BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:477@m25lib.org.uk DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20120622T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20120622T150000 DTSTAMP:20170315T115157Z URL:https://www.m25lib.org.uk/events/convergence-and-the-changing-roles-of -library-and-information-departments-event-ref-no-tg5conv/ SUMMARY:Convergence and the Changing Roles of Library and Information Depar tments [Event Ref. No. TG5/CONV] DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to offer the following event on the changing mod els in Library and Information Departments in Higher Education. Convergenc e\, super convergence or deconvergence. \n\nDifferent models now exist in the library and information services in the Higher Education sector. The aim of this event is to explore these different models and hear from speak ers about their own service and hear about their users experiences. As wel l as hearing about super convergence and how this is being taken forward i n a number of institutions. \n\nProgramme:\n\n9.30am: Registration\n\n10. 05: Welcome\n\n10.10-10.50: Gary Horrocks Director of Student Experience K ings College London \n\n10.50-11.35: Graham Bulpitt formerly Head of Infor mation Services at Kingston University and editor of Leading the Student E xperience: Super-convergence of Organisation\, Structure and Business Proc esses \n\n11:35–12pm: Coffee break \n\n12-12.45: Chris Haddock Library S ervices Manager and Maria Kilroy Customer Services Manager for L&SS. Liver pool John Moores University \n\n12.45-1.45: Lunch break \n\n1.45-2.30: Jan Haines (Head of Library Services) Oxford Brookes University \n\n2.30-3.15 : Steve Rose Head of Library and Learning services Southampton Solent Univ ersity \n\n3:30pm: Close. \n\nBiographies:\n\nGary Horrocks is Director of the Student Experience at King’s College London leading on the delivery of key student services to the College\, including articulating a student experience strategy\, student engagement and communications\, disability support services\, counselling\, health and well being\; information\, adv ice and guidance\, student finance\, student life\, induction & registrati on\, sport and active lifestyles.\n\nHe has twenty-two years of experience in library\, IT and information services in higher education\; seven in s enior strategic management with a considerable understanding of the resear ch\, teaching & learning needs affecting the provision of IT and informati on services in a multidisciplinary\, complex and demanding environment.\n\ nHe was previously Deputy Director of Research & Learning Support at King ’s and a champion of structural\, organisational and cultural change in Library and IT Services\, working to deliver cost-effective and customer-f ocused quality services in support of corporate strategy and the delivery of business critical goals across distributed campuses. He was responsible for the delivery of key support services to the College\; managing a teac hing support portfolio\, research support portfolio\, liaison with affilia ted NHS Trusts\; collection development\; training courses for staff and s tudents and communications strategy. He led on developing and maintaining strong partnerships and collaborative arrangements with students and acade mic staff and Professional Services teams ensuring synergy and strategic c ollaboration between Library and IT and senior College management. He dire cted three key teams: Information Resources\, Research & Learning Liaison and Research & Learning Development during this period\, overseeing the in formation and IT requirements of staff and students\, ensuring that they w ere understood and met\, and that all integrated library and IT services w ere promoted effectively. He was the senior advocate for all aspects of co nverged service provision across the College at a time of major modernisat ion projects and the roll out of extensive business critical IT systems.\n \nPublications include:\n\n• Trail Blazing – Information Chi efs Map the Path to Success (2008) Information World Review’s Horizons a nnual forward thinking supplement. [Professional profile]http://images.vnu net.com/v7_static/iwr/pdf/iwr_horizons_2008_small.pdf\n• Jane Dudman (2006) Ahead of the game [Professional profile] www.iwr.co.uk/infor mation-world-review/features/2154539/ahead-game Information World Review \ n• Haines\, M\; Horrocks\, G (2006) Health information literac y and higher education: The King's College London approach\, Library Revie w\, 55 (1)\, 8 – 19\n• Elspeth Hyams (2005) From academic li brarians to strategy consultants - Elspeth Hyams talks to Gary Horrocks\, CILIP Update www.cilip.org.uk/publications/updatemagazine/archive/archive2 005/julaug/horrocks.htm\n\nPresentations include:\nPoulson\, A. and Horroc ks\, G. (2012)\, "\;Convergence"\;\, in Law\, D. (ed.)\, Libraries in a Digital Age: Fundamentals and latest thinking\, The Marketing & Mana gement Collection\, Henry Stewart Talks Ltd\, London (online at http://hst alks.com/?t=MM1523239-Horrocks)\n\n• Horrocks\, GJ (2010) King ’s Health Partners: presentation to publishers at JISC Collections\, Lon don workshop to initiate a pilot licensing project for AHSCs in June 2010\ n• Horrocks\, G.J. (2008) Assumptions and issues: a response t o the Association of College and Research Libraries Environmental Scan: pr esentation to the CILIP Library & Information Research Group held at King ’s College London in July 2008\n• Horrocks\, G.J (2008) Up t o Standard: key technical standards for the effective delivery and uptake of online resources: presentation to JISC Collections’ Publisher Worksho p in November 2008\n• Horrocks\, G.J. (2007) Usage Statistics – making them work for information specialists: presentation at joint ev ent run by Evidence Base at Birmingham University and ISS at King’s Coll ege London held in December 2007\n• Horrocks\, G.J. (2006) Fed erated Searching – Why bother?: presentation to the JIBS AGM and confere nce held at the John Rylands University Library\, University of Manchester in November 2006\n• 'An introduction to desk top search tools ' - UKeiG Members' day - SOAS - June 14th 2006\n• Horrocks\, G .J. (2006) Battle of the Giants: a comparison of Web of Science\, Scopus & Google Scholar: presentation to the International Conference for Science and Business Information held in Nimes\, France October 2006\n\nHe is a gr aduate of King's College London (BA Hons History) and City University Lond on (MSc Information Science)\n\nGraham Bulpitt has worked with many instit utions on the development of integrated services to support students and s taff. He pioneered the Learning Centre concept at Sheffield Hallam Univer sity\, which integrates library provision with computing\, multimedia and educational innovation to create a flexible working environment which can act as a catalyst for change in learning and teaching.\n\nAt Kingston Univ ersity Graham was responsible for a converged Information Services operati on until his retirement at the end of 2011. He has recently edited a publ ication on Super-Convergence for the Leadership Foundation for Higher Educ ation.\n\nGraham has developed an international reputation for his work\, and he continues to act as an advisor to institutions in Europe on the dev elopment of academic services\, and related matters such as their integrat ion with programmes of study and research\, building design\, and staff de velopment. He acts as an external advisor for senior University appointme nts which have responsibility for integrated services.\n\nHe is a regular contributor to international conferences and a member of the editorial boa rd of the New review of academic librarianship. His recent work has inclu ded advice to French institutions on the adoption of the learning centre m odel\, providing the professional challenge to local authority reviews of public libraries and ICT services\, and work on building projects in Belgi um and Ireland. Graham has recently become a trustee of the Bishopsgate I nstitute in the City of London. He holds degrees from the Open University and University College London and is a chartered librarian and qualified teacher\n\nMaria Kilroy is the Customer Services Manager at Avril Robarts LRC\, Liverpool John Moores University. Maria is responsible for the co-o rdination\, development and effective delivery of all user-focussed servic es in Avril Robarts LRC.\n\nChristine Haddock is the Library Services Mana ger in Learning and Student Support\, Liverpool John Moores University. C hristine is responsible for the co-ordination\, implementation and develop ment of circulation policies and practices in Library and Student Support across all L&SS sites and line management of the site-based supervisors an d assistants.\n\nThe department of Library and Student Support (L&SS) was brought together in May 2009 following a thorough review into the student experience.\n\nL&SS was created by bringing together services and associat ed staff from Learning and Information Services and the Student Campus Cen tres and administrative services previously offered from the Faculty Offic es. The new service operates from the three Learning Resource Centres (Ald ham Robarts\, Avril Robarts\, I. M. Marsh) The services provided by L&SS include:\n \n• Library and learning resources: includes collection mana gement\, digitisation\, circulation of learning materials\, purchasing\, c opyright support\, information literacy\, research support\, archives\, st udy support\, liaison with academics.\n• IT support: includes open acce ss PCs and peripherals\, open access copying and print services\, lap top loans\, IT enquiry support\nStudent administration: includes enrolment\, student records\, finance\, coursework submission\, withdrawals\, module r egistration.\n• In addition\, the LRCs will provide space for other stud ent services\, most notably careers and employability and welfare and coun selling. This approach provides all core student support services in one campus-based location.\n \nThis placing and management of all student faci ng University services represents a huge change to the culture and practic es at Liverpool John Moores University and has been achieved in a relative ly small space of time.\n\nJan Haines from Oxford Brookes University\nJan Haines has been Head of Library Services at Oxford Brookes University sinc e 1993 and has responsibility for all services provided by the Library to meet the learning\, teaching and research needs of users. This remit inclu des the development of electronic information services\, reader services\, collection development and resource discovery\, and ensuring effective ac ademic liaison and support\, primarily through the teams of subject librar ians. Recent projects worked on have included RFID\, Talis Aspire\, RADAR (Brookes' blended research archive and learning object repository)and ongo ing planning for the new Library due to open next year. Brookes has recent ly restructured and has deconverged IT and Learning Resources into two sep arate directorates.\n\nSteve Rose from Southampton Solent University\nStev e Rose is Head of Library & Learning Services at Southampton Solent Univer sity.Working as part of the Learning and Information Service(LIS)\, a su per-converged service\, he has responsibility for the development and deli very of library services\, academic skills and student-facing IT support. Previous roles include Deputy University Librarian at Southampton Solent University\, Head of Reader Services at the Bodelian Libraries\, Universit y of Oxford\, and a number of professional roles within HE health and medi cal libraries. \n\nThis will be an interesting and informative short day a nd is aimed at staff from all levels to keep abreast with the changes happ ening in the sector. \n\nVenue: Room MAL 151\, Birkbeck College\, Universi ty of London\, http://www.bbk.ac.uk/maps \n\nPlease note that there are li mited places available for this event. \n\nTo book a place please use our online booking form or email the administrator via cpd25@lse.ac.uk \n\nCo st: £90 for members and £135 for other institutions. \n\nCancellations l ess than one week before the event will be charged a 50% cancellation fee. In the event of a ‘no-show’ on the day\, the full fee will be charged . 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