Thinking the Unthinkable

Event Type	Conference
Organizer	Health Sciences Libraries Group
Event Link	http://www.hslg.ie/conference
Dates	23 - 24 Feb 2006
Venue	Newpark Hotel
Location	Kilkenny, Ireland
Who can Attend	Public
Categories	Knowledge Management
Industry Sectors	Health Care
People	David Gurteen
Other	Events

When? February, Thursday 23rd - Friday 24th 2006

Where? Newpark Hotel, Kilkenny, Ireland

Thinking the Unthinkable (Draft Conference Outline)

Our 2006 conference attempts to build on the themes / territory explored in our previous conferences.

We’ve attempted to discern what new roles it might be necessary for us to adopt and have begun a process of strategic planning to help us agree and attain a set of jointly agreed goals and objectives. Underpinning all of this has to be the ability to reflect, think critically and dare to think the unthinkable about the future of our profession.

This year’s conference brings together a number of different speakers and insights, all of whom will be seeking to challenge us to look forwards, and to suggest skills and scenarios we must begin to strategise around.

As in the 2004 Conference, we want as much delegate participation as much as possible!

Note: deadline for registering for the conference is 3 February 2006

PROGRAMME

Thursday 23rd February

08.45 – 10.00 Registration and Coffee

10.00 - 13.00 Session 1: Open Access in Libraries: exploring the issues

10.00 – 10.45 Concepts of Open Access

Arne Jakobsson
President of EAHIL and University of Oslo Library
Library of Medicine and Health Sciences

10.45 – 11.00 Coffee

11.00 – 11.45 Open Access, Practical Issues

Niamh Brennan, Research Support System Administrator, Trinity College Library, Dublin

11.50 – 13.00 Work Groups

What practical steps can we take to drive the open access agenda? What are the advantages and disadvantages? What steps should the HSLG and it’s committee be taking to advance this?

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch & an opportunity to check into hotel rooms

14.00 – 16.00 Session 2: Knowledge Management Workshop

David Gurteen, Gurteen Knowledge and Shane Godbolt, National Clinical Governance Support Team, NHS, UK

16.00 – 16.30 Tea

16.30 – 18.00 Innovation Cafe: Thinking the Unthinkable
David Gurteen, Gurteen Knowledge, Fleet, United Kingdom

20.00 Conference Banquet

Friday 24th February

09.00 Breakfast

10.00 - 10.45 Session 3: The benefits of Chartership and Personal Development Planning. Why are ` these important and significant for Health Care Librarians?

(Tom Roper, Chair HLG UK, and Information Resource Development Co-Ordinator, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, UK )

10.45 – 12.00 Coffee and Trade Exhibition

12.00 Lunch and conference close

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