JIBS workshop on management data in higher education libraries

June 1 2009, School of Oriental and African Studies, London http://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/

Programme

09.15 Coffee and registration

09.45 Counting resource use: the publisher view (Suzanne Kidd Johnson, Nature Publishing Group)

10.10 Counting resource use: the aggregator view (Gareth Smith, Ebsco)

10.35 The role of Counter (David Sommer, Macmillan – member of COUNTER executive)

11.00 Break

11.20 Counting resource use: the librarian view (Jill Taylor-Roe, Newcastle University)

11.40 Discussion groups

12.10 Report back from discussion groups, identification of ways forward

12.45 Lunch

13.30 Annual SCONUL statistics: the aim, the approach, the compilation, known problems (Philip Payne, Birkbeck, University of London))

14.15 SCONUL statistics: the view from the Library (Selena Killick, Cranfield University )

14.45 Discussion groups: how can we improve consistency and comparability?

15.15 Break

15.35 Reports back and proposed actions

16.15 Close