LISDIS 2015 took place on Saturday 14 November 2015 and was hugely successful. The organisers would like to thank our sponsors, our speakers, and the attendees for making the day so enjoyable.
The slides from each presentation have now been uploaded to Slideshare and can be accessed by clicking the links below:
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. This presentation has an accompanying bibliography which can be downloaded from Google Drive here.
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
14.00-14.45 Guest Speaker
Emma Coonan: Publication without tears: tips for aspiring authors
15.00-16.00 Valuing the library
Natasha Chowdory: Measuring the value of a corporate library
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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