Category: Conferences
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They order these things better: a review of #hlg2012
@Librarianpocket posted on twitter asking people to give their take home messages from the 2012 Health Libraries Group conference in Glasgow. I didn’t respond at the time, thinking the task too hard. I suppose, paraphrasing Sterne, I might say, ‘they order these matters better in Scotland’, for I and other delegates from the wrong side…
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32nd Annual Conference on Book Trade History: The Book Trade and the Classical World
I am disgustingly late in writing up my notes from the 32nd Annual Conference on Book Trade History: The Book Trade and the Classical World, which took place nearly a month ago. I plead pressure of work, and the difficulty of understanding my notes after such a time-lapse. This page may demonstrate some of the…
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CoFHE and UC&R Joint Conference
I'm off to Exeter for the CoFHE and UC&R Joint Conference next week. I've created, as a service to conference-going humanity, an iCal calendar of the programme. To subscribe, go to webcal://ical.me.com/tomroper/UCRSCoFHE.ics; to view online, go to http://ical.me.com/tomroper/UCRSCoFHE The twitter hashtag #exeter10 is already seeing a lot of traffic. But are we the only event…
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Conference going
Henry Green’s remarkable trilogy of novels, Living, Loving and Party Going, could have been followed by a fourth on conferences. This thought was prompted by a post on the excellent American team blog, In the Library with the Lead Pipe, on the matter of library conferences. They discuss the various conferences American librarians attend; I…
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UKSG
‘So what was the most interesting issue that came up at the [UKSG] conference?’ asked an e-mail that arrived this afternoon, as I hurtled south on the train to King’s Cross. I was stuck for a reply. It’s hard to process three days of rich ideas about more or less everything that librarians and publishers…
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En route to UKSG
I haven’t been to a conference for a very long time, but UKSG very kindly asked me to lead a work-out session at their conference in Edinburgh which starts tomorrow. How could I refuse? Once one of the globe-trotting conference going jet-set of the library world, I haven;t been to one for too long. And…
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JDCC09: sessions I tweeted
I’m fighting my way through the backlog of notes to write a final post on the JISC Digital Content Conference, wrapping up those sessions I haven’t covered yet. The unreliable wifi at the conference means that while I managed live tweeting for some sessions, others exist as notes on the PowerBook. Given the very full…
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JDCC09: the urge and surge of international collaboration
At a session led by Sarah Porter on international collaborations, three projects presented. Michael Popham of Oxford spoke about the Shakespeare Quartos project, which has digitised all 75 pre-1641 quarto editions of Shakespeare’s plays in a collaboration between Oxford and the Folger Shakespeare library in the USA, giving scholars new ways to study variant editions…
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JDCC09: Nick Poole on Digital Britain or Digital Landfill: free puppies and ten problems
I’m fighting my way through the backlog of notes to write some more posts on the JISC Digital Content Conference. The unreliable wifi at the conference means that while I managed live tweeting for some sessions, others exist as notes on the PowerBook. I may summarise the tweeted sessions too, in time. The third plenary…
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The stability of conference archives
I had an email the other day asking my permission for a presentation I gave at a conference in 2000 to be archived in an institutional repository at Washington State University; my small contribution was a paen to Vetgate, the animal health gateway built by the OMNI/BIOME project, and still going strong under Intute. WSU…
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OCLC Symposium at Online
The only thing that interested me at Online this year, apart from a few encounters with old friends, and seeing Brian ‘IWR Information Professional of the Year‘ Kelly of UKWebFocus fame clutching his Oscar-like award, was the OCLC Symposium, Who’s watching your space? Three speakers, John Naughton, journalist and academic at the Open University, Matt Brown…
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Collaborative Collection Management
Sally Curry of the Research Information Network whose presentation at the WESLINE colloquium I blogged last week, e-mailed me to point out that I underestimated the extent to which collaborative collection management has developed: ‘I was interested to read your comments about CCM. I am not sure that you are entirely correct about the lack…
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WESLINE colloquium: Exploding the Canon
I attended the WESLINE Colloquium, Exploding the Canon. From Medieval Romance to TV Soap:meeting the challenges in resource provision on 12 September at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies. David Pearson, Director, University of London Research Library Services (ULRLS) drew attention in his welcoming remarks to the problems libraries face. All University of London…
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Making Web 2.0 work for you and your library: further thoughts
I was sorry to miss, thanks to the train timetable, Mark Clowes’ overview of web 2.0 technologies and Bernice Baker’s presentation on blended learning. But I was there in time for an announcement by Ian Baird from Teeside University of the long overdue merger of the University Medical School Librarians Group and the University Health…
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Online: Libqual+
I went to Online at Olympia yesterday. The exhibition itself was the usual scrum, but there is nothing like wearing a badge saying Tom Roper, Unemployed, for protecting oneself against people trying to sell you things. Much more interesting than the exhibition was the Health Libraries Group event, a presentation by Lucy McCaskie of Gloucestershire…
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Online? Don’t bother
I was wondering whether to squander more of the children’s tuition fees fund on another conference and I thought of Online. There’s a stream on the second day entitled Social software – delivering value to 21st century organisations, which looked interesting. The first speaker listed in that session is Alex Bellinger from Audacious Communications. I…
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Internet Librarian International: final keynote: Creating Communities, Interacting with Users
The final keynote was given by Jenny Levine and Michael Stephens. Jenny observed that a word she had heard a great deal at the conference was community. But if you make a social tool available, you don’t automatically have community. How will you measure success? Possible metrics might include numbers of comments, subscribers, wiki contributors,…
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Internet Librarian International: Internet Research Intricacies: Out-Googling Google:Finding what Google Misses
UKEIG and CILIP’s very own Karen Blakeman, introduced by Marydee Ojala, spoke on alternatives to Google, though she offered some helpful advice on using the Beast of Mountain View, to wit to make sure that one uses the right section of Google, and to use advanced search options. Her slides can be seen here. In…
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Internet Librarian International: Internet Research Intricacies: What’s New with Search
Stephen Arnold gave a fascinating presentation, showing some new interfaces for search engines. He described three stages of the evolution of search, the brute force era of 1976-1998, the social+analytics era from 1998-2006, above all the period of Google and measuring inbound clicks, and the future, to 2010, of compound processes, that is to say…
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Internet Librarian International: Management Techniques: Auditing Your Intranet andCommunications Functions
Ulla de Stricker and Barbie Keiser talked about how to carry out planned and well-executed audits of information services. Audit need not bear the name audit, but at bottom is a process of finding out who is doing what to whom with what, a regular systematic examination of practices and needs . It helps provide…