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By Paul Biba

image001.jpgFrom the Research Information Network’s monthly newsletter. If any of our British readers attend these I would be happy to publish a precis.

Crystal ball gazing: services and skills for tomorrow’s libraries
21 September 2009, Open University, Milton Keynes

This annual Open University library seminar includes Liz Chapman, Deputy Director University College Libraries, Lorraine Estelle, CEO of JISC Collections and Sue Hill of Sue Hill Recruitment Services as its key speakers. Themes explored will be the challenges of the digital environment, the impact of technological developments and changing user behaviour and expectations, the skills and ranges of expertise and knowledge essential for library staff of the future and national initiatives relating to current and future provision of services for the UK education and library communities. The closing date for registration 15 September, register by emailing library.secretariat@cranfield.ac.uk
Doom or bloom? Reinventing the library in the digital age
29 October, London

Run by EUROLIS, this event will look at the way digital libraries, e-books and emerging technologies are transforming the way culture, knowledge and information are created and disseminated. They have a fundamental impact on the self-conception and perception of libraries as spaces of cultural heritage, safe keepers of knowledge as well as stakeholders of knowledge management and information brokerage. How do libraries take action in order to bloom and ensure their future? The event is aimed at managers of public, school and academic libraries and library and information professionals. http://eurolis.wordpress.com/

The future of research repositories in the arts
1 October 2009, London

Following the successful completion of the KULTUR project earlier this year, the project partners are holding a day seminar to showcase KULTUR in action and to examine how it could be implemented within your own institution and, potentially, across the sector to create a virtual National Arts Research Repository. Booking is essential and places are limited. Email Marie-Therese Gramstadt mtg@vads.ac.uk

Creating, managing and delivering digital documentation of performance work
23-25 September 2009, Bristol

JISC Digital Media and the University of Bristol Drama Department are hosting a series of three one-day events on the topics of creating, managing and delivering digital documentation of performance work. Each day will begin with seminar-style presentations of examples, innovative approaches and discussion; this will be followed by hands-on workshops in the afternoon, which see the featured methods applied to a real-world performance example. The lifecycle of this digital documentation will be tracked over the three days: through digitisation, accession, structuring, delivery, annotation, tagging and curation by users. The outcome of the workshop series will be a detailed performance case study complete with rich metadata. These seminars events are free to attend, if you would like to participate in these events please email training@jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk

 
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