SCONUL Autumn conference: Fostering a resilient and sustainable library

We are excited to have our speakers confirmed for the SCONUL Autumn Conference on 18 November, including our keynote speaker: Dr Jummy Okoya, Dean of Office for Institutional Equity and Associate Professor of Leadership and EDI at the University of East London, who will present on Leadership through challenging times.

 Other sessions include:

• cybersecurity and business continuity
• climate sustainability and behaviour change
• sharing practice on successfully meeting the financial challenges facing the sector
• new approaches to content negotiations
• and opportunities to discuss the sector needs for CPD in growing the next generation of library leaders.

Speakers include:

• Ismini Vasileiou, Associate Professor in Information Systems at De Montfort University, Ciaran Talbot, Associate Director: AI and Ideas Adoption at the University of Manchester and Liz Jolly, Chief Librarian at The British Library on cybersecurity and business continuity
• Sue Ackermann, Director, University of Nottingham Libraries; Regina Everitt, Assistant COO (Service Excellence) and Director of Library, Archives, and Learning Services at the University of East London, and Helen Rimmer, author of The Kind Librarian, on successfully navigating the financial challenges facing the sector
• Jo Walley, Convenor of the True Leaders Network will lead a workshop session on building a confident and creative workforce: exploring the library’s CPD requirements. Marking the launch of a SCONUL project exploring the community’s needs for CPD support
• Jane Saunders, Associate Director: Content and Discovery at Leeds University Libraries and Co-convenor of the RLUK Collections Strategy Network will hold a workshop session on UK Print Book Collection (UK PBC): Managing Down Print Collections. This session will lay down ways of working together as libraries to deliver efficiencies for our own institutions whilst preserving access to content across the UK
• Elaine Sykes, Head of Open Research at Lancaster University will be leading the workshop on the future of SCONUL Statistics. This session is a real opportunity to help shape the key SCONUL service and help us future proof it in the coming years
• Rowan Williamson, Associate Director Library Services and Support at the University of the Arts London, and Deborah Phelpstead, Head of Sustainability at Birmingham City University on driving behavioural change to meet the climate sustainability challenge
• Anna Vernon, Head of Portfolio, Content Licensing at Jisc on the next round of content negotiations and next generation open access.

The conference will be held at EcoSmart accredited venue The Studio, 7 Cannon Street, Birmingham, B2 5EP on the 18^th of November from 10am to 4.30pm, with registrations opening at 9.30am. Tickets are £145pp.  For registration details please email sconul@sconul.ac.uk. 

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