ASA Conference 2010
Royal College of Nursing, 20 Cavendish Square, London W1G 0RN, UK
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
09:30 Year two of the 'great recession': North American research libraries in fiscal crisis
Charles Lowry, Executive Director, ARL Libraries
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?
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
Panel discussion
13:00-14:00 Lunch
Information supply in the C21st: Changes in management, delivery, demand and use
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.
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
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...
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
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 Booking
Online Booking (for payment by credit card or pro-forma invoice)
Downloadable Booking Form (for payment by cheque or bank transfer)
Conference Sponsors
The ASA would like to thank the following organisations who have generously sponsored the 2010 ASA Conference:
