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Suzanne Algra

Founder

Maakotheek

Suzanne Algra is founder of the Maakotheek Foundation. Her talent is to combine maker education/STEAM-activities with meaningful context, not only language or maths classes, but also geography, history and art. Suzanne combines her experience with innovation processes, change management, art education and maker education to help schools and libraries implement new ways of connecting STEAM with regular activities/curriculum.

21 February

01:30 PM

O. Working with Young People

Public/General Track

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Janet Aucock

Senior Manager (Cataloguing, Acquisitions and E-Resources)

University of St Andrews

Janet Aucock is Senior Manager (Cataloguing, Acquisitions and E-Resources) at the University Library at St Andrews. Janet manages the electronic thesis service which is centred on the St Andrews Research Repository. This digital repository is the home for the electronic full text of St Andrews research theses. Janet also manages the online catalogue SAULCAT and metadata creation for print material as well as a fast-growing amount of digital material. She also oversees the Library's Discovery service, SEEKER.

20 February

04:30 PM

H. The Realities of Research Data Management

Research Track

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Rafael Ball

Director

ETH Zürich

Rafael Ball has been Director of ETH-Library since 1 March 2015. He holds doctorates in Biology and Science History and studied Biology, Slavonic Studies and Philosophy at the Universities of Mainz, Warsaw and Moscow. He completed a two-year postgraduate qualification as a Scientific Librarian in 1996 and was Head of User Services at the Central Library in the Forschungszentrum Jülich from 1996 to 1998, which he ran from 1998. Ball was Director of the University Library of Regensburg from 2008 to 2015. He has written and edited numerous publications, and is a dedicated speaker and a lecturer at various universities. His main work and research interests are the library of the future, science communication and the role of the printed book in the digital age.

20 February

02:00 PM

The Innovation Potential

Plenary Session

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Leon Bang-Hetlevik

Library Director

Mandal Public Library

Leon Bang-Hetlevik is the Library Director in a small town public library. The library is poorly funded, but the love they feel for their jobs and their patrons make them strive hard to lift the library to be better and better year after year. At the core, he is a Librarian with an enthusiastic interest in technology and innovation.

21 February

09:00 AM

K. Being Customer Centric

Public/General Track

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Matt Barnes

Director

OCLC Sustainable Collection Services

Matt Barnes has been working in the academic library community since 2002 and has held senior-level positions at Blackwell Book Services, ebrary, and ProQuest. He is particularly interested in transforming data into insights that help libraries advance their mission. Matt holds a MBA from Washington State University, a certificate in Business Analytics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, and a certificate of Database Management from the University of Washington.

20 February

04:30 PM

E. Smart Spaces

Academic Track

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Dr Nick Barratt

Acting Director

Senate House Library

Dr. Nick Barratt joined Senate House Library in July 2015 as the Associate Director for Collections and Engagement, taking on the additional role of Acting Director from August 2017. Previously, he worked at The National Archives managing a team that looked after the medieval, early modern and legal records as well as maps, plans and photographs with additional responsibility for academic engagement. He chairs the Partners Advisory Group for the Midlands 3 Cities Doctoral Training Partnership.

20 February

04:30 PM

F. Customer Service and Outreach

Public/General Track

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Simon Barron

Senior Systems Developer (Open-Source Systems)

SOAS, University of London

Simon Barron is a library systems worker based in the UK currently working at SOAS, University of London. He has worked on implementations and support of open-source library systems including OLE and VuFind in higher education libraries. His professional interests include technology ethics in librarianship, open-source software development, freedom of information, opposition to digital surveillance, training in cryptography and encryption, and open access in academic publishing. He’s also an editor for the Journal of Radical Librarianship.

21 February

09:00 AM

L. New Directions for Discovery Services

Library Services Track

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Lee Baylis

Senior Analytics Innovator

Jisc

Lee Baylis is the Senior Analytics Innovator working on Jisc’s Effective Learning Analytics and Analytics Labs projects. He has been working on Analytics in the Library sector since his involvement in the Library Analytics and Metrics project (LAMP) at Mimas, where he worked before joining Jisc. Prior to that, Lee's career involved software development, systems administration, and a Ph.D in Liquid Crystal Physics!

21 February

09:00 AM

N. Learner Analytics

Technology Track

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Rolf Steinar Bergli

Library Leader

Lindesnes Public Library

An educated IT-professional turned Librarian, Rolf Steinar Bergli is a competent leader of a small public library. In his spare time, he likes to dig around in the local history, for which he was given the annual Lindesnes Municipal Culture Award.

21 February

09:00 AM

K. Being Customer Centric

Public/General Track

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Igor Beuker

Professional Speaker, Trendwatcher and Entrepreneur

Igor Beuker is an energetic professional communicator with 1,000+ live onstage performances, award-winning marketing strategist for brands Amazon, L’Oréal, Nike and Unilever, new breed trendwatcher, serial entrepreneur with multiple exits, and an angel investor. Besides being a guest teacher at leading universities, he delivers a series of game-changing marketing master classes and he is a board member at revolutionary retail, tech and media firms. Igor co-founded IAB Netherlands in 1997 and he held the Chairman role for more than five years.

21 February

03:00 PM

The Future of Libraries

Plenary Session

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Lars Binau

DTU Library Manager

Technical University of Denmark

Lars Binau’s educational background is an MBA in Strategy, Organisation and Leadership from Copenhagen Business School. Besides that, he has an Associate Degree in Accounting from Quincy College, Massachusetts, USA. He completed LIBER’s Emerging Leaders International Development program for the leaders of tomorrow’s libraries in 2016 and is currently enrolled in DTU Computes Big Data Business Innovation program. Throughout the last eleven years, Lars has been head of various departments within DTU Library at the Technical University of Denmark, and is presently in charge of library facilities and stacks. Lars is especially dedicated to transforming the physical locations into state of the art learning environment that enforces and reframes innovation at the Technical University of Denmark. Within the vision for this ongoing project, the strategic aim is to transform the library to a SMART Library – an indoor living lab.

20 February

04:30 PM

E. Smart Spaces

Academic Track

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Helene Blowers

Interim Executive Director, Member Relations

OCLC

Helene Blowers joined OCLC in 2012. She came to OCLC after serving five years with the Columbus Metropolitan Library as the Director of Digital Strategy. In 2007, she was named a Library Journal "Mover & Shaker," and in 2008 received ALA's LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Excellence for her many contributions to library and information technology. She is the lead author of Weaving a Library Web: A Guide to Developing Children's Websites (2004) and has written for several publications, including Computers in Libraries and Digitale Bibliotheek (Netherlands).

A well-known speaker and consultant on library innovation and fresh practices, she is best known for the discovery learning program, Learning 2.0: 23 Things, which she created while serving as Technology Director for the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library (NC) that created a massive 2.0 learning movement among libraries worldwide.

21 February

11:00 AM

Plenary Session Three - This is OCLC

Plenary Session

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Rebecca Bryant

Senior Program Officer

OCLC Research

Rebecca Bryant, Ph.D., serves as Senior Program Officer at OCLC Research where she leads and develops areas for the OCLC Research Library Partnership and for OCLC Research related to research information management (RIM). Rebecca previously served as the project leader for the RIM implementation at the University of Illinois where she led a campus-wide effort to implement the Elsevier Pure research information management system. She has also served as Director of Community at ORCID and spent a decade in the University of Illinois Graduate College as Assistant Dean.

20 February

12:00 PM

D. Workflows in European CRIS infrastructures: How smart are persistent identifiers?

Research Track

20 February

04:30 PM

H. The Realities of Research Data Management

Research Track

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Dr Stella Butler

University Librarian

University of Leeds

Since 2011, Stella Butler has been University Librarian at the University of Leeds where she has been responsible for large capital developments as well as new services in support of both research and learning. Between 2000 and 2011, she worked at the University of Manchester, first as Head of Special Collections and later as Deputy Librarian. She led a £17M project to transform the historic John Rylands Library, Deansgate.

20 February

04:30 PM

E. Smart Spaces

Academic Track

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Nicole Clasen

Head of User Services and ILL

ZBW Leibniz Information Centre for Economics

Nicole Clasen is a Librarian and Economist. She is Head of User Services at ZBW, which includes the Reference Services loan desk and WorldShare Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery

20 February

04:30 PM

I. Applying Data Science in the Delivery of Library Services

Technology Track

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Lorcan Dempsey

Vice President, Membership and Research, Chief Strategist

OCLC

Lorcan coordinates strategic planning and oversees Research, Membership and Community Relations at OCLC. He has worked for library and educational organisations in Ireland, the UK and the US. His influence on national policy and library directions is widely recognised. In 2010, he received the National Federation of Advanced Information Services' (NFAIS) highest award, The Miles Conrad Award. He is an honorary Doctor of the Open University in the UK and has twice received an ALCTS Presidential Citation for his work with OCLC colleagues. Lorcan began his career in public libraries in his native Dublin, Ireland.

Before moving to OCLC, he managed the UK higher education national investment in information services for Jisc. Lorcan can be followed on Lorcan Dempsey's weblog. He publishes and presents widely.

20 February

02:00 PM

The Innovation Potential

Plenary Session

21 February

01:30 PM

Q. Smarter Library Themes

Research Track

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Harm Derks

Library Services Manager

VU Amsterdam

Harm Derks is always enthusiastic and looking for (new) opportunities. He believes in Servant Leadership. Specialties: Reducing complexity of situations, projects, dilemmas and conflicts. Combining knowledge from different disciplines. Harm’s credo: First Doing, then Thinking.

20 February

12:00 PM

C. WorldShare Management Services

Library Services Track

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Annette Dortmund

Research Consultant

OCLC

Annette Dortmund, Ph.D, for more than two decades has worked for and with European libraries of all sizes, with a focus on inventorising and analysing library needs from multiple perspectives in a changing environment characterised by broader interoperability between systems and increasing group scaling of activities.

Annette joined OCLC in 2001 and has since worked for OCLC in several roles. Her current focus as a Senior Product Manager is market research and research consultancy.

Annette graduated from Mainz University with a MA in Book Sciences, Latin Philology and Comparative Literature, and was awarded a Ph.D in 1998.

20 February

12:00 PM

D. Workflows in European CRIS infrastructures: How smart are persistent identifiers?

Research Track

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Sandra Ehrens

Product Developer, Digital Content

Maastricht University

Sandra Ehrens has worked at the University library in Maastricht for almost 25 years, in different roles. At this moment, she is WorldShare coordinator. Together with a team of key users, she works on optimising the back office WMS applications and the improvement of search experience in Discovery for UL users. Next to that she is a key user for Acquisitions, Licenses and Analytics.

She very much loves her job, especially the combination of operational work and being the spider in the web in communications about WorldShare within the UL and with OCLC.

20 February

12:00 PM

C. WorldShare Management Services

Library Services Track

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Poul Erlandsen

Senior Librarian & ILL Specialist at The Royal Library/Copenhagen University Library

and EMEA Regional Council Executive Committee member

Since January 2012, Poul Erlandsen has been the Head of the Copenhagen University Library Department in the Black Diamond (The Royal Library) in Copenhagen. Before that (beginning November 2009) he was head of the ILL Section in the same library coming from a position as head of Document Access Services at the National Library of Education also in Copenhagen. Poul has a long experience in the field of resource sharing. From 2004 to 2007 he chaired the IFLA Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Standing Committee and in 2009-2010 he chaired the Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative Steering Committee. He has recently been a member of the ALA International Interlibrary Loan Committee and the NISO Physical Delivery of Library Materials Working Group. He is presently serving on the OCLC SHARES Executive Group.

21 February

01:30 PM

P. Collection Evaluation and Sharing Resources

Library Services Track

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Dr Federica Fina

Data Scientist

University of St Andrews

After a Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of St Andrews, Federica Fina now works as a Data Scientist at the University Library. She is part of the Research Data Management team who provides advice and support to research students and staff on general research data management and on how to comply with funders’ new requirements on data sharing.

20 February

04:30 PM

H. The Realities of Research Data Management

Research Track

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Benjamin Flämig

Head of Information Technology

Lucerne Central and University Library

After finishing his bachelor study in German and History, Benjamin Flämig started working as a Library Assistant in Berlin law firms in 2007. Since 2011, he has managed law firm libraries as a Law Librarian and became the responsible Information & Knowledge Manager for Greenberg Traurig Germany, LLP in 2015. Benjamin studied Information and Library Science at the University of Applied Sciences Cologne in a distance learning master program from 2014-2017. Recently, he finished his master thesis regarding discovery solutions for public and corporate libraries.

21 February

09:00 AM

L. New Directions for Discovery Services

Library Services Track

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Susanne Gesser

Historisches Museum Frankfurt

Curator, Head of Frankfurt Now!

Susanne Gesser studied Art Education and Theatre, Film and Television Arts at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. Since 1992, she has worked as a Curator at the Frankfurt Children’s Museum, where she has been the Head since 1998. Since 2003, she has also represented the Frankfurt Historical Museum in building planning matters; she has been a member of its New Concept Working Group since 2006, where she is also the Project Coordinator for the permanent exhibition Frankfurt Now! including the “City Laboratory”.

21 February

09:00 AM

K. Being Customer Centric

Public/General Track

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Martin Gill

Head of Academic Services

University of Huddersfield

Martin Gill is the Head of Academic Services within Computing and Library Services at the University of Huddersfield. He has responsibility for subject librarians, information resource provision, library systems and research support including the University Press.

He has previously worked as a Research Librarian, and prior to joining Huddersfield as a Subject Team Leader at the University of Leeds.

21 February

09:00 AM

J. Scholarly Communication Challenges

Academic Track

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Neil Grindley

Head of Resource Discovery

Jisc

Neil is the Head of Resource Discovery at Jisc, an organisation that empowers UK universities, colleges and skills providers to fully exploit the possibilities afforded by digital technologies and content. He leads on the provision of several of Jisc’s services and has strategic responsibility for ensuring that libraries, archives and their users can find and access great resources for teaching, learning and research. He is also leading on the creation of a new service, the National Bibliographic Knowledgebase.

20 February

04:30 PM

G. Connecting Regions with Global Impact

Library Services Track

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James Hodgkin

Associate Director of Library, Technology and Innovation and University Librarian

University of Gloucestershire

James Hodgkin worked at the School of Oriental and African Studies and Oxford University before spending ten years at the Natural History Museum becoming Library Services Manager. He moved to the University of Gloucestershire in 2014, as Deputy Head of Library and following a convergence with IT last summer, he was appointed Associate Director and University Librarian. The key areas James leads at the University are technology to enhance learning, academic engagement and learning space development.

21 February

09:00 AM

N. Learner Analytics

Technology Track

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Thomas Jouneau

e-Librarian

Université de Lorraine (UL)

Thomas Jouneau is currently working as an e-Librarian at the Université de Lorraine (UL), France. While managing electronic subscriptions and contents for the UL, he also oversees the development of services to researchers for the management and life cycle of their research data. At a national and international level, he co-animates the Indicators WG for the Couperin consortium and is also a member of the COUNTER Executive Committee. He is one of the first users of the ezPAARSE software, a project dedicated to the creation of usage data through the analysis of EZproxy's (and other reverse proxy software) logs.

21 February

09:00 AM

N. Learner Analytics

Technology Track

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Casper Karreman

Senior Developer

Muziekweb

Casper Karreman started working at Muziekweb in 2004. As Senior Developer, he is responsible for the software that supports the workflow to catalogue the musical metadata and for the development of the website and interconnectivity with public library systems and other external data sources.

21 February

01:30 PM

R. Library Automation

Technology Track

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Axel Kaschte

Product Strategy Director

OCLC EMEA

Axel Kaschte oversees the OCLC product management of legacy library management systems and EMEA-related product management tasks, to enable the transition of the library community to next-generation library services within the web paradigm. From 2009 to 2013, he joined Ex Libris as Strategy Director Europe where he was deeply involved in defining and presenting the new strategy of unified library automation and cloud solutions.

20 February

04:30 PM

G. Connecting Regions with Global Impact

Library Services Track

21 February

11:00 AM

Plenary Session Three - This is OCLC

Plenary Session

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Dr Judith Keene

University Librarian

University of Worcester

Judith Keene is University Librarian at the University of Worcester, also managing the e-learning team. She was involved from the outset in the Hive project and has published and given many talks on the subject. The challenges of running a joint library, in partnership with Worcestershire County Council, whilst meeting the developing needs of the University community mean that life is seldom dull. Currently, she is particularly interested in how libraries can demonstrate their impact.

21 February

01:30 PM

O. Working with Young People

Public/General Track

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Joris Komen

Secondary Education Coordinator

Kennemerwaard Public Library

Joris Komen is on a mission. With a background in photography, teaching and event coordination, he is keen on showing different angles on stories, images and media. With Kennemerwaard Library as an agile and learning organisation and together with a team of no-longer conventional librarians, he strives for an inclusive society through media literacy for children and students. Making the right choice requires access to and understanding of the right knowledge on the right level.

20 February

04:30 PM

F. Customer Service and Outreach

Public/General Track

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Dominique Lechaudel

Engineer

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Dominique Lechaudel has worked for the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Centre for Scientific Research) since 1994. He is an engineer specialising in innovative IT projects relating to libraries and e-resources. He is an early adopter of agile method, especially Scrum. As the product owner of ezPAARSE and now ezMESURE, and in collaboration with the Couperin.org consortium, he leads the roadmap and constantly cares that those open source solutions answer the users’ needs.

21 February

09:00 AM

N. Learner Analytics

Technology Track

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Annette le Roux

Chair, OCLC EMEA Regional Council and

Collection Developer, Archival Resources, University of South Africa

Annette le Roux started her career in the museum world and after serving as the curator of an open-air museum gravitated towards archives. She worked for twenty years as an Archivist. She has served on the committee of the South African Society of Archivists. She developed an interest in digitisation and completed a Masters degree in Digital librarianship (MDILL). She also has qualifications in archival science and museology.

In 2013, she moved to a post as Collection Developer Archival Resources in the Unisa Library, and is responsible for the digitisation of archival material. She is also interested in training.

20 February

09:00 AM

Welcome

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Kirsty Lingstadt

Head of Digital Library & Deputy Director of Library

& University Collections, University of Edinburgh

Kirsty Lingstadt is Head of Digital Library and Deputy Director of Library and University Collections at the University of Edinburgh. Kirsty is passionate about collections of all types - libraries, archives or museums - and engaging users with them. She believes that discoverability is key to user interaction with online collections as well as good and consistent service provision. Kirsty has worked at senior level in Historic Environment Scotland and South Lanarkshire and Fife Council.

20 February

04:30 PM

I. Applying Data Science in the Delivery of Library Services

Technology Track

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Scott Livingston

Executive Director

OCLC

Scott Livingston is currently an Executive Director at OCLC where he leads the Product Management team for Library Management Services. He also leads OCLC’s product operations and market segment strategy team. Prior to joining OCLC, Scott was Senior Vice President at Cision and was responsible for global product planning and marketing as well as US public relations, specialised sales and customer service operations. Previously, Scott was Vice President at LexisNexis Group and headed the public records solutions for legal professionals division. He also served in a variety of executive management roles related to legal news publishing and book publishing. He also was the Vice President - Strategy & Operations at ProQuest. Scott began his career as an Academic Law Librarian. He has extensive experience in big data, taxonomies, business development, strategic planning (with a particular emphasis on turn around strategies), acquisition integration, social media and publishing.

20 February

12:00 PM

C. WorldShare Management Services

Library Services Track

21 February

11:00 AM

Plenary Session Three - This is OCLC

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Marc Loman

Information Specialist

Wageningen University & Research - Library

An experienced Information Specialist and Project Manager in Academic Libraries, Marc Loman is a Digital Library Developer with a special interest in functional management, project management, information management, internet searching, discovery, information retrieval, user experience, usability, interfaces, collection management and information literacy education.

21 February

09:00 AM

L. New Directions for Discovery Services

Library Services Track

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John MacColl

University Librarian and Director of Library Services

University of St Andrews

John MacColl has been University Librarian at the University of St Andrews since February 2011. He has spent most of his career in libraries and information services in UK universities, with a particular interest in scholarly communications, library cooperation and the library role in support of research. Before moving to St Andrews, he spent three years as European Director of the OCLC Research Libraries Partnership. He was Chair of RLUK from 2015-2017, and is currently Secretary-General of LIBER.

21 February

09:00 AM

J. Scholarly Communication Challenges

Academic Track

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John McCullough

Senior Product Manager, WMS

OCLC

John McCullough has worked in library automation for the last 20 years. He was most recently serving as Vice President of Product Management at Innovative Interfaces when he moved to OCLC to manage next-generation offerings like WorldCat Discovery and WMS. John has his MLIS from the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada.

21 February

01:30 PM

R. Library Automation

Technology Track

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Claudia Mendias

Library Digital Services Manager

SOAS, University of London

Claudia Mendias began her research training in eyewitness memory labs, this lead to a Ph.D. in decision making and discretion. In 1999, she transferred her knowledge of discretion to verifying insurance risk calculator software. This work led to a range of system implementation projects for call centres, HR and timekeeping, student management, course development, and online examinations, amongst others. In 2014, she joined SOAS to help install the new Library Management System. Now, she manages the Library Digital Services Team responsible for the SOAS Library Catalogue and the databases servicing it.

21 February

09:00 AM

L. New Directions for Discovery Services

Library Services Track

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Balungile Brightness Moleme

Director of Information Access Services

National Library of South Africa

Balungile Brightness "Sonto" Moleme is currently the Director of Information Access Services and the Cape Town Campus Coordinator at the National Library of South Africa (NLSA). She joined the NLSA in 2014. She has extensive experience in working at academic libraries. Her interests are in heritage awareness and special collections. She completed her BA and Bachelor of Social Science Honours from the University of Natal, South Africa and MA in Library and Information Science, specialising in Digital Librarianship from the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

20 February

04:30 PM

F. Customer Service and Outreach

Public/General Track

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Chris Négrel

Director of Library Solutions

OCLC

Based in Paris, France he works with various OCLC teams in EMEA. He is also working with the members in the EMEA Regional Council. Prior to joining OCLC in 2007, he was the Managing Director of SirsiDynix in France (15 years). After graduating from the ENSB, Librarian School of France, he started working in the field of library automation. His strong background in librarianship is an asset when working with our members in large and international organisations and national libraries.

21 February

01:30 PM

P. Collection Evaluation and Sharing Resources

Library Services Track

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Johannes Neuer

Director of Customer Experience

The New York Public Library

Johannes Neuer has been the Director of Customer Experience at The New York Public Library since 2015. He's passionate about helping purpose-driven organisations create and implement effective programs that delight customers, incite engagement, and nurture communities. Neuer previously served as NYPL's Director of Engagement, a role in which he developed a high-performing email marketing program and built an engaged social media community comprising more than 1 million members.

21 February

09:00 AM

K. Being Customer Centric

Public/General Track

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Jake Orlowitz

Founder and Head of the Wikipedia Library

Wikimedia Foundation

Jake Orlowitz is Founder and Head of The Wikipedia Library at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that supports Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata. The Wikipedia Library provides 80,000 highly active Wikipedia editors with access to 100,000 journals, newspapers, books, and reference materials. Jake is a "librarian in spirit and practice" (but not by training or degree). He works remotely from Santa Cruz where he likes to standup paddle board and look for whales along the beach cliffs. You can find him online most of the time at @JakeOrlowitz or jorlowitz@gmail.com.

20 February

10:30 AM

The Smarter Library: A Vision from the Front Page of Wikipedia

Plenary Session

20 February

12:00 PM

B. Partnerships

Public/General Track

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Skip Prichard

President and CEO

OCLC

Skip Prichard became the fifth President and Chief Executive Officer of OCLC in July 2013. Before joining OCLC, Skip served as President and CEO of Ingram Content Group Inc., as well as President and CEO of ProQuest Information and Learning. He has also held a number of executive positions with LexisNexis. Among Skip's many passions is his Leadership Insights blog, and, he is a frequent key note speaker at conferences around the world. Skip received his Bachelor of Science degree from Townson State University and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law.

20 February

09:15 AM

A Shared Vision for a Smarter Future

Plenary Session

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Merrilee Proffitt

Senior Program Officer

OCLC Research

Merrilee Proffitt works in OCLC Research and provides project management skills and expert support to members in the OCLC Research Library Partnership.

Merrilee is an active member of the Society of American Archivists (SAA), the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries (RBMS-ACRL), and serves on ACRL's Research Planning and Review Committee. She has also served on the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) Editorial Board, the Text Encoding Initiative Council and currently serves on the Encoded Archival Description Working Group. Merrilee has authored or co-authored articles, guidelines, and reports for a variety organisations and professional journals. She is frequently an invited speaker at international professional conferences and workshops on topics relating to digital libraries and special collections.

Before coming to her current job in 2001, Merrilee was Director of Digital Archive Development at the Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley.

20 February

10:30 AM

The Smarter Library: A Vision from the Front Page of Wikipedia

Plenary Session

21 February

09:00 AM

M. Opportunities for Innovation

Research Track

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Erik Reuvers

Team Leader, 21st Century Skills

ProBiblio

Erik Reuvers has been working in the library sector for 7 years. With an interest in gaming and digital tools, the match with 21st century skills is apparent throughout his career. For the last two years, the combination of heritage and digital tools has sparked his interest, leading to a number of innovative projects which libraries within the Netherlands are eager to use!

21 February

01:30 PM

O. Working with Young People

Public/General Track

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Mary Sauer-Games

Vice President, Global Product Management

OCLC

Mary Sauer-Games joined OCLC in September 2014 as Vice President of Product Management. She came to OCLC from the American Psychological Association, where she was Senior Director, managing PsycINFO database products and leading an organisation of 70 staff. From 2002 to February 2014, she was Vice President, Product Management, Humanities, STM and Dissertations at ProQuest, a leading global information provider. Before that, from 1999 through 2002, she was Vice President, Product Management, at the Gale Group, a major reference and education publisher of electronic databases and textbooks. An active participant in publishing and information technology communities, Mary was President of the Board of Directors for the National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) from 2015-2016.

21 February

11:00 AM

Plenary Session Three - This is OCLC

Plenary Session

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Jane Saunders

Head of Collection Services

Leeds University Library

As Head of Collection Services at Leeds University Library, Jane Saunders is responsible for the teams who acquire, catalogue and manage the Library's print and electronic resources. She is responsible for resource discovery in the Library, for the digitisation of items owned by the Library and for the information resources budget. Jane is currently a member of the Jisc Collection Management Community Advisory Board.

21 February

01:30 PM

P. Collection Evaluation and Sharing Resources

Library Services Track

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Linda Schünhoff

Subject Specialist for Religion and Philosophy

Cantonal Library Baselland

After finishing her bachelor study in Culture Anthropology, European Ethnology and Religious Studies, Linda Schünhoff worked as a Media Centre Librarian in a secondary school in Basel from 2012-2015. She became a Subject Specialist for Religion and Philosophy at Cantonal Library Baselland afterwards and studied Information and Library Science at the University of Applied Sciences Cologne in a distance learning master program from 2014-2017. Recently, Linda finished her master thesis regarding discovery solutions for public and corporate libraries.

21 February

09:00 AM

L. New Directions for Discovery Services

Library Services Track

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Laurents Sesink

Head of Centre for Digital Scholarship

Leiden University Libraries

Laurents Sesink studied History at Utrecht University and Historical Information Technology at Leiden University and has a broad background in the area of Open Science. At the moment, Laurents is Head of the Centre for Digital Scholarship (CDS) at Leiden University Libraries. The central objective of CDS is to support and to facilitate digital scholarship within Leiden University, in close collaboration with other centres of expertise, with research institutes and with national and international research support organisations. Researchers can contact the Centre for Digital Scholarship for questions, consultancy, training and workshops on Research Data Management, Open Access, Data Science and Digital Preservation.

20 February

04:30 PM

I. Applying Data Science in the Delivery of Library Services

Technology Track

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Julie Seuront

Member Relations Liaison, EMEA & APAC

OCLC

Julie Seuront joined the OCLC Member Relations Team in May 2014. She is now responsible for membership activities in EMEA and APAC. Julie enjoys building relationships with libraries around the world.

Prior to joining OCLC, Julie worked with innovators in the legal sector and she holds an LLM in International Laws from the University of Maastricht, Netherlands. She has also lived in France, Canada and the United States.

21 February

11:00 AM

Plenary Session Three - This is OCLC

Plenary Session

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Jan Simane

Library Director

Kunsthistorisches Institut, Max-Planck-Institut

Jan Simane studied History of Art, Archaeology and Philosophy, a Master of Art and a Ph.D. at the University of Heidelberg. From 1994 to 1995, he did a Masters in Scientific Librarianship. Since 1996, he has been Head Librarian at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut. Jan is a member of the Standing Committee of the Art Libraries Section of IFLA, from 2009 to 2013, he was the Chair. Since 2015, he has been a member of the Standing Committee of Academic and Research Libraries in IFLA.

21 February

09:00 AM

L. New Directions for Discovery Services

Library Services Track

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Kate Strudwick

Creative Project Manager

Head4Arts

Kate Strudwick is Creative Project Manager for Head4Arts, a creative commissioning and production company in the South Wales Valleys specialising in community arts. It operates in partnership with four local authorities (Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Merthyr Tydfil and Torfaen) and uses engagement with the arts as the mechanism for promoting social innovation through participation in inspirational arts experiences, led by professional arts practitioners. It covers all art forms and all age groups and in 2018 celebrates its tenth anniversary.

In 2015 she participated in Tandem Europe, a programme for cultural managers exploring creative and collaborative solutions for contemporary challenges in our societies, where she met Pierluigi Vaccaneo. As a result, Associazione Culturale Twitteratura and Head4Arts have now developed a partnership to introduce the TwLetteratura method and Betwyll app to libraries and schools in Wales.

21 February

01:30 PM

R. Library Automation

Technology Track

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John F. Szabo

Chair, OCLC Board of Trustees and

City Librarian, Los Angeles Public Library

John F. Szabo is the City Librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library, which serves over 4 million people—the largest population of any public library in the United States. He oversees the Central Library, 72 branches and the library's $173 million budget.

John has more than 25 years of leadership experience in public libraries. He has served as Director of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System (2005–2012), Clearwater (Florida) Public Library System (1998–2005), Palm Harbor (Florida) Library (1995–1998), and Robinson (Illinois) Public Library District (1992–1995).

He is a former member of the Executive Board of the Urban Libraries Council, a past president of the Florida Library Association, and past president of the Tampa Bay Library Consortium Board of Directors. John has served as an OCLC Global Council Delegate. He was elected to the Board of Trustees by Global Council in April 2014.

21 February

11:00 AM

Plenary Session Three - This is OCLC

Plenary Session

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Elizabeth Tait

Information Management Senior Lecturer

Robert Gordon University

Elizabeth Tait is a Senior Lecturer and Subject Leader in Information Management at Robert Gordon University. Her academic interests are around the socio-cultural impact of digital technologies. She teaches courses in the areas of digital libraries, data management and information society. She has been awarded funding through the RCUK Digital Economy Funding to investigate the impact of digital technologies on libraries and participated in the IT as a Utility ‘Libraries of the Future’ working group.

20 February

12:00 PM

A. Meeting User Expectations

Academic Track

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Dominic Tate

Head of Library Research Support

University of Edinburgh

Dominic Tate is the Head of Library Research Support at Edinburgh University Library. Dominic manages the University’s Scholarly Communications, Research Information Systems, and Research Data Support teams. He has a background in scholarly communications, having previously worked at Royal Holloway, University of London and the University of Nottingham. Dominic started his career working for open access publisher, BioMed Central.

20 February

04:30 PM

H. The Realities of Research Data Management

Research Track

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Sarah Thompson

Head of Collections

University of York Library

Sarah Thompson is Head of Collections at the University of York Library. She is responsible for the teams who acquire, catalogue and make available print and electronic information resources, as well the budgets associated with acquiring those resources and the technology that underpins their management and discovery. She participates in a number of different national and international consortia groups and publisher and supplier advisory boards.

21 February

01:30 PM

P. Collection Evaluation and Sharing Resources

Library Services Track

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Linda Thorn

Process Manager for Information & Reference Services

Uppsala University Library

Linda Thorn is the Process Manager for Information and Reference Services at Uppsala University Library. She works with developing and coordinating circulation, virtual and physical information services, user experience and library space.

20 February

12:00 PM

A. Meeting User Expectations

Academic Track

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Pamela Tulloch

Chief Executive Officer

Scottish Library and Information Council

As CEO of the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC), Pamela is responsible for providing independent advice to the Scottish Government on Library and Information Services across Scotland. SLIC leads on the implementation of the Scotland’s first National Strategy for Public Libraries – Ambition and Opportunity: A Strategy for Public Libraries in Scotland (2015-2020), supports the FE and HE sector, NHS information service, and a number of special interest libraries. Recently, SLIC was invited by the Deputy First Minister, Mr John Swinney MSP to work with the Scottish Government and COSLA to develop a National Strategy for School Libraries. Pamela’s previous experience includes working with Glasgow Life, Glasgow City Council and Dundee City Council. Pamela currently sits on the British Library Advisory Council, Carnegie UK Trust Library Lab Advisory Group and the Engaging Libraries Advisory Group, University of Strathclyde’s Information Science Industrial Board, First Minister’s Reading Challenge Advisory Group and other library and information related alliances.

20 February

10:00 AM

Digital Focus on Scottish Libraries

Plenary Session

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Pierluigi Vaccaneo

Co-Founder, Cultural Association Twitteratura and

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Betwyll Srl

With a degree in Modern Literature from the University of Pavia, Pierluigi Vaccaneo began his career in publishing and now, he is a cultural manager. With the Cultural Association Twitteratura, of which he is Co-Founder, they use modern technology and current online communication dynamics to promote reading and the approach to cultural content in education, university, and business environments. The Association has theorised the “TwLetteratura Method", which has been recognised by the European Union as a best practice in the dissemination of social reading and a winner of numerous grants at national and international levels. Betwyll Srl, of which he is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, is a start up in social innovation that has developed the web-based application Betwyll to increase the reading experience through sharing and participation offered by the "TwLetteratura Method" with the goal of providing instruction at universities and large companies, and a tool for audience engagement, development, team building and lifelong learning.

21 February

01:30 PM

R. Library Automation

Technology Track

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Eric van Lubeek

Vice President, Managing Director

OCLC EMEA & APAC

Eric van Lubeek joined OCLC as Director of Operations and Service EMEA in March 2007 and was appointed Managing Director OCLC EMEA in January 2011. Prior to joining OCLC, Eric was Managing Director of Infor's global library systems division. He has a long standing career in the library information systems industry in several positions, including consulting, sales, marketing and senior management.

20 February

09:00 AM

Welcome

21 February

11:00 AM

Plenary Session Three - This is OCLC

Plenary Session

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Ton van Vlimmeren

Director

de Bibliotheek Utrecht

Ton van Vlimmeren has been the Director of the Public Library of Utrecht in the Netherlands, since 2010. He was trained and worked as a psychologist, as a teacher, an educational consultant and Director of Public Education in Utrecht. He also acted as Director for the city of Utrecht in different roles like Real Estate and Urban Planning, Districts and Civic Centres and Public Services. He was Vice President of the Dutch Library Association and member of the Governmental Steering Committee for Library Innovation in the Netherlands. He contributed to the International Libraries Network of the Bertelsmann Foundation, the Global Libraries Program of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Library 2020 program of the Reading and Writing Foundation. He is President of the Board of NBD/Biblion, the national library supplier in the Netherlands and member of the board of the Pica Foundation that supports innovation in libraries.

20 February

12:00 PM

B. Partnerships

Public/General Track

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Wilma van Wezenbeek

Director

TU Delft Library

In August 2011, Wilma van Wezenbeek became Director of the TU Delft Library, where she has been employed since 2006. Before joining the world of libraries, Wilma held a career in scientific publishing for over 12 years and has a severe interest in scientific communication. In 2016 in The Netherlands, during her EU Presidency, she focused on open science as one of her priorities. One of the recommendations of the May Council Conclusions was that each Member State should write a National Plan Open Science. Wilma has written and directed the National Plan Open Science of the Netherlands (released in February 2017).

20 February

02:00 PM

The Innovation Potential

Plenary Session

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Giuseppe Vitiello

Head, Library and Knowledge Centre

NATO Defense College

Giuseppe Vitiello is Head of the Library and Knowledge Centre at the NATO Defense College. From 2002 to 2004, he was Director of Publishing Activities at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Rome) and Head Librarian at the European Union Institute for Security Studies (Paris). From 1994 to 2001, he was in charge of the Electronic Publishing, Books and Archives Project of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg. Between 1989 and 1991, he was seconded to the European Commission to assist in the implementation of the "Telematics for Libraries" programme. Earlier, he held positions as Lecturer in Italian and Linguistics respectively at the Universities of Toulouse and Orléans and as Head of the R&D Department at the National Library of Florence. He has been consultant for various firms and governmental agencies in Europe and he is the author of six books and more than 100 articles on library and information science and history of culture and translation.

21 February

09:00 AM

J. Scholarly Communication Challenges

Academic Track

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Ingmar Vroomen

Project Manager, Information and Innovation

Muziekweb

Ingmar Vroomen works as Project Manager Information and Innovation at Muziekweb. His main responsibilities are the collaboration with scholars in the field of music and (digital) musicology, internationalisation, musical heritage, and the website muziekweb.nl. He holds a Ph.D. in History from Erasmus University Rotterdam.

21 February

01:30 PM

R. Library Automation

Technology Track

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Lucia Werder

Deputy Director

Stadtbibliothek Bremen

Lucia Werder has been the Deputy Director of Stadtbibliothek Bremen since 2016. Previously, she was Director of the Public Library in Leverkusen and Director of the Public Library in Eislingen, which is a medium-sized town in Germany.

20 February

04:30 PM

F. Customer Service and Outreach

Public/General Track

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Titia van der Werf

Senior Program Officer

OCLC Research

Titia van der Werf coordinates and extends OCLC Research work throughout Europe and has special responsibilities for interactions with OCLC Research Library Partners in Europe. She represents OCLC in European and international library and cultural heritage venues. Titia is a well-known manager in the library and archive sector and a leader in the strategic application of information technology in academic institutions. She has policy, research and service development experience, mostly in the area of networked information and digital preservation. She has published and spoken extensively on digital preservation issues and the design of repository/e-depot systems.

21 February

09:00 AM

M. Opportunities for Innovation

Research Track

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Erna Winters

Managing Director

Kennemerwaard Public Library

Erna Winters is the Managing Director at Kennemerwaard Public Library in the Netherlands, which is a merger of Alkmaar Public Library, Heerhugowaard, Castricum, 4 municipalities and 14 branches. She is passionate about libraries and feels this is the best job ever. Her role is varied, covering areas from change management to cultural entrepreneurship, managing the cultural change to an organisation that focuses on results and customer valued services, building local, regional and national networks, being responsible for strategic management, finance and creating political involvement and support.

20 February

04:30 PM

F. Customer Service and Outreach

Public/General Track

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Janette Wright

Dean of Libraries

United Arab Emirates University

Leading a redevelopment of the United Arab Emirates University Libraries to support a world class university with teaching and learning, research, accreditation and giving to the community. In previous roles in the library and publishing industry, Janette Wright worked to achieve better access to library services for people with disability and in remote locations; to support collaboration between libraries and to promote the benefit of libraries to the causes of community development, learning and scholarship.

20 February

04:30 PM

E. Smart Spaces

Academic Track

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Nicola Wright

Director

London School of Economics and Political Science

Nicola Wright joined London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 2008 from Imperial College London where she led the development of the UK Research Reserve project. In March 2015, Nicola was appointed Director of LSE Library. Nicola’s career has focused on leading change in libraries in order to meet the demands of a digital environment. She has enjoyed a varied career in the higher education and heritage sectors, with roles at the British Library, SOAS and Imperial College London. Nicola has contributed to a number of national and international initiatives in support of evolving the role of research libraries. She is currently Chair of the Board of Research Libraries UK and was previously a member of the UK Committee for the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme.

20 February

02:00 PM

The Innovation Potential

Plenary Session

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20 February

12:00 PM

A. Meeting User Expectations

Academic Track

Programme

Registration Opens

Welcome

A Shared Vision for a Smarter Future

Digital Focus on Scottish Libraries

The Smarter Library: A Vision from the Front Page of Wikipedia

Refreshments

A. Meeting User Expectations

B. Partnerships

C. WorldShare Management Services

D. Workflows in European CRIS infrastructures: How smart are persistent identifiers?

Lunch and Networking

The Innovation Potential

Lightning Talk Sessions

Refreshments

E. Smart Spaces

F. Customer Service and Outreach

G. Connecting Regions with Global Impact

H. The Realities of Research Data Management

I. Applying Data Science in the Delivery of Library Services

Close of Day One

Conference Dinner

J. Scholarly Communication Challenges

K. Being Customer Centric

L. New Directions for Discovery Services

M. Opportunities for Innovation

N. Learner Analytics

Refreshments

Plenary Session Three - This is OCLC

Group Photo, Lunch and Networking

O. Working with Young People

P. Collection Evaluation and Sharing Resources

Q. Smarter Library Themes

R. Library Automation

Refreshments

The Future of Libraries

Close of EMEARC 2018

Introduction

New Forms of Engagement

Learner Analytics

Data Driven Decisions

Technology and Mobile Strategy

User Experience

Collection Management

Lunch and Networking

Same sessions as in the morning

Break

Round Up

Speakers

OCLC Brochures

Suzanne Algra

21 February

O. Working with Young People

Janet Aucock

20 February

H. The Realities of Research Data Management

Rafael Ball

20 February

The Innovation Potential

Leon Bang-Hetlevik

21 February

K. Being Customer Centric

Matt Barnes

20 February

E. Smart Spaces

Dr Nick Barratt

20 February

F. Customer Service and Outreach

Simon Barron

21 February

L. New Directions for Discovery Services

Lee Baylis

21 February

N. Learner Analytics

Rolf Steinar Bergli

21 February

K. Being Customer Centric

Igor Beuker

21 February

The Future of Libraries