Back to the Future and Into the Cloud JIBS User Group Workshop and AGM Programme, Friday 24th February 2012, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), London.

1. Back to the future and into the cloud
JIBS User Group Workshop and AGM, Friday 24th February 2012
Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre at SOAS (School of Oriental and African
Studies), London
Programme
10.00-10.30 Arrival, registration and coffee
10.30 Welcome form JIBS Chair Fiona Bowtell, hand over to Elizabeth
McHugh, Chair for the event.
10.40 Sue Cumberpatch (University of York and former JIBS Chair)
JIBS – 20 years and counting!
11.00 KEYNOTE: Tony Hirst (Open University) The frictionless library –
following Ranganathan: towards “five principles for networked
libraries”
11.30 Coffee break
11.45 Mary Auckland (Librarian and Consultant) You need wings to fly in
the clouds – future skills for librarians
12.15 Antony Brewerton (University of Warwick) There’s a lot more to the
library than the actual building itself
12.45-13.15 LUNCH
13.15-13.45 JIBS AGM including the JIBS student prize dissertation
announcement
13.45 Robert Bley (Ex Libris) Cloud computing: what it means for libraries,
library staff, training and skills
14.15 Ben Showers (JISC) Knowledge Base+: a cloud based community
knowledge base
15.00 Ian Corns (Talis Aspire) Re-imagining the delivery of course
resources with Talis Aspire
15.55 Summing up and plenary discussion (Tea available)
15.55-16.00 Thank you and CLOSE