ASA Conference 2010
Royal College of Nursing, 20 Cavendish Square, London W1G 0RN, UK
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Final Programme
Monday February 22nd
08:45 Registration; tea/coffee
09:15 Welcome and Introduction
Peter Lawson, Chairman, ASA
Keynote Session: The Economic Downturn: Threats, Opportunities, Costs, Benefits
Chaired by Peter Lawson, Chairman, ASA
09:30 Year two of the 'great recession': North American research libraries in fiscal crisis
Charles Lowry, Executive Director, ARL Libraries [Presentation to follow]
10:00 The new dynamics of the information supply chain
Debbie Dore, Chief Commercial Officer, Swets
10:30 Navigating to calmer waters? A leading publisher's experience of the economic downturn
Roger Horton, Chief Executive, Taylor & Francis Group
Panel discussion
11:00 Coffee/tea
The Big Deal in the Economic Downturn: Disaster or Opportunity?
Chaired by Ann Lawson, Senior Publisher Relations Executive, EBSCO & Treasurer, ASA
11:30 "Long is the way and hard..." Managing Big Deals in the current economic climate.
Jill Taylor-Roe, Head of Liaison, Academic Services & Special Collections,
Newcastle University Library
12:00 Shift Happens: From big deals to better deals - serving more of the people more of the time
Bill Russell, Sales and Marketing Director, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
12:30 Short term gain vs. long term pain: the true cost of cutting back on intermediary services
Ian Middleton, Vice President and General Manager of EBSCO, UK [Presentation to follow]
Panel discussion
13:00-14:00 Lunch
Information Supply in the C21st: Changes in Management, Delivery, Demand and Use
Chaired by Robert Bley, Managing Director, Ex Libris
14:00 Research behaviour in the new information landscape
Ian Rowlands, Department of Information Studies, University College London
14:30 The scholarly communications conundrum: notes and queries from libraryland
Debby Shorley, Director of Library Services, Imperial College & JISC Collections Board
15:00 Publishing prospects 2010-2020: Digital decade or digital decimation?
Michael Mabe, CEO of International Association of STM Publishers
Panel discussion
15:30 Coffee/tea
Ebooks: Marketplace Innovations, Opportunities and Setbacks
Chaired by Anthony Watkinson, Senior Lecturer, Department of Information Studies, UCL
16:00 Digital Piracy
Mark Majurey, Digital Development Director, T&F Informa
16:30 EBooks Do Furnish a Room: Don't They?
Economics of the eBooks supply chain and likely future developments
Richard Gisborne, Head of Corporate, Professional and Institutional Sales,
Blackwell Information Services
Panel discussion
17:00-19:00 Wine reception
Tuesday February 23rd
08:45-09:30 Coffee/tea
The Economy (II): 2010 and Beyond: The Shape of Things to Come
Chaired by Robert Jacobs, Director of Publisher Relations, SWETS
09:30 The good, the bad & the ugly: the impact of the economic downturn on academic libraries
Hazel Woodward, University Librarian, Cranfield University; Director of Cranfield Press
10:00 The view from The City: Stories from information specialists at the frontline,
how they coped, changes they've seen, and what comes next.
Richard Grove, Commercial Director, Prenax
10:30 Out There: the scholarly landscape
Jerry Cowhig, Managing Director, Institute of Physics Publishing
Panel discussion
11:00-11:30 Coffee/tea
Innovations and Possible Futures...
Chaired by Sarah Durrant, Secretary General, ASA & Principal, Red Sage Consulting
11:30 Central administration of OA fees on behalf of UK HE institutions
Paul Harwood, Deputy CEO, JISC Collections, UK
12:00 C21st Rights Management (and what it might mean for agents)
Alicia Wise, Chief Executive, Publishers Licensing Society [Presentation unavailable]
12:30 The future of scholarly journals
Michael Jubb, Director, Research Information Network (RIN)
Panel discussion
13:00-14:00 Lunch (all delegates) followed by ASA Executive Committee Meeting (members only)
Conference Sponsors
The ASA would like to thank the following organisations who have generously sponsored the 2010 ASA Conference:
