New Trends and Best Practice for Libraries in Central Banks and Regulatory Agencies
3-day intensive residential programme, 31 August - 3 September 2004
Venue: Christ's College, Cambridge
Course Director:
Dr Paul Ayris, Director of Library Services, University College London
Details of how to register
are here
NEW TRENDS AND BEST PRACTICE FOR LIBRARIES
IN CENTRAL BANKS AND REGULATORY AGENCIES
The talks and practical exercises will be given and co-ordinated by leading library and information practitioners from both higher education and special libraries.
There will be ample opportunity to work in small teams, to compare and contrast experiences with your colleagues, and to make presentations yourself on the work of your library and information unit.
Yours sincerely,
Dr Paul Ayris
Director of Library Services, University College London
Marketing your library
Anne Poulson
Head of Library Services
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
The speaker's presentation will inform delegates how library
and information units can and should promote themselves to their colleagues
in central banks. Marketing and public relations are all-important to
the perception of the library as a dynamic and outgoing unit, contributing
to the success of the organisation. The speaker will illustrate ways
in which libraries can be promoted, but also suggest some common pitfalls,
which should be avoided. The session will conclude with breakout groups,
where delegates will be asked to answer questions which the speaker
has set, and upon which they will report back to the conference in a
plenary session.
Disaster management
Speaker to be confirmed
Imagine that your library/information service is flooded or devastated
by fire. What do you do to rescue the book and periodical stock? Do
you have a disaster management policy, which lays down what steps should
be followed in these circumstances? How is such a policy put together
in the first place? Who will handle questions from the press and TV
if such a disaster occurs in your high-profile buildings? How much will
it cost to recover from such a disaster? The speaker will identify how
disaster management policies should be constructed, how the training
needs of staff can be met, and generally how to cope if such a fire
or flood devastates your library.
Case Studies I *
Best practice in knowledge
management
Speaker to be confirmed
Knowledge management is becoming a pervasive approach
to managing the knowledge assets of any organisation. Information is
power and the ability to harness the knowledge base in any organisation
is bound to give that body a competitive advantage in terms of its ability
to meet operational imperatives and to plan for the future. In this
context, libraries and information services have an important role to
play in creating a culture for knowledge and learning. The speaker will
look at practical examples of knowledge management. The session will
conclude with a practical exercise which will allow delegates to use
the information they have gained in the session and apply it to their
own libraries. The results of these exercises will be reported back
in a plenary session.
New models for library
collaboration
Dr
Paul Ayris
Director
of Library Services, University College London
As course director, Paul has heard delegates at successive conferences
talk about a wish for closer collaboration between central bank libraries.
Building on this theme, the speaker will look at four models for library
collaboration - two from the higher education sector in the UK, one
from European Research Libraries and one for special libraries in London.
The consortia are CURL (Consortium of University Research Libraries)
at http://www.curl.ac.uk,
the M25 Consortium of Higher Education Libraries at http://www.m25lib.ac.uk,
LIBER (Ligue Internationale des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche)
at http://www.kb.dk/guests/intl/liber/,
and the Consortium of Health Independent Information Libraries in London
at http://chill-london.org.uk/members/.
Looking at these four models, the speaker will suggest a possible way
forward for future collaboration among central bank libraries.
Chris Pressler
School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, University College London
Collection management is a vital issue for libraries and the speaker will unfold the strategic importance of this topic for special libraries such as those in central banks. Models for collection management policies in terms of acquisition, retention and relegation will be considered and good practice identified. The management of electronic collections will form a core part of this presentation - be they links to existing websites and portals, or the acquisition of e-journals and ebooks for your own information service. Is collaborative collection management possible between libraries like central bank libraries which exist on different continents? The session will end with practical exercises in collection management, the results of which will be reported back in plenary sessions.
Running a special library - lessons for central banks
Caroline Moss-Gibbons
Library and Information Services, Royal College of Physicians
In a technical sense, central bank libraries count as special libraries. As such, they share many of the characteristics of special libraries in a number of sectors. This presentation offers experiences from one such library in the United Kingdom. Topics to be covered will include: relationship with central institutional managers, the possibilities for innovation, electronic developments, collection management, quality assurance and professional development. With increasing pressure on special libraries to offer improved services within existing or smaller budgets, the speaker will give examples of ways in which special libraries can serve their constituencies and continue to make themselves heard and relevant.
Case Studies II *
Visit to Cambridge libraries
The libraries will be: Cambridge University Library and Trinity College Library
Best practice in library
web design
Simon Brown
Royal Free Medical Library, UCL
Library Services
Institutions are increasingly judged
by their web presence. Over 60% of all US undergraduates look at Google
before they think about visiting a library. The web is now pervasive and
library users expect a very high standard of presentation, content and
navigation. The speaker is a member of UCL Library Services' Websites
Working Group and will offer practical examples of good and bad design.
UCL Library Services is presently undertaking a complete re-design of
its web presence and the results of this activity will be shared with
attenders, to illustrate best practice in web design.
Evaluating web resources and providing
information skills training
Betsy Anagnostelis
Manager, Business Continuity
Division, Bank of England (invited)
The speaker is site librarian at the Royal Free Medical
Library in UCL Library Services and is a leading authority on the use
of web technologies to deliver information resources to academics in medical
sciences and to professionals in the UK National Health Service. This
presentation will identify methodologies for evaluating web resources
of interest to central banks and will suggest to attendees how they might
deliver information skills training to members of their libraries in the
busy professional environment of a central bank.
Practical exercises in web
design/content management
Dr
Paul Ayris
Following two sessions on web design for libraries,
delegates will split into groups for practical exercises in web design
and implementation, reporting back to the conference in a plenary session.
Pulling together the threads
Dr
Paul Ayris
In the final session of the conference, the
course director will summarise the learning outcomes of the three days
and suggest ways in which delegates can take these lessons forward whey
they return to their own libraries.
* Case Studies
Presented by members of the conference, chaired and moderated by Dr Paul
Ayris Throughout the conference, delegates will be invited to give case
studies from their own libraries. These case studies will have been prepared
by the delegates in advance before their arrival in Cambridge. Powerpoint
or an overhead projector will be available for speakers to use in their
presentations, but there will be no internet connection. Each case study
should last no more than 15 minutes, and should illustrate an innovation
or successful development in their own library. If speakers wish to provide
handouts, these should be prepared in advance of their arrival in Cambridge.
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