Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 11:47:15 +0000
From: GEDYE Richard <GEDYER@OUP.CO.UK>
Subject: SeminarTHE MANAGEMENT OF ELECTRONIC INFORMATION IN LIBRARIES

SPIDERS OR FLIES: THE MANAGEMENT OF ELECTRONIC INFORMATION IN
LIBRARIES

A two-day seminar organised on behalf of the National Acquisitions
Group and United Kingdom Serials Group by Mary Morley and Hazel Woodward at
Eynsham Hall, Witney, Oxfordshire

7 and 8 May 1997

`Spiders or flies' will concentrate on the issues, policies and practices
involved in making information in electronic form available to users in all
types of libraries, with papers covering such strategic issues as user
interfaces; networks; hardware and infrastructure; economic policies; copyright
and training.

The programme will give senior managers in the academic, commercial and public
library environments, as well as publishers and electronic information
providers, access to informed thinking on the various aspects of this
rapidly-changing area.  It will also offer an ideal opportunity for delegates
to update their knowledge through participation in exchange of experience
discussions with professional colleagues.  The seminar is the third joint
initiative of the two major professional interest groups NAG and UKSG, and
follows the success of `Taming the electronic jungle' and `Endangered species?'

PROGRAMME

WEDNESDAY 7 MAY

11.10   Parlour games: keynote address
        Derek Law
        Director of Information Services and Systems,Kings College London

11.45   Information for all? The public library dimension
        Bill Macnaught
        Director of Libraries and Arts, Gateshead Libraries

13.45   Access versus holdings: beyond the rhetoric
        John Blagden
        University Librarian, Cranfield University

14.30   Access to information for a local community: practical problems
        and solutions
        Heather Kirby
        Head of Reference and Information Services, Croydon Libraries

15.45   The digital mousetrap
        Neil Smith
        Assistant Director, Digital Library Project, The British Library
16.30   Discussion, with speakers' panel

19.30   dinner

THURSDAY 8 MAY

9.00    Tightening the Net: copyright restrictions in the digital age
        Sandy Norman
        Information Manager (Legal and Parliamentary), The Library Association

9.45    How sticky is the Web?
        Johannes Velterop
        Managing Director, Academic Press Ltd

11.00   Managing the transition from paper to electronic text: implications
        for libraries and publishers
        Paula Kingston
        Acorn Project Manager

11.45   Training as a means to manage rapid change
        Kay Flatten
        TAPin Project Manager

13.45   Funding the provision of electronic information
        Tom Graham
        University Librarian, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

14.30   Discussion, with speakers' panel
        Summing up
        Bernard Naylor
        University Librarian, University of Southampton

BOOKING FORM

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Registration:

NAG or UKSG member:             215stg (+ VAT)
Non-member:                     225stg (+ VAT)

Special dietary requirements:

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Fee includes meals and refreshments throughout the seminar, and accommodation
for the night of 7 May.

Payment:

        Cheque to follow (payable to the UK Serials Group)
        Invoice required

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Closing date: 11 April 1997

Email completed form to:

        Jill Tolson, Business Manager, UK Serials Group
        uksg@dial.pipex.com

Further details available from Jill Tolson,
        tel 01993 703466  fax 01993 778879