International Summer School on the Digital Library

[Ann Okerson <ann.okerson@yale.edu>]

Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 17:37:28 -0400
From: Arnold Hirshon <ahirshon@nelinet.net>
Subject: International Summer School on the Digital Library

Seventh International Summer School on the Digital Library �

In the summer and fall of 2002, the International Summer School on the
Digital Library will be held for the seventh year in a row in the
Netherlands, the UK, and Italy. ��A detailed programme is available via
Ticer's website: http://www.ticer.nl/summer02 �

Fuller descriptions of the three courses also appears below. �The three
courses are as follows:

Course 1: The Management of Change. �(Tilburg, 28 July - 1 August and
Leeds, 3 - 7 November) �

Course 2: Digital Libraries and the Changing World of Education. (Tilburg,
4 - 9 August)

Course 3: Electronic Publishing: Libraries as Buyers, Facilitators, or
Producers. (Florence, 29 September - 4 October) �[This conference will
occur immediately before the European meeting of the International
Coalition of Library Consortia meeting in Thessaloniki Greece]

Every year, the Summer School is updated to respond to the most recent
developments. Almost 350 librarians from 36 different countries have
attended the very successful Summer School so far.

Course 1: The Management of Change. �(Tilburg, 28 July - 1 August and
Leeds, 3 - 7 November). �The course aims to identify new opportunities for
libraries, to support librarians in developing a vision, and to provide
librarians with tools to initiate a change in their own organisation.
Course director is Jan Wilkinson, University Librarian and Keeper of the
Brotherton Collection at Leeds University Library. The programme is
designed for library managers/directors, deputy librarians/directors, and
other senior managers involved in strategic change in academic and
research libraries. �The following subjects will be dealt with: the
changing outside world, library vision, new ways of supporting research
and learning, strategic planning, models and frameworks for change
management, managing the process of change, organisational change,
managing resistance, communication, human resource aspects of change,
human resource management, and improvement programmes. �

Course 2: Digital Libraries and the Changing World of Education. (Tilburg,
4 - 9 August). �A completely new course on the role of (digital) libraries
in education. Course directors are Hans Roes, Deputy Librarian at Tilburg
University library in the Netherlands, and Graham Bulpitt, Director
Learning Centre and Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. The course is
designed for librarians, reference librarians, library managers,
instruction librarians, designers of learning environments, and teaching
staff. The course addresses the possible roles of and opportunities for
libraries in education and focuses on practical experiences and case
studies of libraries. Attention will be paid to the digital library as a
natural complement of digital learning environments, information literacy
as a critical skill for lifelong learning, the relation between physical
and virtual learning environments, and opportunities for library staff in
co-designing digital learning environments. �

Course 3: Electronic Publishing: Libraries as Buyers, Facilitators, or
Producers. (Florence, 29 September - 4 October) �[Note: This conference
will occur immediately before the European meeting of the International
Coalition of Library Consortia meeting in Thessaloniki Greece]. �Hans
Geleijnse, Director of Information Service and Systems at the European
University Institute in Florence (previously librarian at Tilburg
University), is the director of this course which aims to support
university and research libraries in the current transitional phase and to
identify new roles and opportunities for them. The course is designed for
library managers/directors, IT or systems librarians, licensing officers,
and digital library project managers from academic and research libraries.
The course is highly relevant for publishers. The following themes will be
dealt with: changes in the information chain, new roles for publishers,
the library as an information gateway and publisher, the economics of
journal publishing, copyright, licensing and library consortia, the art of
negotiation, electronic pre-prints and document servers, preservation and
digital archiving, and reference linking. �

Faculty. �Many international experts will present lectures, case studies,
and demonstrations. When the course programmes are completed a full list
of our lecturers will be available: Giuseppe Bertola (European University
Institute, IT); Lars Bj�rnshauge (University of Lund Libraries, SW);
Graham Bulpitt (Sheffield Hallam University, UK); Michael Cant (Larch
Consulting Ltd, UK); Jonathan Clark (Elsevier Science, NL); John Dockerill
(City University Hong Kong); Elizabeth Dupuis (University of Texas at
Austin, USA); Hans Geleijnse (European University Institute, IT);
Emanuella Giavarra (Chambers of Mark Watson-Gandy, UK); Tommaso Giordano
(European University Institute, IT); Arnold Hirshon (NELINET, USA); Lucy
Jeynes (Larch Consulting Ltd, UK); Derek Law (University of Strathclyde,
UK); Pat Davitt Maughan (University of California, Berkeley, USA); Howard
Nicholson (University of Bath, UK); Teun Nijssen (Tilburg University, NL);
Eugenie Prime (Hewlett Packard Company, USA); Hans Roes (Tilburg
University, NL); Hans Roosendaal (University van Twente, NL); Linda
Stoddart (International Labour Office, CH); Herbert Van de Sompel (Los
Alamos National Laboratory, USA); Jan Wilkinson (University of Leeds, UK);
� Group discussions and workshops will enable participants to apply the
new information to their own situation.

The Summer School will be organised by Ticer B.V. (Tilburg Innovation
Centre for Electronic Resources) in co-operation with Tilburg University,
the University of Leeds, and the European University Institute.

More information:
Ticer B.V.; Ms. Jola Prinsen and Ms. Leonne Portz, P.O. Box 4191, 5004 JD
Tilburg, The Netherlands
Phone: +31-13-4668310
Fax: +31-13-4668383
E-mail: ticer@kub.nl
http://www.ticer.nl