CONFERENCE
Balliol College, Oxford, 2-3 September, 2013
Programme
Registration and all talks will take place in Lecture Room 23 in Balliol College (Garden Quad).
Throughout the conference there will be material to inspect from our vendors and publishers
Casalini, Erasmus, Maney and University of Wales Press
Monday 2nd September
10:30-11:10
Registration (coffee / tea)
Session 1
11:10-11:15
Welcome and Housekeeping
11:15-13:00
The future of ML Collection Management
Chair: Dr Geoff West (Lead Curator, Hispanic Studies at the British
Library and Chair of ACLAIIR)
11.15-11.35
Collection management at the Bodleian Libraries of the University
of Oxford: an overview
Speaker: Catriona Cannon (Associate Director, Collection Support
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University)
11.40-12.00
Approval plans
Speaker: Joanne Edwards (Subject Consultant, Spanish,
Portuguese and Latin American Studies, Taylor Institution Library,
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University)
12:10-12.30
Use of the COPAC CCM Tools at Leeds
Speaker: Maureen Pinder (Arts and Social Sciences Faculty Team
Librarian, University of Leeds)
12.30-12.50
Demand-driven acquisitions: is this the way forward?
Speaker: Hilla Wait (Philosophy and Theology Librarian, Bodleian
Libraries, Oxford University)
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13:00-14:00
Lunch
Session 2
14:00-15:00
The future of Librarians working with ML
Chair: Teresa Vernon (Lead Curator, French Studies, British Library
and French Studies Library Group Chair)
14:00-14:30
Restructures, robots and research collections
Speaker: Rachel Kirkwood (Research Services Librarian, University
of Manchester Library)
14:30-1500
Presentation on the Library Languages Questionnaire
Speaker: Colin Homiski (Research Librarian for Art History, Film and
Media, Music, Philosophy & Religious Studies, Senate House
Libraries, London)
Speaker: Nick Hearn (French and Russian Subject Specialist, Taylor
Institution Library, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University).
Session 3
15:00-15:45
Guest lecture
Chair: Joanne Edwards (Taylor Institution Library, Bodleian
Libraries, Oxford)
Riding the Buses in Contemporary Brazilian Film
Speaker: Dr Claire Williams (Oxford University
Lecturer in Brazilian Studies)
15:45-16:00
Tea/coffee (those going on Balliol Tour make their way to St. Cross
site)
16:00-16:30
Tour of Balliol Historic Collections (St.Cross site)
Speakers/Tour leaders: Fiona Godber (Acting Librarian, Balliol
College Library/Anne Sander (Archivist and Curator of
Manuscripts, Balliol College Library)
Session 4
16:30-17:30
Session on Social Media: focus on blogging
Chair: (Andrea Meyer Ludowisy, Western Languages Librarian for
Senate House Libraries, London)
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16:30-17:00
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme: blogging for Oxford on Western
European history collections
Speaker: Isabel Holowaty (Bodleian History Librarian)
17.00 -17:30
Many bloggers, one blog: blogging for Europe at the British Library
Speaker: Susan Reed (Lead Curator, Germanic Studies The
British Library)
Session 5
17:30-18:00
Franz Kafka and his manuscripts – a journey to the point of no
return
Chair: Jill Hughes (Acting Librarian-in-Charge, Taylor Institution
Library, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford)
Speaker: Malgorzata Czepiel (Kafka Curator, Bodleian Library)
18:00-19:30
Wine reception in Main Reading Room of Taylorian (Walk to
Taylorian in St Giles with conference organizers). We would like to
thank Casalini for generously sponsoring this event.
20:00-21:00
Dinner at Al-Andalus restaurant
Tuesday 3rd September
8:00-9:00
Breakfast (for those staying in Balliol College)
Session 6
9:00-9:45
Lost voices: Panel discussion Part 1
Chair: Maureen Pinder (Arts and Social Sciences Faculty Team
Librarian, University of Leeds)
9:00-9:15
Lost voices: The role of the Celtic Studies librarian.
Speakers: Janet Foot (Celtic Librarian, Taylor Institution Library,
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford), Clare Bristow (Library Assistant, Legal
Deposit Operations, Bodleian Libraries)
9:15-9:25
Lost voices: The role of the Language Centre Librarian
Speaker: Lucile Deslignères
(Librarian of the Oxford University Language Centre) NOTE: This
talk will be filmed. If you have concerns, please contact organizers.
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9:25-9:35
Lost voices: The role of the Science Librarian
Speaker: Karen Langdon (Document Supply Supervisor, Radcliffe
Science Library, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford)
Session 7
9:45-10.45
Lost voices: Panel discussion Part 2 (Focus on cataloguers)
Chair: Rachel Kirkwood (University of Manchester Library)
9:45-10.00
Lost voices: Working on the edge: the West European cataloguing
team in the British Library
Speaker: Janet Ashton (West European Language Team Manager
British Library)
10:00-10:15
Lost voices: Loud and Clear. Foreign Language Cataloguing at the
London Library
Speaker: Andrea del Cornò (Italian Acquisitions and Retrospective
Conversion Project, London Library)
10.15-1035
Lost voices: RDA and foreign language collections
Speaker: David Lowe (Head of European Collections, University of
Cambridge)
10:45-11:00
Break
Session 8
11:00-11:20
The changing role of the subject specialist
Chair: Joanne Edwards (Subject Consultant – Spanish and
Portuguese and Latin American Studies, Taylor Institution Library,
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford)
Speaker: Kate Williams, (Academic Support Librarian, University of
Warwick)
Session 9
11:25-11:45
Open Access: challenges for modern languages
Chair: Kate Williams (University of Warwick)
Speaker: Dr Johanneke Sytsema (Subject Consultant, Linguistics
Dutch and Friesian, Taylor Institution Library, Bodleian Libraries,
Oxford)
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Session 10
12.00-13.00
Electronic resources and ML
Chair: Isabel Holowaty
12.00-12.20
Europeana and The European Library: an introduction with
examples for MFL
Speaker: Janet Zmroczek (Head of European Studies, British
Library)
12:20-12:40
The anniversary of World War I The Oxford Community Collection
Model and Europeana 1914-1918
Speaker: Kate Lindsay (First World War Digital Collections,
Academic IT, University of Oxford)
12:40-13:00
Electronic Enlightenment – European language input
Speaker: Dr Robert McNamee (Director Electronic Enlightenment
Project) (Oxford)
13:00-14:00
Lunch
Session 11/Tours
14:15-15:00
Presentation on the Medieval and Renaissance West European
Special Collections at the Bodleian Library
Speaker/Tour leader: Eva Oledzka (Western Manuscripts
Reference Librarian, Bodleian Library, Oxford)
Followed by:
15:15-15:45
Tour of Duke Humfrey’s Library/Divinity School
Tour Leader: Eva Oledzka (Western Manuscripts Reference
Librarian)
Followed by:
15.45-16.15
Tour of the Bodleian (Gladstone Link)
Tour leader: Isabel Holowaty (History Librarian, Bodleian Libraries)
OR
Visit to Bodleian Exhibition: Magical Books – From the Middle Ages
to Middle-earth (Exhibition runs from 28 May 2013 – 27 October
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OR
15:00-16:00
Tour of the Taylorian
Tour leader: Jill Hughes (Acting Librarian-in-Charge, Taylor
Institution Library)
OR
15:00-16:00
Tour of Balliol Historic Collections (St Cross Site) (for those who did
not make it on Monday in the Coffee Break or who want to pay a
second visit)
Tour leaders: Fiona Godber (Acting Librarian, Balliol College
Library)/ Anne Sander (Archivist and Curator of Manuscripts,
Balliol College Library)
16:00
End
Conference organized by Nick Hearn (Taylor Institution Library) and Joanne Edwards
(Taylor Institution Library) with much help from committees and chairs of FSLG,
ACLAIIR and GSLG
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