LIBER 34th Annual Conference 2005

University of Groningen, the Netherlands
Tuesday 5 - Saturday 9 July, 2005

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Day 1: Tuesday, 5 July 2005
Day 2: Wednesday, 6 July 2005

Thursday, 7 July 2005

Day 4: Friday, 8 July 2005
Day 5: Saturday 9 July 2005
Excursions in the conference week

Location: Offerhaus Room, Academy Building

08.30	Conference registration (entrance Academy Building)

09.00	Divisional Meeting: Library management and Administration Division

Session 3a
Technology helping strategic choices

09.30	Suzanne Jouguelet and Thierry Pardé (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France) Defining and building a decision support system: the experience of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France
	Ulrich Niederer (Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek, Luzern, Switzerland) The shared user file of the university libraries in German-speaking Switzerland as a tool for cooperation
	Stephen Town (Cranfield University, UK) Does measuring user satisfaction change anything? LIBQUAL⁺ in the UK
	Richard L. Jones (3M, Business Development Manager - Europe/ M.East/Africa, Library Systems, Berkshire, UK) The role of new technology in deciding strategic direction
11.15	Coffee / tea (sponsored by ADLIB Information Systems)

Session 3b
Strategic thinking: current choices

11.45	Planning versus reality: Staffing issues: back office/front office: how to improve service quality?
	Two case studies:
	Bill Simpson (University of Manchester, UK) Merger and centralisation: can we be big AND good?
	Nol Verhagen (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) Small is beautiful. Or not...

13.00

Lunch (sponsored by Elsevier Science)

14.00	Product overview: Tamar Sadeh (Ex Libris, Israel) Verde, the Ex Libris e-resource management system
14.00	Accompanying partner programme: A guided tour (on foot) through the Groningen city centre

Session 4a
Collaborative collection management

	Chair: Trix Bakker, Free University Amsterdam, the Netherlands
14.30	Elmar Mittler (Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Göttingen, Germany) Recent developments in Germany concerning cooperative collection development
	Henk Voorbij (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag, The Netherlands) Co-operative collection management in the Humanities in the Netherlands
	Gregory Walker (CURL-CoFoR, UK) The CURL Collaborative Collection Management Project

16.00	Coffee / tea (sponsored by EBSCO Information Services)

Session 4b
Collaborative collection management

	Chair: Steven Gheyselinck (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland)
16.30	Julien van Borm (Universiteit van Antwerpen, Belgium) Co-operative management of electronic document provision in St. Petersburg (Russia): the Copeter project
	Pentti Vattulainen (Varastokirjasto: National Repository Library of Finland, Helsinki, Finland) Maintaining access to print materials - the role of repository libraries
	Conference Partner: Yankee Book Pedler, USA Cathy Boylan Approval plans

Day 4: Friday, 8 July 2005