Where possible, we have obtained presentation slides from the briefing session speakers at the 33rd UKSG Annual Conference. These are posted below, along with links to reviews of the sessions on UKSG's LiveSerials blog. Slides and reports of the conference's plenary sessions can be found here.
Group A: Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th April 2010
Link resolvers and the KBART project
Sarah Pearson, University of Birmingham
- view slides (PowerPoint show)
Making e-books easy (or trying to): establishing acquisitions procedures at the University of Surrey
Kate Price, University of Surrey
- view slides (PowerPoint show)
- read review of session on UKSG's LiveSerials blog
E-books for FE - a digital library for FE colleges
Anna Vernon, JISC Collections
- view slides (coming soon)
Communicating licensing terms - breaking the implementation impasse
Mark Bide, EDItEUR
- view slides (PowerPoint show)
Working with subscription agents - 2010 and beyond
Claire Grace, Beverley Delaney, The Open University
- view slides (PowerPoint show)
Article-level metrics at the Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Peter Binfield, the Public Library of Science
- view slides (coming soon)
- read review of session on UKSG's LiveSerials blog
Society journal publishing in the 21st century
Ian Russell, ALPSP
- view slides (PowerPoint show)
Threats and opportunities from the semantic web
Richard Padley, Semantico
- view slides (PowerPoint show)
- read review of session on UKSG's LiveSerials blog
Is the party really over now? perceptions of the Big Deal, one year on
Jill Taylor-Roe, Newcastle University
- view slides (coming soon)
- read review of session on UKSG's LiveSerials blog
- alternative review of session
The JISC Usage Statistics Portal
Ross Macintyre, The University of Manchester
- view slides (coming soon)
- read review of session on UKSG's LiveSerials blog
Librarians' attitudes to digital preservation: what does our survey reveal?
Colin Meddings, Oxford University Press
- view slides (PowerPoint show)
Maximising use of library resources at the University of Huddersfield
Sue White, Graham Stone, University of Huddersfield
- view slides (link to repository)
- read review of session on UKSG's LiveSerials blog
A library for the 21st century: is e-only finally a possibility?
Monica Crump, Neil O'Brien, NUI Galway
- view slides (PowerPoint show)
- read review of session on UKSG's LiveSerials blog
Telling Tales: a guided tour of the JISC Digitisation Programme
Ben Showers, JISC
- view slides (coming soon)
Group B: Tuesday 13th and Wednesday 14th April 2010
A beginner's guide to authentication
Simon Inger, Simon Inger Consulting
"Just in case" vs "Just in time": e-book purchasing models
Steve Sharp, University of Leeds and Sarah Thompson, University of York
- view slides (PowerPoint show)
SHEDL: the Scottish Higher Education Digital Library
Liz Stevenson, University of Edinburgh and Tony Kidd, University of Glasgow
- view slides (PowerPoint show)
Collaborative e-journals project in the NHS East of England
Lyn Edmonds, Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Carolyn Alderson, JISC Collections
- view slides (PowerPoint show)
Anti-acquisitions librarians in the era of economic downsizing
Dana Walker, University of Georgia Libraries and Jill Emery, University of Texas Libraries
- view slides (PowerPoint show)
- read review of session on UKSG's LiveSerials blog
Peaceful coexistence? Library-delivered e-textbooks and traditional student purchases: preliminary findings from a JISC Collections study
Paul Harwood, JISC Collections
- view slides (PowerPoint show)
Economics of information supply - is free information good enough?
Tom Roper, South Thames College
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E-book readers in a mobile-friendly library
Alison Brock, the Open University
- view slides (PowerPoint show)
- read review of session on UKSG's LiveSerials blog
- read alternative review on the blog
Real challenges in a virtual world
Philippa Sheail, Scottish Digital Library Consortium
- view slides (PowerPoint show)
- read review of session on UKSG's LiveSerials blog
The Linking ISSN: new data for new functions
François-Xavier Pelegrin, ISSN International Centre
- view slides (PowerPoint show)
"A picture is worth a thousand words": using visualisation techniques to get to grips with your user data
James Culling, DataSalon Ltd
- view slides (PDF)
Europeana: vision or madness?
Jill Cousins, EDL Foundation
- view slides (coming soon)
The UKSG Usage Factor project: a progress report
Richard Gedye, Oxford University Press
- view slides (PowerPoint show)