After an extremely difficult selection process the LISDIS committee is delighted to announce our programme of speakers for 14th November. We were overwhelmed by both the quantity and the quality of submissions we received, and would like to thank everyone who applied. If you haven’t got your ticket yet there are still a couple left via Eventbrite, we look forward to seeing you in November!
LISDIS 2015
10.00-10.30 Registration and welcome
10.30-11.30 Collections and discovery
Sarah Hume: Wine, Witchcraft, Women, Wool: Classifying Women’s Studies collections
Lizzie Sparrow: The use of an academic library’s discovery layer: an ethnographic approach
Lucy Saint-Smith: “La Femme Bibliophile”: Women as book collectors in an age of bibliomania
11.30-12.00 Coffee break and poster session
12.00-13.00 Public libraries and the community
Ian Clark: To what extent do community libraries address the concerns of the digital divide?
Alanna Broadley: The provision of lesbian fiction in public libraries in Scotland
Martyn Greenwood: Graphic Novels in England’s Public Libraries
13.00-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-14.45 Guest Speaker: Emma Coonan
15.00-16.00 Valuing the library
Natasha Chowdory: How to measure the value of a corporate library
Marion Harris: An investigation into the effect of increased tuition fees on the attitudes and opinions of UK academic library staff towards their customers and their roles
Sonja Kujansuu: Libraries under attack: the destruction of libraries and the role of the international community in protecting and aiding libraries
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