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  Talent and Innovation  -  Reshaping for Success


   Thursday 19 June  
   
 
 15:30 – 17:30


Registration

Foyer, School of Nursing
Light refreshments served in foyer


 
   
   15:00

Optional Tours of John and Aileen O'Reilly Library

     
   15:00 – 16:30 Sponsors’ Exhibition
     
   16:30 Optional Tours of John and Aileen O'Reilly Library
     
 

 18:30

Welcome by Paul Sheehan
Director of Library Services,  Dublin City University

Change and innovation: the university context
Professor Maria Slowey, Vice-President for Learning Innovation and Registrar, Dublin City University;
Professor Eugene Kennedy,Vice-President for Research, Dublin City University
     
   19:30 Barbeque/Entertainment
NuBar, Dublin City University
     
   Friday 20 June  
 
 08:00

Breakfast
Main restaurant
     
   09:00 Taking stock: the changing world of academic libraries
Sean Phillips, Former Librarian, University College, Dublin

Chair: Paul Sheehan, Director of Library Services, Dublin City University
     
   09:45 Growing our own: developing the next generation
of leaders at Cambridge University Library (ppt)

Anne Murray, Deputy Librarian, Cambridge University
Chair: Michelle Latimer, Senior Library Assistant, University College, Dublin
     
   10:30 Coffee and exhibition
     
   11:00 Leaders’ views: perspectives on the conference
theme
John Fitzgerald, Librarian, University College, Cork
Gobnait O'Riordan, Director, University of Limerick Library
Paul Sheehan, Director of Library Services, Dublin City University
Chair: Robin Adams, Librarian, Trinity College, Dublin
     
   12:00 Sponsor presentation
Carmel O'Grady, 3M
Matthew Smith, Blackwell
     
   12:30

Question Time: topical questions around the theme
to be explored in three parallel workshops:

  1. What are libraries not currently doing that users would value? What are libraries doing that users don't necessarily value any more?
    Facilitator: David Meehan, Business, Law and Government Librarian, Dublin City University

  2. Do traditional skills/competencies of library staff serve current needs? What talents do we need to develop to face the future?
    Facilitator: Monica Crump, Head of Bibliographic Services, NUI Galway

  3. Do our libraries need to change in order to foster talent and innovation? If so, what changes would you like to see?
    Facilitator: Mary Crickard, Queen's University, Belfast, Medical Library

     
   13:00 Lunch
Main restaurant
     
   14:30 Tour of National Botanic Gardens and Library

Trip to Howth and Boat Trip around Dublin Bay
     
   19:30 Drinks reception
Clontarf Castle
     
   20:00 Gala dinner
Clontarf Castle
     
   Saturday 21 June  
 
 08:00

Breakfast
Main restaurant
     
   09:15

To "e" or not to "e": is there a future for e-books?
Mary Kiely, Acquisitions Librarian, Dublin City University
Chair: Elaine Bean, Information Services, NUI Maynooth

     
   09:35

Web X.0: a load of baloney?
Cathal McCauley, Head of Reader Services, University College, Dublin
Chair: Dr. Jack McGinley, Campus Bookstacks, Trinity College, Dublin

     
   10:00 Creative workshops:-
  1. Stop arguing and start thinking! The Six Hats technique for creative thinking.
    Geraldine McFeeley, Head of Collection Management Services, Dublin City University
     
  2. The Achievement Edge: be the best you can be
    Lynda Byron, Leadership Specialist, Leadership Journeys Ltd

     
  3. A whack on the side of the head: developing individual and organisational creativity
    Helen Fallon, Acting Librarian, NUI Maynooth
     
   10:45 Coffee and exhibition
     
   11:00 ANLTC Staff Development Awards update

Staff development in a time of change and opportunity
Paul Murphy, Chair, ANLTC 2007-2008

Award winners
Marie Cullen, NUI Maynooth (2007)
Petra Schurenhofer, University College, Dublin (2004)
Siobhan Dunne, Dublin City University (ANLTC/Swets Research Award, 2007)

     
   11:30 Closing address
Creating the future
Anne Miller, Inventor, Author and Creativity Expert
Chair: Ellen Breen, Sub-Librarian, Information and Public Services, Dublin City University
     
   12:15 Conference summary and handover / AGM
     
   13:00 Close of conference

Brown bag lunch

Foyer, School of Nursing
     

 

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