[InetBib] international Ticer course Digital Libraries à la Carte

["Jola Prinsen" <jola.prinsen@xxxxxx>]

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Dear INETBIB subscribers,

I am happy to announce the 13th edition of our annual summer
school on the digital library:
www.tilburguniversity.nl/ticer/08carte/.

Kind regards,

Jola Prinsen

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Digital Libraries à la Carte
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Modular, International Digital Library Course
Tilburg University, The Netherlands, 25-29 August 2008


Ticer's new, modular course for librarians and publishers
"Digital Libraries à la Carte" will be held at Tilburg
University, The Netherlands, 25-29 August 2008.

Modules
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> From its 'menu' of seven one-day modules (some held in parallel
on the same day), you can pick your choice:
* Module 1: Strategic Developments and Library Management
* Module 2: Technological Developments - Threats and
  Opportunities
* Module 3a: Hands-on - Library 2.0
* Module 3b: Change - Making it Happen in Your Library
* Module 4: Libraries - Partners in Research and Open Access
* Module 5a: Libraries - Partners in Teaching and Learning
* Module 5b: Put Yourself in the DRIVER's Seat - Practical
  Training for Building a European Repository Network

Some subjects covered
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* Scholars - their behaviour and workflow
* Marketing research libraries
* Performance and outcome measures
* Library automation challenges
* Intelligent catalogues
* MESUR project - scholarly usage data
* OAI Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE)
* Libraries in Second Life
* Change management
* Open Access
* Research data
* Institutional repositories
* The library's educational role
* Information literacy
* Librarian faculty and teaching faculty collaboration
* Physical learning spaces
* Practical training in the DRIVER environment

Lecturers
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Top speakers will present their views. Below is just a small
selection.
* Stephen Abram, Vice President Innovation, SirsiDynix, was
  listed by Library Journal as one of their first "Movers and
  Shakers"
* Marshall Breeding, Director for Innovative Technologies and
  Research at Vanderbilt University, is creator and editor of
  the Library Technology Guides
* Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard is Director of Development at
  the Aarhus State and University Library in Denmark, where
  the Summa integrated search interface is being developed
* Barbara Galik is Executive Director at Bradley University,
  US and involved in many educational activities in Second
  Life
* Wendy P. Lougee, University librarian and McKnight
  Presidential Professor at the University of Minnesota, has
  engaged her library in significant assessments of scholarly
  behaviour
* Roswitha Poll is an internationally acknowledged expert in
  the field of performance and outcome measures
* David Prosser, as Director of SPARC Europe, is much sought-
  after speaker on Open Access
* Christina Tovoté, Pedagogical Developer at Stockholm
  University Library, is responsible for the integration of
  information literacy in university courses
* Jan Wilkinson, University Librarian and Director at The
  University of Manchester, has chaired very successful change
  management courses at Ticer before
* Alex Wright is Writer and Information Architect and authored
  "Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages"

To guarantee a highly interactive programme, the number of
participants is limited, lectures contain an interactive
component, and two modules offer hands-on sessions in a
computer room. The course is recommended by JISC, DEFF -
Denmark's Electronic Research Library, CBU/KUB - the conference
of university libraries in Switzerland, NFF - the Norwegian
Association of Special Libraries, the DRIVER II project, and
The Helsinki University Libraries.

The course website can be found at
www.tilburguniversity.nl/ticer/08carte/.

If you register before 1 June 2008, you will get a ?150
discount. There are special discounts for DRIVER II
participants and associates.

        A profound update in just one to five days?
         Then Tilburg is the place to be this summer!


Further information
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Ms Jola Prinsen
Manager Ticer
Tilburg University
Library and IT Services
P.O. Box 90153
5000 LE Tilburg
The Netherlands
Tel. +31 13 466 8310
Fax  +31 13 466 8383
jola.prinsen@xxxxxx
www.tilburguniversity.nl/ticer/