UKSG E-Resources for Further Education: Manchester

MANY THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS: Alexander Street Press, Cengage Learning EMEA, Credo Reference, EBSCO, Oxford University Press and Wolters Kluwer Health – Ovid.

Event summary

Promoting your e-resources successfully

UKSG presents the third in their popular series of events focusing specifically on managing e-resources in the Further Education sector.

This seminar will address the issues and practicalities of providing and managing effective high quality e-resource collections within Further Education libraries.  There will be opportunities to hear best practice case studies in managing e-resources with a particular focus on marketing techniques and strategies from current practitioners in colleges, as well as learning the latest about JISC’s eBooks for FE project.

The event will also give delegates the opportunity to meet with e-resource vendors who specialise in providing e-resources to the Further Education sector, as well as being a platform for discussion, problem solving and networking. 

Feedback from previous UKSG E-Resources for Further Education events:

•         “Excellent event, one of the best I’ve attended on e-resources.”

•         “Well presented, professional and very useful content.”

•         “Excellent balance of topics from speakers and vendors.”

•         “Well placed presentations, relevant and up to date”.

•         “Very impressed with quality of speakers, wide content of event, quality of venue and organisation of event.  Best course I have been to for several years!  Thank you!”

Fee

FE institution delegates:    £40.00 + £8.00 VAT [20%] (total £48.00)

The fee includes refreshments and lunch.

Venue

Manchester Conference Centre (Weston Rooms 2 and 3)
Weston Building
Sackville Street
Manchester
M1 3BB

Tel.:  0161 955 8181 (Reception)

Programme

10.00  Registration and coffee
  
10.20  Welcome and introduction by the Chair and UKSG representative
Kate Price, Head of E-Strategy & Resources, University of Surrey

10.30  Do we measure up?  Encouraging the use of electronic resources with active learning  
Anthony Beal, eLearning Adviser, JISC RSC Northwest

11.00  Extending your reach: providing library services to non-library users 
Chris Skerrow, eResources Librarian, Hull College 
Emily Armstrong, Libraries Manager, Hull College

11.30  Break and exhibition viewing

11.50  Vendor Presentation 1: Alexander Street Press 
12.05  Vendor Presentation 2: Credo Reference 
12.20  Vendor Presentation 3: Oxford University Press 

12.35  Who knows best?: student vs library/consortia purchase of e-books
Anna Vernon, Licensing Manager, JISC Collections

13.05  Lunch and exhibition viewing
 
14.00  Putting the ‘e’ in FE – charting the e-resource landscape  
Virginia Havergal, Resources & eLearning Manager, Bridgwater College

14.30  Vendor Presentation 4: Cengage Learning EMEA 
14.45  Vendor Presentation 5: EBSCO
15.00  Vendor Presentation 6: Wolters Kluwer Health – Ovid 

15.15  Break and exhibition viewing

15.35  Making the case for e-resources: creating exciting possibilities for teachers and students 
Chrissie Turkington, Head of ICT, eLearning & Libraries, Bolton School

16.05  Question Time

16.25  Evaluation forms and wrap-up

16.30  Close of seminar 

How to book

The booking date for this seminar has now passed.  For further information please contact Karen Sadler at UKSG by telephone – +44 (0)1865 310834 – or by e-mail – karen@uksg.org .  

Cancellations

By Wednesday 30 November 2011 – full refund
From Thursday 1 December 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.