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2008 Speakers
RBA Information Services
Karen Blakeman has worked in the information profession for over twenty years and has been a freelance consultant since 1989. Her company (RBA Information Services) provides training and consultancy on the use of the Internet and Web 2.0, and on accessing and managing information resources. Karen maintains a blog (http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/( and publishes an electronic newsletter called Tales from the Terminal Room. She is an Honorary Fellow of CILIP: The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, an active member of the UK e-Information Group (UKeiG), a member of the City Information Group and a member of the Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP)
Antony Brewerton University of Warwick
Brand new: an inspirational approach to marketing your library service Antony is Head of Academic Support for The Library at The University of Warwick. His first library marketing role was at the University of Reading He has written and lectured on the image of librarians/the marketing of library services and was the Library Association’s National Academic Co-ordinator for the last National Libraries Week. He is the Editor of SCONUL Focus and a member of the SCONUL Advisory Committee on Communications and Marketing. At Oxford Brookes University Library, in his most recent previous post, he was Subject Team Leader and (most importantly) the Convenor of the Library Marketing Group, the Group that won the CILIP: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals/Emerald Public Relations and Publicity Award for a "promotional campaign with a budget under £500" for its imaginative Inspiration Campaign. In 2006 he was invited to contribute a chapter to the IFLA guide to library marketing, Marketing library and information services: international perspectives, under the heading ‘Excellence in marketing’ and he has recently edited SCONUL’s compendium of good practice, Marketing library services. Antony is currently involved in a major library remodelling project, a review of service offering and marketing these enhancements to stakeholders at Warwick.
Genevieve Clavel Swiss National Library
Genevieve Clavel-Merrin is responsible for National and International Cooperation at the Swiss National Library, Bern. She is currently working on projects covering digitization and its coordination in Swiss libraries, plus public-private partnerships. She has previously worked on the Swiss catalogue of Digitized Posters (searchable through the European Library) and is active in the field of multilingual access (MACS - Multilingual Access to Subjects). She has wide experience in European-funded projects (CANAL/LS, NEDLIB, TEL, TEL-ME-MOR, EDLproject), and is the Swiss contact for the European Library. She is active in IFLA (Secretary of the Standing Committee of the National Libraries Section until 2007), and in the WSIS (preparatory sessions and follow-up). Before joining the National Library in 1998, she was a consultant with Clavel SA (1994-1998) managing national and international projects for the NL in the field of library networking, database merging and deduplication, cross-language access and authority control. She worked from 1987 - 1994 for REBUS (Network of SIBIL users), Lausanne, and prior to that at the Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire, Lausanne . She is a graduate of Aberystwyth University, Wales (1980, French and Library Science; 1986, Masters in Library Science) and a Chartered member of CILIP (the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, UK).
Liz Hart has been a music librarian for over 30 years, in the London Boroughs of Barnet and Enfield. She has been closely involved with all aspects of music inter-library lending, and has served on the management group for the Greater London Audio Specialisation Scheme (GLASS) and the LASER working group on music score interlending. She has run music librarianship courses for IAML(UK & Irl) and is currently its President.
Robert Krall University of Pennsylvania http://www.library.upenn.edu/docs/publications/bobkrall4.pdf
"The University of Pennsylvania Libraries has announced the appointment of Robert Krall to the position of Director of Departmental Libraries, Resource Sharing and Delivery Services. His responsibilities include oversight of the departmental units of the Penn Libraries, including the Science Libraries, Health Sciences Libraries, Fine Arts Library, Museum Library, and the High Density Storage Facility. Mr. Krall is also responsible for the Penn Libraries’ resource sharing and campus-wide delivery services. Mr. Krall has guided Penn’s participation in a wide network of resource sharing efforts, including BorrowDirect, E-ZBorrow, and RAPID. His professional activities in this arena are numerous and global in scope. Mr. Krall serves as Project Manager for the multi-institutional BorrowDirect partnership, and is Penn’s representative to regional consortia and the OCLC/Research Libraries Group Shared Resources Program (SHARES). A frequent speaker on resource sharing and access services, Mr. Krall is currently involved in projects to support the library and information needs of Penn programs in Africa, including a project funded by the Elsevier Foundation to support Penn’s health care and medical education efforts in Botswana. He also serves on the IFLA Document Delivery Standing Committee. "In this new position, Bob continues a career-long commitment to services that bring the Libraries to their users," said Vice Provost & Director of Libraries Carton Rogers. "As the Penn community expands ever beyond the confines of West Philadelphia, Bob will help to lead us in partnerships and collaborations that have an international focus, fulfilling the University’s mission to engage globally." Mr. Krall’s previous positions at Penn include Assistant Director for Access Services and Head of Interlibrary Loan. He received his BA in history from Penn (C ’71) and his Master of Library and Information Science degree from Drexel University.
Ian Landles - After Dinner Speaker
University of Strathclyde Keynote speaker
Graham Muncy Graham Muncy started his career in libraries at Bromley in 1967, after gaining professional qualifications; he joined Surrey in 1971, firstly as a Mobile Librarian, then deputy at Oxted. Appointed to run the Music & Drama Service in 1977 & transformed it into the Surrey Performing Arts Library, which first opened in 1981. He retired as Senior Librarian in March 2008 to spend more time on professional matters (Chair of IAML Conference Committee) & research on musical topics.
Information Policy Consultant, National Archives Copyright Tim Padfield has been working at the Public Record Office, now The National Archives, for approaching 30 years and is currently an Information Policy Consultant in the Information Policy and Services Directorate. He advises The National Archives, including the Office of Public Sector Information and Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, and archivists and others across the UK on copyright and public sector information issues, with special reference to unpublished works and to Crown copyright. He is chairman of the Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance, and a member of the executive committee of the Museums Copyright Group, of the Intellectual Property Advisory Committee of the Collections Trust (formerly the MDA) and of the Copyright Committee of the Academic and Professional Division of the Publishers Association. Although by background a historian, he has been awarded the degree of Master of Laws (LLM) with merit by the University of London, specialising in intellectual property, and is the author of Copyright for Archivists and Records Managers (3rd edn, Facet, 2007).
David Potts David Potts is The Project Manager for Libraries at The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA). He focuses primarily on the delivery of the MLA Action Plan for Libraries. He previously worked on the development of the People's Network, a project which connected all of the UK's public libraries to the internet, and has recently been involved with MLA’s Reference Online initiative. Prior to that, he worked on the Big Lottery Fund’s Community Libraries Programme. David has also worked for Wolverhampton and Walsall public library services, and was the Regional Libraries Telematics Officer for the West Midlands.
University of Plymouth Graham Titley has been working at the University of Plymouth as the Document Delivery and Copyright Librarian for four years. Previous posts were held in the NHS as Library Service Manager in Newport, Gwent (1984-1996) and in Rochdale (1996-2004). In both hospitals/trusts Graham was the first professional librarian appointed to support medical staff and trainees and was responsible for establishing a quality professional service delivering information when and where needed. Graham freely admits that his ‘anorak’ is copyright and he represented the English acute trusts on the NHS Library Advisor’s Copyright Advisory Panel for two years from 2002-2004. At Plymouth, Graham has been responsible for the introduction of an electronic signature for copyright and moving the default delivery of all copy requests (approximately 10,000 annually) to the British Library’s Secure Electronic Delivery service, allowing requesting and delivery at point of need. Graham is currently Vice-Chair of FIL.
Stephanie Taylor
Sarah Washford Southampton City Libraries Sarah Washford has worked in public libraries for 8 years and currently supervises the Requests service of Southampton City Libraries. She is particularly interested in technology and staff training and development. More information about Sarah can be found on her blog, Info Junkie
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