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Still places available in courses for library management at
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rafael Kasprowski)
Tue Apr 20 21:22:12 2004
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 09:55:36 -0500
From: Rafael Kasprowski <rkasprowski@UH.EDU>
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Dear list subscriber,
We would like to draw your attention to the new courses of the International
Ticer School, formerly known as International Summer School of the Digital
Library. In these high-standard courses experienced international lecturers
will deal with several interesting and current topics. There are still
places available.
The International Ticer School will offer the following library management
courses in 2004.
* The Digital Library and e-Publishing for Science, Technology, and Medicine
(4.5 days)
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 13-18 June 2004
Website http://www.ticer.nl/04stm/
* Return on Investment for Libraries and Information Services (2 days)
Tilburg University, the Netherlands, 27-29 June 2004
Website http://www.ticer.nl/04roi/
* Electronic Resources and Electronic Publishing (3 days)
Tilburg University, the Netherlands, 10-13 August 2004
Website http://www.ticer.nl/04elres/
* Library Strategy and Key Issues for the Future (2 days)
Tilburg University, the Netherlands, 15-17 August 2004
Website http://www.ticer.nl/04strat/
* Change: Making it Happen in your Library (3 days)
Tilburg University, the Netherlands, 17-20 August 2004
Website http://www.ticer.nl/04change/
The last three courses can be conveniently combined.
Registration via http://www.ticer.nl/form/form04.htm.
1. The Digital Library and e-Publishing for Science, Technology, and
Medicine
An ideal opportunity for STM librarians to get an overview of where STM
libraries are heading, at the attractive location of CERN in Geneva,
Switzerland.
Where and when
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. Sunday afternoon 13 up to and including Friday
morning 18 June 2004, with an optional programme on Friday afternoon.
Target group
Library managers, librarians, reference librarians, subject specialists,
publishers and other information professionals in the fields of science,
technology, and medicine (STM). Advanced libraries will mainly be addressed,
without excluding the less technically advanced libraries.
Subjects
Changes in the information chain; new roles of publishers on the Internet;
the library as the information gateway, the library as a publisher;
licensing options; library consortia: success, realism and myth; electronic
preprints: document servers and institutional repositories; reference
linking; library case studies.
Course director
Rick Luce, Director, Research Library, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA,
is known as both an information technology pioneer and organisational
innovator. Rick has held numerous advisory and consultative positions
supporting digital library development and digital publishing, and is a
well-known international speaker.
2. Return on Investment for Libraries and Information Services
It is becoming more and more important to demonstrate the economic impact of
libraries and information services to management or client environment. For
the very first time, these important management issues have been tailor-made
in a course context for library managers.
Where and when
Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Sunday evening 27 up to and including
Tuesday 29 June 2004.
Target group
Those working in libraries and knowledge centres as directors, librarians,
senior managers, deputy managers, department managers and at those aspiring
to these positions.
Subjects
The issues of the organisational benefits from libraries or information
services, expressed in Return of Investment, business case, fluctuating
budgets, financial and functional models, and the activities and
responsibilities connected to these topics.
Course director
Boyd Hendriks, General manager, Informationland, UK/NL, accompanied many
companies and governmental organisations in the professionalisation and
transformation of their information and knowledge processes. Boyd invented
knowledge measuring instruments and knowledge mapping tools and successfully
applied them to several organisations.
3. Electronic Resources and Electronic Publishing
The course aims to support university and research libraries in the current
transitional phase and to identify new roles and opportunities for them.
Where and when
Tilburg University, the Netherlands, Tuesday evening 10 up to and including
Friday 13 August 2004.
Target group
Library managers/directors, IT or systems librarians, licensing officers,
and digital library project managers from academic and research libraries.
The course is also highly relevant for publishers.
Subjects
Changes in the information chain and trends in e-publishing; library
consortia: success, realism, myths and second thoughts; IT trends and
developments; changing views on copyright issues; licensing options; new
roles of publishers on the Internet; the art of negotiating; electronic
preprints: the Open Archives Initiative; document servers in support of
education and research; open access in practice.
Course director
Hans Geleijnse, CIO, Director of IT Services and University Librarian,
Tilburg University, NL, is responsible for strategic policy development and
coordination in the field of the university's information and
computerization policy. Hans has been heavily involved in library consortia,
digital library and electronic publishing initiatives.
4. Library Strategy and Key Issues for the Future
In times of turbulent change, strategy is becoming ever more important for
organisations in order to survive. Libraries in (higher) education are
facing several challenges at the same time: the world of learning is
changing rapidly; the demands from researchers are becoming more critical;
technology offers possibilities but at the same time developments in this
area are dazzling; many libraries face budget cuts. How to deal with these
complex and intertwined issues is the topic of the course. Leading speakers
will lecture about strategic issues, presenting their vision for the coming
3 to 5 years. These visions will be discussed, enabling managers to
anticipate trends when planning and formulating their own library policy.
The course is an ideal opportunity to get a broad view of where libraries
are heading in general and how to use these visions in formulating a
strategy for particular libraries.
Where and when
Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Sunday evening 15 up to and including
Tuesday 17 August 2004.
Target group
Directors, other senior managers, and those aspiring to these positions from
academic/research libraries. At the same time the course is of interest to
parties working closely together with libraries in dealing with the
challenges they face, notably senior staff from computer centres as well as
senior managers from publishing houses.
Subjects
The first day will be dedicated to broad strategic issues (strategy,
technology, learning, research). The second day explores major trends in
four areas that are rapidly developing (scholarly communication, metrics,
knowledge management, library strategy in times of budget cuts).
Course director
Michael Breaks, University librarian, Heriot-Watt University, UK, has wide
experience of library management and has been University Librarian of
Heriot-Watt University since 1985. He has been a member of a number of UK
policy-making committees.
5. Change: Making it Happen in your Library
The course aims to identify new opportunities for libraries, to support
librarians in developing a vision, and to provide librarians with tools to
initiate a change in their own organisation.
Where and when
Tilburg University, the Netherlands, Tuesday evening 17 up to and including
Friday 20 August 2004.
Target group
Library managers/directors and other senior managers from academic and
research libraries involved with strategic change.
Subjects
The changing outside world, library vision, new ways of supporting research
and learning, strategic planning, models and frameworks for change
management, managing the process of change, organisational change, managing
resistance, communication, human resource aspects of change, human resource
management, and improvement programmes.
Course director
Jan Wilkinson, University Librarian and Keeper of the Brotherton Collection
at the University of Leeds, UK, has wide experience of a variety of academic
libraries, and has spent fifteen years as a senior manager. In her time at
Leeds, she has been responsible for the leadership and development of the
University Library, with a particular emphasis on human resource management
and the direction of organisational change.
Organisation
The courses are organised by Ticer B.V., known from the International Summer
School on the Digital Library, in cooperation with Tilburg University in the
Netherlands, the Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library in the USA,
the CERN Scientific Information Service in Switzerland, Informationland in
the Netherlands/UK, the Netherlands Association for Library, Information,
and Knowledge Professionals (NVB), Heriot-Watt University in the UK, and
University of Leeds in the UK.
Contact
Ticer B.V.
Ms Anja Huijben and Ms Esther Bruls
P.O. Box 4191
5004 JD Tilburg
The Netherlands
T. +31 - 13 - 466 8310
F. +31 - 13 - 466 8383
E. ticer@uvt.nl
URL http://www.ticer.nl/
