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UKSG One-Day Conference: London
November 16, 2011 @ 09:00 – 17:00 GMT
A Problem Shared? Understanding shared services and the drive for efficiency in scholarly communications
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“Shared services” are increasingly talked about in the scholarly communications sector, where prominent examples include centralised or consortial procurement (e.g. NESLi2) and collaborative cataloguing (e.g. OCLC). Sharing of processes or technology is often considered to be more easily implemented in the public sector, where competitive barriers are lower, but publisher enterprises such as CrossRef have also deployed the model successfully, and many library vendors’ systems provide the basis for shared service delivery.
Shared services are usually developed in order to improve quality, streamline functions and save money. With severe funding cuts beginning to take effect in higher education, organisations such as SCONUL, HEFCE and JISC, as well as individual universities and libraries, are planning to broaden the implementation of shared services in order to achieve new cost savings. Publishers and suppliers are also experimenting further with collaborative approaches to business challenges, such as ORCID for author identification.
This one-day UKSG conference will look back at lessons learned from past collaboration, both within and outside the scholarly communications sector, consider the likely impact of current ventures, and explore how else all stakeholders in the scholarly information supply chain can work together and make better use of shared services to achieve new efficiencies in the future.
The event will include a “Question Time”-style discussion with delegates having the opportunity to submit questions in advance, as well as during the debate. The programme allows plenty of time for networking and will close with a drinks reception.
Who should attend
The conference attracts a strategic audience of decision-makers from libraries, publishers and scholarly information community suppliers. We recommend you attend if:
• you wish to broaden your understanding of a concept that will become increasingly relevant
• you are likely to be involved in implementing shared services for any part of the scholarly information supply chain
• you will be affected by the introduction of shared services, either as a user of those services or as a supplier to those users
• you seek examples of how shared services have been successfully implemented to date
• you have an interest in shaping the future of shared services in our sector.
Fee
UKSG members: £160.00 + £32.00 VAT [20%] (total £192.00)
Non-members: £210.00 + £42.00 VAT [20%] (total £252.00)
The fee includes refreshments, lunch and the drinks reception.
Venue
76 Portland Place (Rutherford Theatre)
London
W1B 1NT
Tel.: +44 (0)20 7470 4884 (Reception)
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Programme
(Summary below. The full programme gives the presentation abstracts.)
09.45 Registration and coffee
10.15 Welcome and introduction by the Chair
David Sommer, Director, David Sommer Consulting
10.30 The shared solution: how can shared services help address some of the
pressure points facing libraries and, more widely, scholarly communications?
Ken Chad, Director, Ken Chad Consulting Ltd
11.00 Shared services: delivering success
Colin Cram, Managing Director, Marc1 Ltd
11.30 Coffee
12.00 Getting our act together? Shared service developments in HE libraries
Anne Bell, University Librarian, University of Warwick and
Chair, SCONUL Shared Services Steering Group
Liam Earney, Head of Licensing, JISC Collections
12.30 Shared services at national level – what, why, and for whom 
Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen, Deputy National Librarian and
Director of Library Network Services, National Library of Finland
13.00 Lunch
14.00 More cloud for TiU
Marc van den Berg, Director, Library and IT Services, Tilburg University
14.30 Building the scholarly universe
Mike Taylor, Research Specialist, Elsevier Labs
15.00 Tea
15.30 “Question Time”
chaired by David Sommer, Director, David Sommer Consulting
16.30 Wrap-up followed by drinks reception
17.30 Close
How to book
The booking date for this event has now passed. For further information, please e-mail Karen Sadler or telephone on +44 (0)1865 310834.
Cancellations
By Tuesday 8 November 2011 – full refund
From Wednesday 9 November 2011 – no refund
NB: UKSG reserves the right to alter or vary the programme due to events or circumstances
beyond its reasonable control without being obliged to refund monies.