Conference Themes 2011
GOING MOBILE, GOING GLOBAL
- Managing the growing complexity of delivery channels (desktop, web, mobile,smartphone, tablet (and organising knowledge for multiple audiences and channels)
- New services and resources via apps:
- QRcodes and NFC
- Mobile search and Geo-location
- Mapping services - Enterprise mobility: Intranet apps and collaboration
- Challenges around information access on devices: sustainability, viability, security of services
- Issues around licensing of products on devices e.g. security
- Mobile working and libraries
- Librarian focus: New roles and skills - mobile literacy
- Managing user expectations
- New role of the library: library as a space
eBOOKS: A NEW MODEL FOR PUBLISHING
- Social eReading
- eBooks and the user experience:
- using multimedia
- eReading apps - eBooks and libraries
- eBook business models: e.g. Apple vs. Amazon vs. Sony vs. Publishers
- Print vs. digital: Managing Information assurance, access, accuracy and authenticity
- Open access/Open Standards (e.g. ePub)
- Emerging ecommerce models for digital lending
- Digital Rights Management (DRM)
SEARCH AND INFORMATION DISCOVERY
- Open source
- Mobile search
- Social & real time search
- Managing privacy
- Identifying, evaluating, incorporating reliable content/resources
- Semantic search and discovery
- Multimedia search
- Embedded search
- New and alternative search engines
SOCIAL MEDIA, COMMUNITY AND COLLABORATION
- Leadership: skills and capabilities for 21st century working
- Personal vs. professional use of social media
- Working outside the corporate firewall
- Balancing privacy and personalisation when using social tools
- Collaborating in the workplace - Globally distributed team working
- Using SharePoint
- Knowledge sharing and creating trusted environment
- User generated content
- Crowdsourcing
- The role of the internet in society: eDictatorship and eDemocracy
- eScience/eResearch - partnering to provide shared services
- New and emerging business models around Twitter, e.g. Quora.com
THE FUTURE OF THE PROFESSION
- Diversification of the profession: evaluating changing roles
- Working creatively with social media for value and efficiency
- Aligning with the organisation: New roles to remain in current job
- Options for "independent information professionals"
- Information Professionals as content curators
- Librarians and the impact of self service
- Proving value: how information and knowledge management skills create value for organisations
- Management, marketing and negotiation skills for information professionals
- Information Governance
- Shared services and outsourcing
SEMANTIC WEB, OPEN AND LINKED DATA, OPEN STANDARDS
- Open and linked data creating new resources for improved information delivery
- Open standards
- Open and linked data in Government - where next?
- Training to use and interpret: skill sets and capabilities
- Licensing and business models in a world of linked data
- Apps and Visualisations
- Mash Ups
- Taxonomies, folksonomies and enterprise semantics
INNOVATION IN SERVICE PROVISION
- Smarter working: service provision with fewer resources and staff
- Libraries working with museums and archives in new ways: future roles of information Institutions
- Collaboration models
- Big Society
- Smart Cities: joined up services
- New models for delivering public services
CLOUD COMPUTING
- New roles for libraries and librarians
- Issues of: Responsibility, ownership and trust
- Moving to Google Apps
- The 'G' Cloud
- Software as a Service
- Platform as a Service
- Infrastructure as a Service
