On Thursday 24 November 2011 we held our annual conference and AGM at the National Railway Museum in York. We had a great day, it was wonderful to catch up with our members and publishing colleagues and the venue was superb.
Here are the presentations from the day:
Lorraine Estelle, CEO, JISC Collections highlighted some of the achievements of JISC Collections and its members during the 2010 – 2011 year:
View presentation and the JISC Collections 2010 - 2011 Annual Review
Steven Town, Director of Information and University Librarian, University of York spoke about collections, visibility and the value of the library.
Emily Armstrong, Libraries Manager, Hull College Group and Chris Skerrow, eResources Librarian for Hull College Group spoke about the challenges and successes they have had in embedding e-resources:
In the afternoon, we held a number of parallel sessions on projects and our licensing activities. Where presentations were used, they are available below:
OAPEN-UK – exploring open access humanities and social science monograph publishing with Caren Milloy, Head of Projects, JISC Collections & Graham Stone, Information Resources Manager, University of Huddersfield
Managing e-resources – an update on current activity within JISC Collections with Liam Earney, KB+ Project Director, JISC Collections & Magaly Bascones, Project Manager, JISC Collections & Jo Lambert, Project Manager, Mimas
JISC eCollections – the new community owned content service comprising JISC MediaHub, JISC Journal Archives and JISC Historic Books. The presentation included a live demonstration by Scott Gibbens, JISC Collections Service Representative, JISC Collections
E-books for FE - a look at the challenges and business models of providing e-textbooks in FE with David Scott, Head of Learner Services, Dundee College & Anna Vernon, Licensing Manager, JISC Collections
We would like to thank everyone that came along for the day and for your positive comments on the feedback forms. We hope you found it a productive and enjoyable event and we look forward to seeing you again next year.
