CONFERENCE
Balliol College, Oxford, 2-3 September, 2013
Draft Programme
Monday 2nd September
10:30-11:25
Registration (coffee / tea)
Session 1
11:25-11:30
Welcome and Housekeeping
11:30-13:00
The future of ML Collection Management
Collection management at the Bodleian Libraries of the
University of Oxford: an overview
Speaker: Catriona Cannon (Associate Director, Collection
Support) (Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University)
Approval plans
Speaker: Joanne Edwards (Subject Consultant, Spanish,
Portuguese and Latin American Studies, Taylor Institution
Library)
Use of the COPAC CCM Tools at Leeds
Speaker: Maureen Pinder (Arts and Social Sciences Faculty
Team Librarian, University of Leeds)
13:00-14:00
Lunch
Session 2
The future of Librarians working with ML
14:00-15:00
Presentation on the Library Languages Questionnaire
Speakers: Colin Homiski (Research Librarian for Art History,
Film and Media, Music, Philosophy & Religious Studies, Senate
House Library) (tbc), Nick Hearn (French & Russian Subject
Specialist, Taylor Institution Library, Oxford).
Restructures, robots and research collections
Speaker: Rachel Kirkwood (Research Services Librarian,
University of Manchester Library)
15:00-15:45
Guest lecture
Brazilian film
Speaker: Dr Claire Williams (Oxford)
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: Fiona Godber/Anne Sander
Session 3
16:30-18:00
Session on Social Media: focus on blogging
16:30-17:00
The Oxford Library blogger
Speaker: Isabel Holowaty (Bodleian History Librarian)
17.00 -17:30
The blogging librarian
Speaker: Susan Reed (The British Library)
17:30-18:00
Kafka manuscripts
Speaker: Malgorzata Czepiel
18:00-19:30
Wine reception in Taylorian
(please note the Library will be closed at this time so there will
be more information in due course about access)
20:00-21:00
Dinner at Al-Andalus restaurant
Tuesday 3rd September
8:00-9:00
Breakfast (for those staying in Balliol College)
Session 4
9:00-11.15
The future of Modern Languages Librarianship
9:00-9.15
Lost voices: The role of the Celtic Studies librarian
Speakers: Janet Foot (Celtic Librarian, Taylor Institution
Library), Clare Bristow (Library Assistant, Legal Deposit
Operations, Bodleian Libraries)
9.15-9.35
Lost voices: The role of the Language Centre Librarian
Speaker: Lucile Deslignères (Librarian of the Oxford University
Language Centre)
9.35-9.55
Lost voices: The role of the Science Librarian
Speaker: Karen Langdon (Document Supply Supervisor,
Radcliffe Science Library)
9.55-10.15
The changing role of the subject specialist
Speaker: Kate Williams, (Academic Support Librarian,
University of Warwick)
10:15-10:30
Coffee / tea
10:30-10:55
Lost voices: The role of the Cataloguer/A new WESLINE
subgroup for Cataloguers of western-languages materials?
Speakers: Andrea del Cornò and Claudia Ricci, (London Library)
10:50-11.15
Open Access: challenges for modern languages
Speaker: Dr Johanneke Sytsema (Bodleian Libraries, Oxford)
Session 5
11:15-12:00
French Studies Library Group AGM
Session 6
Electronic resources and ML
12.00-12.20
Europeana: an introduction, with case studies for MFL
Speaker: Janet Zmroczek (Head of European Studies, British
Library)
12:20-12:40
First World War Digital Archive – the Europeana connection –
the anniversary of World War I
Speaker: Stuart Lee (Director of Oxford University Computing
Services)/ Kate Lindsay (Project Manager First World War
Digital Archive) (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 7/Tours
14:15-15:45
Presentation on the Medieval and Renaissance West European
Special Collections at the Bodleian Library and tour of Duke
Humfrey’s Library.
Speaker/Tour leader: Eva Oledzka (Western Manuscripts
Reference Librarian, Bodleian Library, Oxford)
Visit to Bodleian Exhibition: Magical Books – From the Middle
Ages to Middle-earth (Exhibition runs from 28 May 2013 – 27
October
OR
Tour of the Taylorian (tbc)
16:00
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