OCLC EMEA Regional Council Conference 2019

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Agnieszka Kasprzyk

Librarian

NUKAT

Agnieszka Kasprzyk graduated from the University of Warsaw in 2002 (Institute of English Studies) and has been working for NUKAT - the Union Catalog of Polish Research Libraries ever since that moment (in fact, we are age-mates as NUKAT was started in 2002 too!) She loves working on useful tasks, learning new things and sharing them with other people. She spends all her free time either walking her dog or riding her motorcycle. And yes, sometimes she does play computer games, though not very often.

26 February

04:15 PM

I. New Strategies for National Libraries and Networks in Serving their Communities

Track Four – Library Services

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Alexandre Lacroix

Chief Editor of Philosophie Magazine

and Co-Founder & President of Les Mots

Alexandre Lacroix is the Chief Dditor of Philosophie Magazine, a French monthly publication (50 000 ex.), which proposes a philosophical reflection on the current world news, since its creation in 2006. He's the Co-Founder and President of a school of creative writing, Les Mots. He teaches creative writing and Political Humanities at Sciences Po Paris. He has published eighteen novels and essays, as well as a series of stories for young children. His last book was Devant la beauté de la nature, Allary éditions (2018).

Credit for the picture: (c) Claude Gassian

27 February

01:30 PM

Plenary Session Five - Third Revolution of the Sign: How The Game Has Changed

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26 February

01:30 PM

Plenary Session Two - People are our catalysts for change

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25 February

01:40 PM

OCLC Research - Focus on European Library Practices

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Augusts Zilberts

Head of Public Relations

National Library of Latvia

Augusts Zilberts is the head of public relations at the National Library of Latvia.

In 2015, he obtained a master’s degree at Rīga Stradiņš University, specialising in international and public relations and in their strategic management. Previously, from 2008, he gained extensive experience in the Latvian media, developing analytical and descriptive materials on educational, cultural, social and environmental issues, as well as current events in the European Union.

Since 2014, Augusts Zilberts has been working at the National Library of Latvia and was involved in almost all the major events concerning the library’s new building – Castle of Light – planning their strategic communication and working on promoting the library as a contemporary cultural, educational and scientific centre to both the local and international communities.

Augusts Zilberts is a member of the Latvian Association for Public Relations Professionals, as well as an active lecturer on new media at the University of Latvia and conferences and seminars organised by Latvian memory institutions.

27 February

09:00 AM

O. Transformation of Library Space

Track Five – Academic Libraries/General

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26 February

04:15 PM

I. New Strategies for National Libraries and Networks in Serving their Communities

Track Four – Library Services

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Birgit Lotz

Executive Director of Central Libraries

Frankfurt Public Library

Birgit Lotzhas worked for Frankfurt Public Library since 1998 in different positions after beginning her career in Frankfurt University Library in 1989.Since 2012, she has served as Executive Library Director of Central Libraries: Central Library, Music Library and Library for Children and Teens. Birgit Lotz earned a Master of Arts (Romance Philology, Physical Education) from Frankfurt University and a Diploma in Library and Information Studies.She has nearly 30 years of broad-based library experience and presented in national and international conferences.

27 February

09:00 AM

M. Negotiating Changing Customer Behaviour

Track Three – Public Libraries/Museums and Archives

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Cécile Swiatek

Deputy Director

Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas Academic Library

Cécile Swiatek is Deputy Director at the Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas Academic Library, and Secretary General of the French academic library Executives Association (ADBU - www.adbu.fr). She is particularly involved with pedagogy and HE digital innovation and skills and competencies development.She acts as a proffesional trainer and leads the users training in information literacy at her institution.
Cécile Swiatek is deeply involved in the Researcher Libraries European League (LIBER) where she is anactive member of the Leadership group, co-created and co-chairs the digital skills for library staff and researchers working group and, is a member of the annual LIBER Congress Programme Committee.
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26 February

11:00 AM

E. Indicators for True Assessment of Student and Research Performance

Track Five – Academic Libraries/General

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Charlotte Wien

Professor of Scholarly Communication

University Library of Southern Denmark

Dr. Charlotte Wien is a full professor of Scholarly Communication. She is Head of Research and Analysis, Head of Research Services at The University Library of Southern Denmark. Dr. Wien is also chair of LIBER’s Working Group on Innovative Metrics. She is currently working on several projects related the international rankings of universities, to bibliometrics, to research registration, and to open science. Dr. Wien has published in high ranked international journals in several different disciplines including political science, media science, sociology and bibliometrics. She is a frequent speaker at international conferences and a very active participant in media debates about open science.

26 February

11:00 AM

E. Indicators for True Assessment of Student and Research Performance

Track Five – Academic Libraries/General

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Dalia Corkrum

Library Director

Whitman College

Dalia Corkrum has served as the Library Director for Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA since 2005.Service to the profession has been a career-long value, witnessed by extensive leadership positionswithin the American Library Association, the Association for College & Research Libraries, the OberlinGroup of Libraries, and Lever Press. Recently, she served as Chair of the Orbis Cascade Alliance, a 37-member academic library consortium in the Pacific Northwest. Currently, she is a delegate representingthe Americas to OCLC. Her extensive experience with OCLC and regional academic libraries hascontributed to her passionate commitment to global library collaboration in the service of highereducation.She speaks frequently about the future of academic libraries and teaches about the applications ofcopyright law for students, faculty and staff. Dalia holds a bachelor’s degree in art history from theUniversity of Washington and an M.S. in Library Science from Drexel University.

26 February

04:15 PM

J. Open Access: A Game Changer in Scholarly Publishing

Track Five – Academic Libraries/General

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26 February

11:00 AM

C. Changing the Game in Public Libraries

Track Three – Public Libraries/Museums and Archives

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Daniëlle Plantenga

Strategic Marketeer

Kennemerwaard Libraries

Daniëlle Plantenga has been working for Kennemerwaard Libraries for 4 and a half years as a Strategic Marketeer. She also works for KopGroep Libraries and is a member of the National Marketing Committee of the Public Libraries Association of the Netherlands.Daniëllestudied Business Economics and Trade, whilst also have followed various (online) marketing studies, including Nima C. She has always worked in retail and started at Intersport and worked for a European purchasing organization with shareholders such as Ahold, Migros and Kesko. As a marketer, she is always looking for a challenge. Marketing wasn't very popular within the library and her biggest goal was to turn that around. That takes time, effort and commitment. After 4 years she can say that she has succeeded, and she says that she owes this mainly to their customer research platform.

27 February

09:00 AM

M. Negotiating Changing Customer Behaviour

Track Three – Public Libraries/Museums and Archives

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27 February

11:30 AM

P. Community Efforts Effect Change

Track One – French Track

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Dominique Lechaudel

Engineer

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Dominique Lechaudelhas worked for the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research) since 1994. He is an engineer specialized in innovative IT projects related to libraries and E-resources and an early adopter of agile methods, especially Scrum.As the product owner of ezPAARSE and now ezMESURE, and in collaboration with the Couperin.org consortium, he leads the roadmap and constantly cares that those open source solutions answer the users’ needs

27 February

11:30 AM

P. Community Efforts Effect Change

Track One – French Track

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Don Hamparian

Senior Product Manager

OCLC

Don Hamparian is Senior Product Manager of EZproxy and Identity Management at OCLC, a global library cooperative that provides shared technology services, original research and community programs for its membership and the library community at large. At OCLC, Mr. Hamparian is responsible for product strategy and direction for products and software which protect and provide access to OCLC's services. With a degree in Industrial Engineering from The Ohio State University and several years in the technology field, he joined OCLC in 2000 in systems administration and architecture. In 2006 he joined the Product Management team to lead efforts in platform and shared application services.

27 February

09:00 AM

N. EZproxy® and Analytics

Track Four – Library Services

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27 February

09:00 AM

O. Transformation of Library Space

Track Five – Academic Libraries/General

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Emmanuelle Bermès

Deputy Director for Services and Networks

National Library of France

Emmanuelle Bermès has been Deputy Director for Services and Networks at BnF since 2014. From 2003 to 2011, she worked at the National Library of France (BnF), first in digital libraries and digital preservation, then in metadata management. From 2011 to 2014, she was in charge of multimedia and digital services at the Centre Pompidou (Paris, France). In the course of her career, Emmanuelle has held a number of responsibilities at international level (within Europeana, the Library Linked Data W3C incubator group, the IFLA Semantic Web Special Interest Group (SWSIG), the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC), and the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Consortium. Within the BnF, Emmanuelle is leading the Corpus project, an initiative to create a digital scholarship service for researchers.

27 February

03:15 PM

Plenary Session Six - The engagement of researchers in digital humanities: the BnF Corpus project

Plenary Session

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Eric van Lubeek

Vice President, Managing Director

OCLC EMEA and APAC

Eric joined OCLC as Director of Operations and Service EMEA in March 2007 and was appointed Managing Director OCLC EMEA in January 2011 and combines this since February 2014 with the responsibilities for the Asia Pacific region. Prior to joining OCLC, Eric was Managing Director of Infor's global library systems division. He has a long standing career in the library information systems industry in several positions, including consulting, sales, marketing and senior management.

26 February

03:00 PM

OCLC Highlights from 2018

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Esther Chen

Head of Library

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Esther Chen studied comparative literature and Polish language and literature at the Free University and the Humboldt University in Berlin.

After completing her studies she taught at the Institute for Slavic Studies at the Humboldt University and participated in the project entitled ‘Comparisons and interconnections within European scientific cultures’ at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt an der Oder, before carrying out training for academic librarianship at the Central and Regional Library in Berlin. From 2011 – 2012 she worked as an academic assistant for the German parliamentary committee of enquiry into ‘Internet and digital society’.

Before taking up her most recent post as chief librarian at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Ms Chen has worked at the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research as chief librarian from 2012- 2015.

26 February

04:15 PM

H. Game Changing Projects in the Museums and Archives Sphere

Track Three – Public Libraries/Museums and Archives

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Eugenie van den Hoven

Head of Academic Services

Erasmus University

Eugenie van den Hoven is Head of the Academic Services Department of the University Library of Erasmus University. She has more than 30 years of experience in project management and leading departments. Her main frustration used to be the unsuccessful implementation of changes by management the past decades in her career. This recently inspired her to complete a Master’s in Business Administration and a Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma and apply for a job at the University Library of the Erasmus University. Now, as Head of the Department, and after a successful implementation of the new library system, WMS, she works towards a new culture with a confident and empowered staff. She coaches people to change and learn themselves and implement the optimal cooperation towards the best results for the University and her Library.

27 February

11:30 AM

S. Empowering Change in our Libraries

Track Four – Academic Libraries

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27 February

09:00 AM

K. From evolution to revolution in French academic environments

Track One – French Track

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Félice Faizand de Maupeou

Research Engineer

Université Paris Nanterre

Félicie Faizand de Maupeou is a post-doctoral researcher at Nanterre University for the Laboratoire d’excellence (Labex), Les passés dans le présent. She is in charge of the development of the Artist Libraries Project, a research program that aims to make this valuable yet unknown resource accessible on the Internet. As a specialist of impressionism, she studied Monet’s library, which is the first library available on the project website.

26 February

04:15 PM

H. Game Changing Projects in the Museums and Archives Sphere

Track Three – Public Libraries/Museums and Archives

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26 February

04:15 PM

J. Open Access: A Game Changer in Scholarly Publishing

Track Five – Academic Libraries/General

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26 February

11:00 AM

D. Sharing and Collaboration

Track Four – Library Services

26 February

04:15 PM

I. New Strategies for National Libraries and Networks in Serving their Communities

Track Four – Library Services

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Frédéric Truong

Community Manager

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Community manager of the ezMESURE team since February 2016 and part of the "Statistics" team of the CNRS Portals, Frédéric Truong is involved in many activities. At the service of the CNRS units and Higher Education and Research institutions, he is in charge of following up on the analyses of the publishing platforms for ezPAARSE as well as the animation of the contributors' network "Analogist". Frédéric Truong is particularly involved in the animation and writing of articles to promote the ezPAARSE's blog on http://blog.ezpaarse.org

27 February

11:30 AM

P. Community Efforts Effect Change

Track One – French Track

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Frédérique Joannic-Seta

Director of Metadata Department

Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Frédérique Joannic Seta is Director of the Metadata department at the National Library of France (BnF) since 2016. She works together with the Director of ABES on the national program of bibliographic transition. Before, Frédérique was deputy Director at “La Contemporaine” and responsible for “Services Pôles associés- Gallica” at the BnF.

26 February

04:15 PM

F. Knowledge Transfer Powered by Metadata

Track One – French Track

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Gildas Illien

Library Director

Muséum d'histoire naturelle

A trained librarian with academic background in political science and communications, Gildas served in libraries abroad for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the nineties before spending 11 years at the National Library of France where he specialized in digital innovation and management. His duties and areas of expertise there included legal deposit, web archiving, digital preservation, and linked open metadata. He was director of the French national bibliographic Agency and led the bibliographic transition national plan between 2011 and 2016. He was then appointed chief librarian and deputy director of collections at the Natural History Museum in Paris where he is currently developing new projects in line with his vision of what a “post-digital”, naturalist library could be.

26 February

04:15 PM

H. Game Changing Projects in the Museums and Archives Sphere

Track Three – Public Libraries/Museums and Archives

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Grégor Blot-Julienne

Director

Caen Normandie Academic Library

Former bookseller, Grégor Blot-Julienne is Director at the Université de Caen Normandie Academic Library.His main interests are piloting documentary structures and scientific publishing issues. Grégor Blot-Julienne chairs the Assessment Committee of the French academic library executives association(ADBU - www.adbu.fr), where he leads the development of the European Performance and Key indicators comparative database initiated in 2017 by his predecessor.

26 February

11:00 AM

E. Indicators for True Assessment of Student and Research Performance

Track Five – Academic Libraries/General

27 February

11:30 AM

P. Community Efforts Effect Change

Track One – French Track

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Iegor Groudiev

Director

Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis

Iegor Groudiev started his carrier at the National Library of France, managing the Periodicals Legal Deposit. Then at the Ministry of Culture and Communication, he founded the Observatory of Public Reading and piloted studies on books and reading. He then devoted himself to the Documentation Centre of French Editions Documentation and the redesign of its offering. Since 2017, he has been the Library Director at Université de Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis.

26 February

11:00 AM

A. Collections to Connections: Space Transformation in Academic Libraries

Track One – French Track

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Isabelle Eleuche

Library Director

Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and Vice-President, ADBU

Isabelle Eleuche is the Director of the library of Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. She is also Vice-President of ADBU, the association of the directors of academic libraries in France.Her topics of interest are research and open science, advocacy, library architecture, library's transformations, and helping users to access easily to information and services.

27 February

11:30 AM

S. Empowering Change in our Libraries

Track Four – Academic Libraries

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Ixchel Faniel

Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist

OCLC Research

Ixchel Faniel, Ph.D. is a Research Scientist at OCLC. Her interests include improving how people discover, access, and use and reuse content. Her current research examines how academics manage, share, and reuse research data and librarians’ experiences designing and delivering supportive research data services. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Institute of Museum and Library Services, and National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information: http://www.oclc.org/research/people/faniel.html.

27 February

10:15 AM

Plenary Session Four - OCLC and the Evolving Scholarly Record

Plenary Session

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Jaap Naber

Business Controller

Rotterdam Public Library

Business Controller Executive with over 20 years of experience in finance and strategy in public and private sector institutions.

Joined the executive team of the RPL in 2014, helping mould the institution’s new strategy and ensure its viability following its becoming independent of the municipality of Rotterdam.

26 February

11:00 AM

C. Changing the Game in Public Libraries

Track Three – Public Libraries/Museums and Archives

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Jacquelijn Ringersma

Data Management Coordinator

Wageningen University & Research Library

Jacquelijn Ringersma is the Coordinator Data Management of the Wageningen Data Competence Center of Wageningen University. She has been working in Data Management since 2005, first for one of the Max Planck institutes and since 2010 for Wageningen University. From a position in the Library she initiated first discussions on data policy and how to organize the support from the Library. This has now resulted in a solid university policy and organized data management support.

27 February

09:00 AM

L. Research Data Management

Track Two – Research

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Javier García García

Deputy Director of Library Processes and Services

Universidad Complutense Madrid

Javier García García is the Subdirector de Procesos y ServiciosBibliotecarios at the Universidad Complutense Madrid (UCM), having previously been the Library Director of the Faculty of CC. Geology at UCM. He has also worked at the National University of Distance Learning (UNED). Javier has both a degree and PhD in Philosophy from UCM.

27 February

11:30 AM

R. Strategies Driving Library Technology Change

Track Three – Library Services

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Jenny Johnson

Executive Director of Marketing

OCLC

Jenny Johnson joined OCLC in 2002 and currently oversees product marketing initiatives across all OCLC products, including product website development and marketing support for sales.

Among many accomplishments, Jenny was the OCLC program lead on the advocacy research project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and is one of two primary authors for the report documenting that research, From Awareness to Funding: A study of library support in America, published in July 2008. She also spearheaded a national community awareness campaign for public libraries inspired by that research—Geek the Library. She successfully executed a multi-phase pilot and then a program expansion increasing availability to all US public libraries. Over the course of the project, more than 1,600 libraries implemented the Geek the Library program.

Jenny has more than 25 years of experience in marketing, including market and user research, branding, product marketing, and corporate communications. Prior to joining OCLC, Jenny was an Associate Vice President of Brand Strategy with Fitch, Inc., a worldwide design consulting firm.

26 February

01:30 PM

Plenary Session Two - People are our catalysts for change

Plenary Session

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27 February

09:00 AM

K. From evolution to revolution in French academic environments

Track One – French Track

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John Szabo

Chair, OCLC Board of Trustees and City Librarian

Los Angeles Public Library

John F. Szabo is the City Librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library, which serves over 4 million people—the largest population of any public library in the United States. He oversees the Central Library, 72 branches and the library's $143 million budget.

John has more than 20 years of leadership experience in public libraries. He has served as Director of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System (2005–2012), Clearwater (Florida) Public Library System (1998–2005), Palm Harbor (Florida) Library (1995–1998), and Robinson (Illinois) Public Library District (1992–1995).

He is a former member of the Executive Board of the Urban Libraries Council, a past president of the Florida Library Association, and past president of the Tampa Bay Library Consortium Board of Directors. John has served as an OCLC Global Council Delegate. He was elected to the Board of Trustees by Global Council in April 2014.

26 February

03:00 PM

OCLC Board of Trustees Update

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Julian McFall

Operations Manager

OCLC

Julian McFall is the Program Manager for implementation projects in EMEA. For WMS he focuses on Project Implementations whereas for EZProxy he manages the team[s] that implement and support EZProxy. Julian graduated from Lancaster University in Economics and moved into IT, working his way through various technical disciplines before joining OCLC in 2002 in the Operations area. Within Operations across EMEA Julian focuses on Projects, in the UK, he covers all areas of Operations.

27 February

09:00 AM

N. EZproxy® and Analytics

Track Four – Library Services

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Julie Calmus

Director

Direction des bibliothèques, de la lecture publique et des médias culturels

Julie Calmus is director of the service dedicated to public development for Bordeaux public libraries. This service aims at developing public and non public.

Public conquest is at the heart of Julie’s job. She believes that library embodies indeed the « great third place ». Because it is in the same time a place to learn, to play, to meet.

Julie is involved in the associative sphere, as a member of international commission of ABF (French library Association) and of the CE of EBLIDA.

26 February

11:00 AM

C. Changing the Game in Public Libraries

Track Three – Public Libraries/Museums and Archives

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Julien Roche

directeur des bibliothèques et learning center de l'université de Lille

Julien Roche served as Director of the libraries of the University of Lille – Sciences and Technologies from 2005 to 2018, where he led a strategic project for the university: the creation of the LILLIAD Innovation Learning Center, to support the innovation process of the university, including a new building opened in September 2016.

Following a merger of Lille’s three universities he became, in March 2018, director of libraries at the newly enlarged University of Lille.

From 2010 to 2016, Julien served on LIBER’s Executive Board. He was also Chair of the LIBER Steering Committee on Reshaping the Research Library and led the Leadership Working Group, which is responsible for two leadership programs: the Emerging Leaders programme (part of the LIBER brand since 2011) and the LIBER Journées programme, launched in 2015. In July 2018, he was elected as LIBER Vice-President.
Julien Roche also has several national responsibilities including co-chair of the French training professional program for newly appointed university library directors, Vice-President of the French National university and research libraries association, the ADBU, and co-chair of the “European and international” college of the French Open Science Committee since July 2018.

26 February

11:00 AM

A. Collections to Connections: Space Transformation in Academic Libraries

Track One – French Track

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Julie Therizols

Library Partnership Officer

OpenEdition

Graduated in Marketing of Services at Kedge Business School, since 2013, Julie Therizols works at promoting the OpenEdition Freemium program to the international university library community, in Europe as well as in Northern America.

26 February

04:15 PM

J. Open Access: A Game Changer in Scholarly Publishing

Track Five – Academic Libraries/General

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27 February

09:00 AM

O. Transformation of Library Space

Track Five – Academic Libraries/General

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25 February

01:40 PM

OCLC Research - Focus on European Library Practices

26 February

11:00 AM

B. Linked Data Interactive Mini Symposium

Track Two – Research

26 February

04:15 PM

F. Knowledge Transfer Powered by Metadata

Track One – French Track

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Karin Clavel

Manager of Library Resources

TU Delft

Karin Clavel is Manager of Library Resources at TU Delft Library, the Netherlands. She is responsible for running the Resources Department, which consists of Specialists in Acquisition & Metadata, Physical Collections, Customer Services and Special Collections, including Academic Heritage. As a member of the Library Management Team, Karin has a special focus on innovation and communication.

26 February

11:00 AM

D. Sharing and Collaboration

Track Four – Library Services

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Linda Thorn

Process Manager for Information and Reference Services

Uppsala University

Linda Thorn is the Process Manager for Information and Reference Services. She works with developing the physical and digital reference services, circulation and UX methods at Uppsala University Library.

27 February

11:30 AM

S. Empowering Change in our Libraries

Track Four – Academic Libraries

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Liz Jolly

Chief Librarian

The British Library

Liz took up the role of Chief Librarian at the British Library in September 2018. She has over twenty years’ experience in a variety of institutions in the university sector, most recently as Director of Student and Library Services at Teesside University. Prior to joining Teesside in 2008, Liz was Associate Director in Information and Learning Services at the University of Salford. An Honorary Professor at Teesside University, Liz is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of both CILIP and the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). From 2014-2016 she was Chair of SCONUL. A former Trustee of CILIP, Liz is a member of the Editorial Board of the New Review of Academic Librarianship and is a former member of the British Library Advisory Council.

27 February

11:30 AM

T. The British Library—working in partnership with public libraries

Track Five – General Library

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Liz White

Head of Strategy Development

British Library

Liz White joined the British Library in 2013 and is a member of the Strategic Leadership Team. Liz led the development of Living Knowledge: The British Library 2015-2023, which sets out the British Library’s mission to make its intellectual heritage available to everyone for research, inspiration, and enjoyment.

Prior to her current role leading the scoping study for the Single Digital Presence, Liz established the Living Knowledge Network in 2016, an innovative partnership between the British Library, 21 major public libraries, the National Library of Scotland, and the National Library of Wales, with a combined reach of more than 44 million users. Liz can be found on Twitter @lizcwhite.

27 February

11:30 AM

T. The British Library—working in partnership with public libraries

Track Five – General Library

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Lotta Muurinen

Project Manager of International Affairs

Helsinki City Library

Lotta Muurinen works as Project Manager of International Tasks at Helsinki City Library. She has been working at Helsinki City Library for ten years. She founded the first makerspace in Helsinki City Library in 2013 and worked as a Service Manager in the pilot library, Library 10, for a number of years. Her current job includes organizing international visits, projects and conferences. She is a true library lover and loves to see things to happen – fast.

27 February

09:00 AM

O. Transformation of Library Space

Track Five – Academic Libraries/General

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Lucia Werder

Deputy Director

Bremen Public Library

Lucia Werder is the Deputy Director of Bremen Public Library since 2016. Previously, she was Director of the public library in Leverkusen and Director of the public library in Eislingen, a medium-sized town in Germany.

27 February

11:30 AM

Q. Supporting Diversity and Inclusion

Track Two – General Library

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Maisela Edward Maepa

Executive Director, Core Programmes

National Library of South Africa

Maisela Eddy Maepa holds a PhD in Information Science (University of Johannesburg, South Africa). He has held several diverse positions, in academia teaching Library and Information Science and served as Director for Unisa Library’s Corporate Services. He currently works as Executive Director for Core Programmes at the National Library of South Africa, responsible for driving the National Library’s programmes and projects. His research interests include the use of technology by rural communities.

27 February

09:00 AM

M. Negotiating Changing Customer Behaviour

Track Three – Public Libraries/Museums and Archives

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Marianne Giloux

Research Engineer

ABES

Marianne Giloux works at ABES since 1994. She is currently responsible for the Metadata and Networks services department at ABES and has functional responsibility of Sudoc. She previously worked on several projects and applications managed by ABES around continuing resources, theses and library systems.

26 February

04:15 PM

F. Knowledge Transfer Powered by Metadata

Track One – French Track

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26 February

11:00 AM

A. Collections to Connections: Space Transformation in Academic Libraries

Track One – French Track

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27 February

10:15 AM

Plenary Session Four - OCLC and the Evolving Scholarly Record

Plenary Session

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Nicola Potgieter

Acting Director, Bibliographic Services and Collection Management

National Library of South Africa

Nicola Potgieter's career spans some 30 years, at primarily academic institutions including the University of Cape Town - Cataloger; Cape Technikon - Information Specialist and the National Library of South Africa (NLSA) Cataloger, Manager and Acting Director of Bibliographic Services and Collections Management (BSCM). One of her key responsibilities as the Acting Director BSCM, has been to effect the recent migration from III Millennium to WorldShare Management Services and the implementation of the accounting standard GRAP 103 via Record Manager which is the subject of my proposal. She belongs to and participates as a corresponding member of the IFLA Bibliography Section, a professional member of LIASA and a member of the Sabinet Product Advisory Board.

27 February

11:30 AM

R. Strategies Driving Library Technology Change

Track Three – Library Services

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Olena Waskiewicz

Senior Library Assistant (Technical Services)

University of Winchester

Olena Waskiewicz works in Technical Services, Periodicals and Acquisitions, and Library Communications at the University of Winchester. She is also a photographer,translator and generalist. Olena is the organiser of the Human Library, which serves as a diversity and equality platform for students, staff and the wider community.

27 February

11:30 AM

Q. Supporting Diversity and Inclusion

Track Two – General Library

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Ornella Papa

Researcher

INVALSI Library

Ornella Papa is researcher at the INVALSI Library. She graduated in Psychology and specialized in Psychological Evaluation at Sapienza University. She was a Teaching Assistant of “Introduction to Educational and Evaluative Research” at Tor Vergata University. She worked on OECD PISA, School Assessment and Improvement, Questionnaires of RAV, INVALSI tests.

26 February

11:00 AM

E. Indicators for True Assessment of Student and Research Performance

Track Five – Academic Libraries/General

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Paul Adels

Market and Product Development Unit Manager

Rotterdam Public Library

Marketing and business development executive with 20+ years experience in both private and public sectors. Since 2015 in charge of the Marketing & Product Development Department (85 FTE’s) at the Rotterdam Public Library.

26 February

11:00 AM

C. Changing the Game in Public Libraries

Track Three – Public Libraries/Museums and Archives

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Paul Jansen

Senior Product Manager

OCLC

Paul Jansen has been a Senior Project Manager at OCLC, based in Leiden, since 2011. He has managed several WorldShare implementation projects in the EMEA region. Currently, Paul and his team are working to migrate approximately 250 Dutch libraries from a regional ILL-solution to WorldShare ILL and Tipasa.

26 February

04:15 PM

I. New Strategies for National Libraries and Networks in Serving their Communities

Track Four – Library Services

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Petra Otten

Project Manager

Wageningen University & Research Library

Petra Otten was trained as a Librarian and as a Programmer and she also has a degree in Cultural Sciences. She worked for several years in a library related IT company as a Developer, Project Leader and Support Manager. In 2011, she started working at Wageningen University & Research Library. Since 2018,she is the WMS System Manager, Coordinator for the Metadata, Acquisitions and Documentation Team and Project Manager.

26 February

11:00 AM

D. Sharing and Collaboration

Track Four – Library Services

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Petter Nerelius

Project Manager and Process Developer

Uppsala University

Petter Nerelius is a Project Manager and Process Developer. He works with change management and support process leaders, library management and the HR department in their work with co-workers and groups in the different departments of the library. Petter is very experienced in the field of project management as well as change management and has worked with numerous organisations in both large and small projects over the last 20 years.

27 February

11:30 AM

S. Empowering Change in our Libraries

Track Four – Academic Libraries

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Rachel Frick

Executive Director

OCLC Research Library Partnership

Rachel Frick is the Executive Director of the OCLC Research Library Partnership—a transnational collaboration of library professionals who work together to develop network-level solutions. For more than 20 years, Rachel has worked with libraries on a wide array of systemic and strategic initiatives.

Her expertise includes improving digital library workflows, leading organisational change, building community, and creatively solving current challenges of the library field with a special interest in how libraries position themselves for the future. She honed her expertise in these and other areas throughout her career, including at notable leadership positions at the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), the Digital Library Federation (DLF), the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). She is a strong believer in the power of librarians to influence change and build stronger, knowledgeable, empowered communities, and is a passionate advocate for open culture and its potential transformative impact on the creative marketplace. Rachel earned her MSLS from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

25 February

01:30 PM

Welcome and Introduction to the OCLC Research Library Partnership

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25 February

01:40 PM

OCLC Research - Focus on European Library Practices

26 February

11:00 AM

E. Indicators for True Assessment of Student and Research Performance

Track Five – Academic Libraries/General

27 February

09:00 AM

L. Research Data Management

Track Two – Research

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Régine Detambel

Writer and physiotherapist

Régine Detambel is a writer (éditions Gallimard, Actes Sud etc) and physiotherapist. She is the author of Les Livres prennent soin de nous. Pour une bibliothérapie créative (Actes Sud, 2015), or “Books take care of us. For creative bibliotherapy”. She presented her method of creative bibliotherapy in Florence in April 2017 at the XVIII Worldwide Congress of Dynamic Psychiatry as well as at the symposium of narrative medicine at the Medical Faculty of Paris-Creteil. She trains information and library professionals to creative bibliotherapy.

Régine Detambel est écrivain (éditions Gallimard, Actes Sud…) et masseur-kinésithérapeute, auteur notamment de Les Livres prennent soin de nous. Pour une bibliothérapie créative (Actes Sud, 2015). Elle a présenté sa méthode de biblio-créativité, à Florence, en avril 2017, lors du XVIII Congrès Mondial de Psychiatrie Dynamique,ainsi qu’au Colloque de Médecine Narrative organisé par la Faculté de Médecine de Paris-Créteil.
Elle forme les professionnels du livre à l'animation en biblio-créativité.

26 February

03:30 PM

Plenary Session Three - From What We Count to What Counts: Creative Bibliotherapy

Plenary Session

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26 February

11:00 AM

D. Sharing and Collaboration

Track Four – Library Services

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Rita Marzoli

Head of Library and Documentation Centre

INVALSI

Rita Marzoli is Head of the INVALSI Library and Documentation Centre in Rome. The INVALSI Library is an OCLC WMS member. She graduated in German Studies from the University of Rome La Sapienza in 1994(MA). After that, in 1999, she graduated from the Vatican School of Librarianship (Apostolic Vatican Library, Città del Vaticano). She is editorial board coordinator for ‘INVALSI per la ricerca’, a double-blind peer-reviewed open access series published by Franco Angeli. Her research interests are: user studies, bibliometrics, open access, research evaluation, information literacy.

26 February

11:00 AM

E. Indicators for True Assessment of Student and Research Performance

Track Five – Academic Libraries/General

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Saara Ihamäki

Director of Regional Library Services

Helsinki City Library

Saara Ihamäki has been the Director of Regional Library Services at Helsinki City Library since 2010. She first came to Helsinki City Library as a Library Assistant back in 1989. Since then, but not continuously, she has as a Librarian and Chief Librarian in several libraries. During these years, she has also taken part in several development projects. She has also been an active member and a board member of the Finnish Library Association and member of EBLIDA EC 2007-2012. Her hobbies are running, gardening and dancing.

27 February

09:00 AM

O. Transformation of Library Space

Track Five – Academic Libraries/General

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Sanja Bunic

Zagreb City Libraries

Sanja Bunic is a sociologist and library consultant. She has been
employed in Zagreb City Libraries since 1996. From 2010 she has
organized and implemented library services for people experiencing
homelessness under the project name A book for the roof. She was member of the IFLA LSN Section (2013-2017) and co-chaired the working group for development IFLA Guidelines for Library Services to People Experiencing Homelessness.

27 February

11:30 AM

Q. Supporting Diversity and Inclusion

Track Two – General Library

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Sarah Hurter-Savie

Head of University Libraries

University of Nice Sophia Antipolis

The Chief Librarian, Sarah Hurter-Savie, has held several public library positions. She joined the Agence Bibliographique de l’Enseignement Supérieur (ABES) in 2001 as a user training manager within the Network Service, then joined the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis to lead the Documentary Information System Department within the University Documentation Service (SCD) in 2009.
She is the Head of University Libraries at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, a member of the Université Côte d'Azur, since 2013.

27 February

09:00 AM

K. From evolution to revolution in French academic environments

Track One – French Track

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Sebastien Peyrard

Head of Metadata Engineering Services

Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Sébastien Peyrard has worked at the BnF (National Library of France) since 2008. He currently is Head of Metadata Engineering Services, which coordinates the overall implementation of the Bibliographic Transition in terms of systems, data and people training, including FRBRization issues, and the data.bnf.fr linked data website. He has previously worked in the digital preservation (2008-2013) and the data.bnf.fr (2014-2015) project teams.

26 February

11:00 AM

B. Linked Data Interactive Mini Symposium

Track Two – Research

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Simona Turbanti

Librarian and Adjunct Professor of Library and Information Science

University of Pisa

Simona Turbanti is Librarian and Adjunct Professor of Library and Information Science at the University of Pisa. After a four years degree in humane letters (with a thesis in Library and information Science on an ancient book collection) and a Master’s in Library and Information Science at the University of Pisa. In December 2016, she obtained a PhD in Library and Information Science at Sapienza University of Rome with a research on the internationalization andvitality of Italian Library and Information Science Studies, a critical analysis and experimentation of bibliometric methods.Her main research interests are focused on cataloging, scientific communication, research assessment, bibliometrics and altmetrics. She has authored about forty papers and four book and she is involved in research projects at Sapienza University of Rome and University of Pisa. She is also a teacher of several academic courses and training courses for librarians and has been a speaker in many national and international seminars and workshops.

27 February

09:00 AM

L. Research Data Management

Track Two – Research

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Skip Prichard

President and Chief Executive Officer

OCLC

Skip Prichard is the fifth president of OCLC since its founding in 1967. Attracted to OCLC’s public purpose, he joined OCLC in 2013 after leading several multinational organisations that provide a variety of services and content to libraries around the world. He was appointed to the OCLC Board of Trustees in 2017.

Before joining OCLC, Skip was President and CEO of Ingram Content Group Inc., a leading global content and services provider. During his time at Ingram, he expanded Ingram’s international locations to continental Europe and Australia, strengthened its digital offerings, and repositioned the company as a services provider. Prior to his leadership at Ingram, he was President and CEO of ProQuest Information and Learning, a respected global publisher and information provider serving library, education, government, and corporate markets with offices around the world. Skip led a successful transformation at ProQuest. Earlier in his career, he held a number of executive positions with LexisNexis.

Among Skip’s many passions is his Leadership Insights blog where he interviews authors and thought leaders, and shares his views on a number of topics. His new book, The Book of Mistakes: 9 Secrets to Creating a Successful Future, is based on insights he has learned from more than a thousand of those interviews. His views on the future of books, publishing, and libraries have been featured in various national and international media. He is a frequent keynote speaker at conferences around the world.

Skip received his Bachelor of Science degree from Towson State University and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law.

26 February

09:30 AM

Plenary Session One - How can we change the game?

Plenary Session

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Sophie Raisin

Associate Professor in Genetics and Developmental Biology

University of Nice Sophia Antipolis

Recruited to the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis in 2004, Sophie Raisin is an Associate Professor in Genetics and Developmental Biology. Elected Head of the Department of Life Sciences in the Faculty of Sciences from 2008 to 2010, she became Vice-President of the Education and University Life Committee of the Academic Council (CFVU) in 2012 and was re-elected in 2016.
As part of the UCA site policy and the orientations adopted by the Executive Board, she proposes and leads the UNS training and university life policy in conjunction with the components of the UNS and all the relevant services.

27 February

09:00 AM

K. From evolution to revolution in French academic environments

Track One – French Track

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26 February

11:00 AM

C. Changing the Game in Public Libraries

Track Three – Public Libraries/Museums and Archives

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Thorsten Meyer

Chief Librarian and Deputy Directror

Leibniz-Information Centre of Economics and Business Studies (ZBW)

Thorsten Meyer is the Chief Librarian and Deputy Director of the Leibniz-Information Centre of Economics and Business Studies (ZBW) in Kiel and Hamburg. He is responsible for Human Resources Management and the Library. Currently, he is interested in digital strategies for libraries and related requirements for staff development to be able to adapt to the digital world. Libraries are influenced by the paradigm shift to “bringing the content to the user”, which development is supported as well as restricted by technical innovations. Thorsten Meyer is active in several national and international boards and committees, such as the Priority Initiative "Digital Information" of the Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany or as a reviewer for the German Research Foundation. He is also author of several articles about change management, social media in libraries or licencing.

26 February

04:15 PM

I. New Strategies for National Libraries and Networks in Serving their Communities

Track Four – Library Services

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Titia van der Werf

Senior Program Officer

OCLC Research

Titia van der Werf extends OCLC Research work and the Research Library Partnership across Europe. She has a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and information services industry. She combines community of practice and research expertise in the archives, documentation and library profession. Titia is knowledgeable of most digital library aspects: Metadata, Digital Preservation, Open Access, Discovery, etc. As a speaker and author, she reflects on, and helps the profession to determine its course in a digital future.

25 February

01:40 PM

OCLC Research - Focus on European Library Practices

26 February

04:15 PM

J. Open Access: A Game Changer in Scholarly Publishing

Track Five – Academic Libraries/General

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Veronique Lecat

Cataloging and Metadata Librarian

American University of Sharjah

Veronique Lecat is an adventurous cataloger who has been living in the United Arab Emirates for the past 4 years. She joined the American University of Sharjah in 2014, where migrating the library to OCLC's WMS was one of the first projects she was involved in. She earned her MLIS from McGill University in 2012, and has previously worked at the Canadian Museum of History and the Canadian Library of Parliament.

27 February

11:30 AM

R. Strategies Driving Library Technology Change

Track Three – Library Services

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Will Roestenburg

Policy Officer, Library Development

TU Delft Library

Will Roestenburg has been working in library management positions for more than 35 years. He currently holds a position as Policy Officer, Library Development for TU Delft Library in the Netherlands. From 2008 till June 2018, he was member of the MT and heading all the back office activities of the library. Before 2008, he served in management and consultancy positions for government, newspaper publishers and public libraries. TU Delft implemented OCLC’s WMS and WorldCat Discovery in 2015. As member of the UKB Heads Back Offices consultation group, Will was closely involved in the process of developing and implementing the cooperation on the consortium SURFmarket Knowledge base (2016 – 2018). In 2017, he was also member of the program group that investigated the possibilities for cooperation between the libraries of TU Delft and Wageningen University & Research and afterwards, Project Leader for one of the pilots in 2018.

26 February

11:00 AM

D. Sharing and Collaboration

Track Four – Library Services

Schedule

Welcome and Introduction to the OCLC Research Library Partnership

OCLC Research - Focus on European Library Practices

Break

Pro-action Café

Reception

Registration Opens

Welcome

Plenary Session One - How can we change the game?

Refreshments

A. Collections to Connections: Space Transformation in Academic Libraries

B. Linked Data Interactive Mini Symposium

C. Changing the Game in Public Libraries

D. Sharing and Collaboration

E. Indicators for True Assessment of Student and Research Performance

Lunch and Networking

Plenary Session Two - People are our catalysts for change

Refreshments

OCLC Highlights from 2018

OCLC Board of Trustees Update

Plenary Session Three - From What We Count to What Counts: Creative Bibliotherapy

F. Knowledge Transfer Powered by Metadata

G. Session cancelled

H. Game Changing Projects in the Museums and Archives Sphere

I. New Strategies for National Libraries and Networks in Serving their Communities

J. Open Access: A Game Changer in Scholarly Publishing

Close of Day One

Conference dinner

K. From evolution to revolution in French academic environments

L. Research Data Management

M. Negotiating Changing Customer Behaviour

N. EZproxy® and Analytics

O. Transformation of Library Space

Refreshments

Plenary Session Four - OCLC and the Evolving Scholarly Record

P. Community Efforts Effect Change

Q. Supporting Diversity and Inclusion

R. Strategies Driving Library Technology Change

S. Empowering Change in our Libraries

T. The British Library—working in partnership with public libraries

Lunch and Networking

Plenary Session Five - Third Revolution of the Sign: How The Game Has Changed

Refreshments

Plenary Session Six - The engagement of researchers in digital humanities: the BnF Corpus project

Close of EMEARC 2019

Coffee and Arrival

Introduction to the day

Icebreaker

Product Update

Break

Strategic Insights: Artificial Intelligence, Linked Data, Syndeo

User Group Update

Dicussion / Buffer time / Early lunch

Lunch and Networking

User Group Update and Member Presentations

Break

User Group Updates

Member Presentation

Break

Discussion on future cross-country cooperation

Continue discussion over drinks and snacks

Speakers

OCLC Brochures

Agnieszka Kasprzyk

26 February

I. New Strategies for National Libraries and Networks in Serving their Communities

Alexandre Lacroix

27 February

Plenary Session Five - Third Revolution of the Sign: How The Game Has Changed

Alex Clifton

26 February

Plenary Session Two - People are our catalysts for change

Annette Dortmund

25 February

OCLC Research - Focus on European Library Practices

Augusts Zilberts

27 February

O. Transformation of Library Space

Axel Kaschte

26 February