Annual Seminar 2008
Empowering Our Users
Organised by LIR HEAnet user group for libraries
Liberty Hall, Dublin : Monday 14th April, 2008
Programme
- 09.45 - 10.30 Coffee & Registration
- 10.30 - 11:45 Welcome Remarks by LIR Chair, Donna O Doibhlin, (UL),
followed by "The network reconfigures the library: place, collections, people and systems."
Keynote Speaker: Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President and Chief Strategist, OCLC
- 11.45 - 12.15 "Semantic Web: What is it? How does it affect libraries?"
Professor Mary Burke, School of Information and Library Studies, UCD - 12:15 – 12:45 " strategy for improving access to core text materials.
Elizabeth Murphy, NUI Maynooth - 12:45 – 14:00 Lunch provided for all attendees
- 14:00 – 14:30 "An Irish perspective on emerging social networking technologies and their possible implications for the library world."
John Breslin, DERI - 14:30 – 15:00 "Personal Technology as an Enabler for Students - Technologies students are using and their experiences."
Michael Nowlan, independent network and IT consultant - 15:00 – 15:30 "Self service information kiosk"
Tony Clarke, UCD. - 15.30 Seminar Close
- 15.45 LIR AGM