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The SCONUL Summer Conference took place in Dublin on 20 and 21 June, with the theme of "Adapt and Thrive: Regional and national innovation in response to change in higher education".

Highlights of the conference included Professor Malcolm Gillies discussing outsourcing in higher education; Roly Keating on links between The British Library and universities and Li Yuan on whether MOOCs will transform higher education in the UK.

Delegates had the opportunity of attending a series of workshops highlighting innovation in member libriares, plus a series of "fringe" meetings from SCONUL Groups and partner organisations. 

Conference agenda and presentions (where available)

Plenary sessions:

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

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

Panel discussion with 

• Philip Cohen, Head of Library Services, Dublin Institute of Technology
• Helen Durndell, University Librarian, University of Glasgow
• Brian Mooney, Educational Columnist, The Irish Times
• Professor Leni Oglesby, Council Member, HEFCW
• Professor Paul O’Prey, Vice-Chancellor, University of Roehampton and Chair of UUK Longer Term Strategy Group

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

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

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

• 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.

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

SCONUL AGM

Workshops: Adapting to Change: lessons from the library floor

• Integrating learning skills support at Solent: Achievements and challenges with Steve Rose, Head of Library & Learning Services and Elizabeth Selby, Dean, Learning & Information Service, Southampton Solent University. 
• Pushing the boundaries of student-driven innovation: Enthusiasm is contagious, with Nick Campbell, Project Manager, Eureka and Research, University of Manchester
• Service Convergence –  Values, Culture and Change, with Oliver Pritchard, Assistant Director, Student and Learning Support and Kirsten Black, Director, Student and Learning Support, University of Sunderland
• Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels: LMS outsourcing & organisational impact, with John Dowd, Assistant Director, Planning and Business Development, Learning and Information Services, University of Wolverhampton. 
• Students co-designing personalised library services, with Keren Mills, Digital Services Projects Manager and Anne Gambles, Digital Services Development Officer, Open University Library
• Promises, Pallets and Pragmatism, with Caroline Rock, University Librarian, Coventry University

The SCONUL Fringe:

• Research data management in practice: Roles and skills for libraries, with Dr Andrew Cox, Lecturer, Director of Learning and Teaching, University of Sheffield and Dr Stephen Pinfield, Senior Lecturer, Information School, University of Sheffield
• The key issues affecting the enhancement of digital scholarship skills of information professionals, with Dr Charlie Inskip, SCONUL/RIDLS Project Officer, Digital Scholarship and Information Literacy
• Bishop Grosseteste University: Moving library workflows to the Cloud! with Emma Sansby, Head of Library Services, Bishop Grosseteste University and Robin Murray, Vice President, Global Product Management, OCLC
• Come and see what’s free from Ex Libris, with Alan Oliver, Business Development Director Europe, Ex Libris and Robert Bley, Managing Director, Ex Libris
• A national strategy for monographs, with Ben Showers, Programme Manager, Digital Infrastructure, Jisc and Rachel Bruce, Innovation Director, Digital Infrastructure, Jisc
• British Library document supply: A changing service for a changing landscape, with Andy Appleyard, Head of Document Supply and Customer Services, The British Library and Richard Ebdon, Business Development Manager, The British Library
• Jisc Collection's Consortia: E-books project, with Lorraine Estelle, Chief Executive Officer, Jisc Collections
• LSPs and APIs: Integration and the next generation of library management systems, with Colin Carter, Sales Account Manager for the UK and Northern Europe, Innovative Interfaces Inc.
• SCONUL Shared and Collaborative Services Strategy Group consultation meeting, with Mark Toole, Chair, Shared and Collaborative Services Group and Director of Information Services, University of Stirling.