A day in the life of a librarian
Adsetts Centre, Sheffield Hallam University
Tuesday 19 June 2001
Four librarians will provide a practical insight into the opportunities and challenges confronting them and their organisations in providing access to serials information in the 21st century. One of the key dilemmas for serials librarians today is how to get started with e-journals and then how to deal with the complexity of managing virtual collections. This will be a pivotal theme of the seminar which will also cover related areas in serials management such as budgetary control, purchasing decisions, collection administration and cataloguing, as well as looking at serials information from the user perspective and the relationship between publishers, agents and librarians.
This one-day seminar is aimed at publishers, subscription agents, librarians and those working elsewhere in the serials world. The speakers represent a range of libraries from the academic, research and business environments – with a distinct Yorkshire flavour.
There will be an opportunity for informal group discussion in which to share experiences of the topics raised in the presentations, together with a tour of the innovative Adsetts Centre.