18.30 - 21.00

Welcome drinks reception, Garden Terrace, Raddison Blu Royal Hotel

09.30 

Registration

10.15

Welcome from SCONUL Chair

10.20

Welcome address: Dr Patrick Prendergast, Provost of Trinity College Dublin

10.35

Keynote Speech: Roly Keating, Chief Executive, The British Library

11.20 

Coffee

11.45 

Panel discussion on how national and regional differences in the HE environment are shaping institutional strategy

• Professor Leni Oglesby, Former Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Teesside University and Council Member, HEFCW
• Professor Paul O’Prey, Vice-Chancellor, University of Roehampton and Chair of UUK Longer Term Strategy Group
• Brian Mooney, Educational Columnist, Irish Times
• Helen Durndell, University Librarian, University of Glasgow

13.00  

Lunch

14.00

Workshops: Adapting to Change: lessons from the library floor in innovating for success 

• Integrating learning skills support at Solent: Achievements and challenges, Steve Rose and Elizabeth Selby, Southampton Solent University
• Pushing the boundaries of student-driven innovation: Enthusiasm is contagious, Nick Campbell, University of Manchester
• Innovation at York, Michelle Blake, The University of York
• Service Convergence – Values, Culture and Change, Oliver Pritchard and Kirsten Black, University of Sunderland
• Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels: LMS Outsourcing & Organisational Impact, John Dowd, University of Wolverhampton
• Students co-designing personalised library services, Keren Mills and Anne Gambles, Open University
• Promises, Pallets and Pragmatism, Caroline Rock, Coventry University

15.15

Coffee

15.45

The SCONUL Fringe

16.45  

MOOCs: Game changer or fringe benefit
Dr Li Yuan, JISC CETIS, Senior Researcher and Learning Technology Advisor, Institute for Educational Cybernetics, University of Bolton

17.45

Close

18.25

Meet in hotel foyer for coaches to dinner venue

19.30    

Conference Dinner, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland

09.30        

Welcome

09.45   

SCONUL Update and AGM

11.00    

Coffee

11.30    

Out-sourcing: The way forward for higher education services
Professor Malcolm Gillies, Vice-Chancellor, London Metropolitan University 

12.30    

Lunch

13.30

The SCONUL Fringe

14.30

Working Smarter: Three perspectives on collecting and exploiting library data to inform strategy

• Titia van der Werf, Senior Program Officer, OCLC Research
• Gary Tindell, Information Improvement Manager, University of East London
• Rachel Bruce, Innovation Director, Digital Infrastructure, Jisc

15.15    

Coffee

15.45    

Keynote speech and Q&A: Ned Costello, Chief Executive, Irish Universities Association

16.45    

Closing remarks from the SCONUL Chair

16.50    

Close