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:670@m25lib.org.uk DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20161118 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20161119 DTSTAMP:20170315T121504Z URL:https://www.m25lib.org.uk/events/digital-tools-bring-researchers-libra ry-marketing-library-21st-century-event-ref-tg4mark/ SUMMARY:My Digital Tools Bring all the Researchers to the Library - Marketi ng your Library in the 21st Century [Event Ref. TG4MARK] DESCRIPTION:Twitter: @cpd25_M25 #cpd25\n\nAre you wondering if your library is 21st century enough or if it is providing a relevant service? Come and book on our session as we discuss what role libraries should provide.\n\n Libraries have always played a leading role in collating and making availa ble a wide range of resources to learners and researchers alike.  Learn m ore about the way that libraries have risen to the challenge of providing good quality tools to meet the needs of modern researchers. In this sessio n\, we will hear from four different speakers who will look at a variety o f innovative new avenues: engaging with social media\, curating datasets\, creating dataset tools\, as well as engaging with researchers in virtual communities.\n\nThis session is aimed at staff who are trying to juggle al l the new forms of technology\, who are curious about the new services the y could provide and who are keen to expand the reach of the library beyond its four walls.\n\nProgramme [All programmes are subject to change]\n\n\n \n9.30 -10.00\nRegistration and Refreshments\n\n\n10-11.30\nDavid White\n\ nHead of Digital Learning\, University of the Arts London\n\n\n11.30-12.3 0\nTobias Blanke and Jane Winters\n\nDepartment of Digital Humanities\, Ki ng’s College London\n\n\n12.30-13.00\nLunch\n\n\n1300-14.00\nAlan Danski n\n\nMetadata Standards Manager\, British Library\n\n\n14.00-15.30\nNeil I nfield\n\nManager of the Business &\; IP Centre\, British Library\n\n\n 15.30-16.00\nSummary and close\n\n\n\nSpeaker biographies:\n\nDavid White\ n\nDavid is Head of Technology Enhanced Learning\, University of the Arts London. He worked in various roles where digital\, learning and culture me et – including: senior lecturer in visual communication\; making proof-o f-concept pilots for delivering media online at the BBC\; managing a team of online distance learning developers at the University of Oxford and le ading numerous studies around the impact of the Web on learning and higher education. He is best-known for his idea of “Visitors and Residents” - understanding individuals motivations to engage online. David enjoys pub lic speaking and has contributed to broadcast media having been heard on R adio 4\, the World Service and ABC Australia.  He blogs and tweets extens ively\, working in open manner to develop thinking and discourse in online spaces. For David\, the digital is much more than a set of tools or a cha otic library\, it’s a place where we can learn and live.\n@daveowhite da vid@daveowhite.com\n\nTobias Blanke\n\nTobias is a Reader in Social and Cu ltural Informatics\, Department of Digital Humanities at King's College Lo ndon. Social and cultural informatics describes the interdisciplinary stud y of digital information and its interaction with social and cultural prac tices.  Tobias has lead on several projects in the social and cultural in formatics\, from open source optical character recognition\, open linked d ata\, scholarly primitives to document mining and information extraction f or research.\n\nTobias’s interest in big data is based on two recent gra nts in born-digital big data: ‘Our Data Ourselves’ and the follow-on ‘Empowering Data Citizens’. The former is internationally first to app ly cultural analytics to mobile phone (meta-)data and seeks to democratize big social data\, while the latter is a collaboration with the Open Data Institute (ODI) and investigates the constraints and possibilities of publ ishing born-digital social media data openly.  Tobias is interested in bi g data is based on a long-term exploration of the digital transformation o f archival research for history especially as the scientific coordinator o f the large-scale European Holocaust Research Infrastructure\, which inclu des several high-profile partners including the Dutch NIOD\, USHMM\, Wiese nthal Institute among others.\n@tobias_blanke\n\nJane Winters\n\nJane Wint ers is Professor of Digital Humanities at the School of Advanced Study\, U niversity of London\, where she is responsible for developing digital huma nities strategy. She has led or co-directed a range of digital projects\, including most recently Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities\; D igging into Linked Parliamentary Metadata\; Traces through Time: Prosopogr aphy in Practice across Big Data\; the Thesaurus of British and Irish Hist ory as SKOS\; and Born Digital Big Data and Approaches for History and the Humanities. Jane is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society\, and a memb er of RESAW (Research Infrastructure for the Study of the Archived Web)\, the Academic Steering &\; Advocacy Committee of the Open Library of Hum anities\, the UK Medical Heritage Library Academic Advisory Group\, the Ad visory Board of the Digital Preservation Coalition\, the Advisory Board of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure\, the Advisory Board of th e Academic Book of the Future project\, and the Advisory Board of the E-Ar k project. Her research interests include digital history\, web archives\, big data for humanities research\, peer review in the digital environment \, text editing\, the use of social media in an academic context\, e-repos itories\, and open access publishing.\nWeb: http://research.sas.ac.uk/sear ch/staff/126/professor-jane-winters/\nTwitter: @jfwinters\n\nAlan Danskin\ n\nAlan is a Metadata Standards Manager at the British Library. He is the British Library representative to the Joint Steering Committee for Develop ment of RDA and is currently Vice-Chair of the European RDA Interest Group . He is also Vice-Chair of the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group.\nHe h as worked on developing a collection metadata strategy which includes guid ance for digitization projects. Alan is interested in addressing the defic iencies in the library’s legacy metadata\, so knowing the range and freq uency of enquiries that require specific attributes\, such as gender or fo rm. His team has created existing datasets at http://www.bl.uk/bibliograph ic/download.html . These datasets have been created to complement exhibiti ons\, and they also publish datasets that have been requested by researche rs. He has also created a tool called Researcher Format Datasets that woul d allow anyone to build their own dataset from British Library data.\n@BLM etadata\n\nNeil Infield\n\nNeil is Manager of the Business &\; IP Centr e at the British Library. He manages a team of 12 business and intellectua l property reference experts\, providing information and advice to invento rs\, business start-ups and entrepreneurs. In his four years at The Britis h Library Neil has introduced a number of innovations\, including a range of workshops and one-to-one information advice sessions\, as well as free downloading to memory sticks. He has spoken widely on innovation in busine ss information. Prior to the British Library\, Neil spent 16 years working in the investment world in the City of London. As well as managing busine ss information services\, he also developed an intranet\, website and staf f newsletter. In addition he was involved in the development of Corporate Governance activities. He has been active in the information profession fo r many years\, and in 2003 was named the Information World Review - Inform ation Professional of the Year. In recent years he has sat on the Board of SLA Europe (part of the global organization for innovative information pr ofessionals). For 2006 he became their president\, and was given a fellows hip in 2008.\n@ninfield\n\nVenue:\n\nFoyles Centre\, The British Library\, 96 Euston Rd\, London NW1 2DB\n\nWebsite – http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/qui ckinfo/loc/stp/\n\nPlease congregate in the entrance foyer\, visitor passe s will be issued at reception.\n\nCost: £80 for members and £120 for oth er institutions.\n\nCancellations less 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.\n\nTo book a place please use our on line booking form. 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