Successfull course "Change: Making it Happen in your Library" again in August 2004

["Esther Bruls" <esther.bruls@xxxxxx>]

For the fifth time now, Ticer organizes the succesfull course "Change:
Making it Happen in your Library". The course aims to identify new
opportunities for libraries, to support librarians in developing a
vision, and to provide librarians with tools to initiate a change in
their own organisation.

Where and when
Tilburg University, the Netherlands, Tuesday evening 17 up to and
including
Friday 20 August 2004.

Target group
Library managers/directors and other senior managers from academic and
research libraries involved with strategic change.

Subjects
The changing outside world, library vision, new ways of supporting
research
and learning, strategic planning, models and frameworks for change
management, managing the process of change, organisational change,
managing
resistance, communication, human resource aspects of change, human
resource
management, and improvement programmes.

Course director
Jan Wilkinson, University Librarian and Keeper of the Brotherton
Collection
at the University of Leeds, UK, has wide experience of a variety of
academic
libraries, and has spent fifteen years as a senior manager. In her
time at
Leeds, she has been responsible for the leadership and development of
the
University Library, with a particular emphasis on human resource
management
and the direction of organisational change.

Programme

Tuesday, 17 August 2004
* Library Tour (optional)
* Welcome dinner

Wednesday, 18 August 2004
*Welcome and Introduction to the Course (Jan Wilkinson, University
Librarian
and Keeper of the Brotherton Collection, University of Leeds, UK)
* The Context for Change (Prof. Derek Law, Librarian and Head of
Information
Resources Directorate, University of Strathclyde, UK)
* What if your Imagination Became Reality? (Eugenie Prime, Former
Manager
Corporate libraries, Hewlett Packard Company, USA)
* Introduction to Course Case Study (Jan Wilkinson, University
Librarian and
Keeper of the Brotherton Collection, University of Leeds, UK)
* Frameworks for the Management of Strategic Change (Lucy Jeynes,
Director,
Larch Consulting Ltd, UK)
* Joint dinner

Thursday, 19 August 2004
* Course Case Study - Group Work
* Key Roles in the Change Process (Lucy Jeynes, Director, Larch
Consulting
Ltd, UK)
* Real-life case study: Lund University Libraries (Tore Torngren,
Assistant
Director of Libraries, Lund University Libraries, SWE)
* Communications in Change Management (Lucy Jeynes, Director, Larch
Consulting Ltd, UK)
* Course Case Study - Group Work
* Real-life case study: European University Institute and Tilburg
University
(Hans Geleijnse, Chief Information Officer, Director IT Services and
Librarian, Tilburg University, NL)
* Joint dinner

Friday, 20 August 2004
* Real-life case study: University of Sussex Library: a suitable case
for
treatment (Deborah Shorley, Librarian, University of Sussex, UK)
* Real-life case study: Telematics Institute Documentation Information
Centre (Olga Steen, Manager Information Centre, Telematics Institute,
NL)
* Course case study - group work
* People and Change (Lucy Jeynes, Director, Larch Consulting Ltd, UK)
* Course Case study - Group Work
* Course Conclusions, Case Study Lessons, and Individual Learning
Plans (Jan
Wilkinson, University Librarian and Keeper of the Brotherton
Collection,
University of Leeds, UK)

Website http://www.ticer.nl/04change/.

Organisation
The courses are organised by Ticer B.V., known from the International
Summer
School on the Digital Library, in cooperation with Tilburg University
in the
Netherlands, the Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library in
the USA,
the CERN Scientific Information Service in Switzerland,
Informationland in
the Netherlands/UK, the Netherlands Association for Library,
Information,
and Knowledge Professionals (NVB), Heriot-Watt University in the UK,
and
University of Leeds in the UK.


Contact

Ticer B.V.
Ms Anja Huijben and Ms Esther Bruls
P.O. Box 4191
5004 JD Tilburg
The Netherlands
T. +31 - 13 - 466 8310
F. +31 - 13 - 466 8383
E. ticer@xxxxxx
URL http://www.ticer.nl/



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