MmIT will be co-hosting six papers at CILIP’s Umbrella 2011. Details of the papers are below. Three representatives from MMIT Group will be at the conference: Andrew Cox, Jon Fletcher and Catherine Dhanjal, managing editor, MmIT journal. Jon Fletcher has also had a poster accepted for the conference, based on his article on mobile webpages vs apps which appears in the May issue of the journal.
Tuesday 12th
July, Day 1: Libraries
on the Move (‘Digital inclusion and social change’ track, Session B, 14.15 – 15.30; BMLG/MmIT joint session)
IT in the country: library services to rural areas
Rural Networking: How good IT underpins partnership working and thus effective rural engagement.
Darren Smart, Essex County Council and John Davis,
Kirklees Libraries
Where does the library fit in a mobile application: This presentation
is a case study of a project at Liverpool John Moores University, where the
library was asked to lead on the development and implementation of its
institutional mobile application.
Mandy Phillips, Head of Business and Information
Systems, Liverpool John Moores University Library
Tuesday 12th
July, Day 1: Store, Preserve and Retrieve – Leave it to the Librarians! (‘Technologies and access’ track, Session C, 16.00 – 17.15; CIG/UCR/MmIT joint session)
Open access and institutional repositories: the University of Glasgow experience:
This session examines the role of librarians in dealing with information and
metadata in Open repositories
Susan Ashworth, Assistant Director, Research and
Learning Support Services, University of Glasgow
Collaborative
storage for Newcastle University: Newcastle University is
currently developing its offsite store which is situated five miles from the
main campus. Although the store is not scheduled to be completed until
June/July 2011, this presentation provides an update on progress, describe the planning process necessary for the Store, as well as highlight longer term
plans for 2012 to convert existing shelving space in the Main Library into
extra study space for library users.
David Errington, University of Newcastle
Research repositories: the role of library staff in their management: This presentation will look at the growth in open access research repositories in the UK, the skills and requirements for staff who manager these and the role of support services such as the Repositories Support Project.
Jacqueline Wickham, Nottingham University
Wednesday 13th
July, Day 2: What
we know about internet information seeking (‘Technologies and access’ track, Session D, 09.30 – 10.45; MmIT/ELG joint session)
Internet use by general public: an overview of how public search and
evaluation information on the internet based on a series of major AHRC
projects.
Professor Nigel Ford, The Information School,
University of Sheffield
The
Google Generation: understanding information – seeking behaviours in the digital environment: Ian will outline the exciting developments
CIBER is engaged in, building on the “Google Generation” and “Virtual
Revolution” studies, in understanding how information seeking practices have
radically changed over the last two decades and what are the implications of
this.
Ian Rowlands, Professor of Information Science, Dept of
Information Studies, UCL
Wednesday 13th
July, Day 2: IT for the LIS professional (‘Workshops – tools and techniques’ track, Session E, 11.15 – 12.30; MmIT/LIRG joint session)
What knowledge and skills does a digital librarian need? Alan Poulter presents the work at Strathclyde
on integrating IT skills into the LIS curriculum and David Stuart makes the
case for librarians learning programming.
David
Stuart, Web Analyst and Alan Poulter - Course Director, MSc/PgDip Information
Management, Dept of Computer and Information Sciences, University of
Strathclyde
Wednesday 13th
July, Day 2: Mashed libraries (‘Workshops
– tools and techniques’ track, Session F,
14.15 – 15.30; MmIT/LIRG joint session)
Mashed Libraries – bringing together interested people and doing interesting stuff with libraries and technology: Have you heard about
Mashed Libraries? Want to find out more about what it is, what we do and how
you can get involved? Don’t be put off by the technology word, if you have
ideas about doing things better in your library come and be creative.
Mandy Phillips, Head of Business and Information
Systems, Liverpool John Moores University Library
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