tavistock Institute, UK)
(b) In the Westminster Suite
Metadata: a UK implementation
(Lorcan Dempsey, UK Office for Library & Information Networking, UK)
Metadata: moving from planning to implementation
(Clifford Lynch, University of California, US)
In the Company of Strangers: challenges and opportunities in metadata implementation
(Maxine Brodie, State Library of New South Wales, Australia)
11.45-12.45 THIRD PLENARY SESSION IN THE MOUNTBATTEN ROOM
Digital Library Plans for European National Libraries: the example of Britain and Germany
Beyond The British Library
(David Inglis, The British Library, UK)
Steps Towards a ‘Digital Library’
(Werner Stephan, Die Deutsche Bibliothek, Germany)
12.45-14.00 Lunch
CLOSING SESSIONS
Chair: Derek Law, King’s College London, UK
14.00-14.30 Concluding Keynote Address
Beyond Candle Factories: higher education in the information age
(Donald Langenberg, University of Maryland System, US)
14.30-15.15 Fourth Plenary Session
Authentication: progress in the US and the UK
(Clifford Lynch, University of California, US)
(Norman Wiseman, JISC, UK)
15.15-15.45 Tea and Departure