Interlend 2009

Welcome to Interlend 2009!

This year our theme is Keeping It Simple: support, development, practicalities.  The venue is booked and the conference will take place at the Lancaster House Hotel from 29th June to 1st July 2009.

The conference team are currently busy finalising the booking form and inviting speakers and we plan to open bookings in the next few days.  The first draft programme is now available on the wiki and we will update the wiki with further details about the programme content and speakers as it becomes available.

Each week we will post an update here on the news blog with information about the conference and any other FIL events that may be happening in the regions.  Please feel free to leave comments and ask questions!

You can choose to receive this news feed via email or RSS.  Please see the links on the right to subscribe to either version of the feed and let us know if you have any difficulties receiving the information.  Major updates will also be posted on the FIL mailing list (www.jiscmail.ac.uk/fil)

We look forward to seeing you at Interlend 2009!

Sarah

Seminar Sessions

Just over 2 weeks to go until Interlend 2008!  You should be getting an email from Tracey sometime soon (or you may have already had one) asking you to choose from our seminar options.  We have 2 seminar sessions on Tuesday, one in the morning and one in the afternoon and each session has 3 options.

In the morning we have Graham Titley’s interactive workshop on working out the real cost of an ILL, Liz Hart and Graham Muncy from IAML will be addressing some of the essential questions about music interlending and Stephanie Taylor is looking at some of the practicalites of interlending and technology.

In the afternoon there will be another opportunity to attend Stephanie’s session or you can catch Karen Blakeman looking in more detail at using Web 2.0 applications in library and information services or we have Antony Brewerton exploring innovative approaches to marketing a library service.

Sorry if we’ve made it difficult for you to choose!  If you would like more information have a look at the conference programme on the wiki for full details.  We’ve added some extra time after lunch for you to meet our speakers and ask them questions and most of our speakers will be around for the whole conference so there should be plenty of opportunities for you to have a chat with them.  In addition we hope to make as many presentations as possible available on the website after the conference so hopefully whatever choice you make you won’t miss out!

Look forward to seeing you all in a couple of weeks!!

Sarah

Wiki Notifications

We’ve had a great response to the Interlend wiki – over 100 of you have signed up for notifications and that’s far more than we ever expected when we set up the experiment. We will be asking for feedback about the wiki at the conference and via the mailing list but please get in touch via the comments or email us if you have any thoughts.

Some people have been in touch to ask about notifications, especially as some of the emails are a little strange due to our constant tweaking of the programme! If you would prefer not to receive the email notifications you can switch them off by logging out of the wiki and then unchecking the notification box when you log back in. Alternatively drop us an email and we can switch off the notifications for you. The main updates will continue to be posted here so feel free to subscribe to the blog if you prefer. Blogs, wikis and RSS still a mystery – Karen Blakeman and Stephanie Taylor will be tackling the topic of web 2.0 at the conference so why not come along! There are still a few places left if you get your booking form in asap…

Sarah

Update – I’ve also added an option to subscribe to this blog by email.  The link is on the right hand side of this blog under Subscribe.

Marketing, Music and the MLA

The conference programme has been updated with more details about our speakers.  Our seminar sessions on Tuesday will include ‘Brand new : an inspirational approach to marketing your library service’ by Antony Brewerton and ‘Music and Interlending’ by Liz Hart (IAML).  On Wednesday our main speaker is David Potts who is project manager for libraries at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Council).

Head over to the wiki for the updated Conference Programme and for more information on our Speakers and please feel free to add comments or ask questions here or on the wiki.

Sarah

Speakers

Now that the conference programme has been confirmed you should see more detailed topics appearing on the Conference Programme page and speaker biographies appearing on the Speakers page.

Updated so far – Genevieve Clavel’s session on ‘Digital Resource Sharing Across National Libraries and Beyond: The European Library and Europeana’ and Graham Titley’s sessions on ‘The cost of an ILL’ and ‘Managing and Marketing your ILL’.

To keep track of updates to the Conference Programme either choose email updates on the wiki or subscribe to the RSS feed for this page.

And feel free to leave a comment or send us some feedback!

Sarah

Welcome to the Interlend blog!

Welcome!

On this blog you will find news and updates about this year’s FIL Conference.

Interlend 2008′s theme is Managing the Gateway – redefining interlending for the 21st century. We have a great selection of speakers coming along to share their visions and ideas and a beautiful venue in the Scottish borders to inspire us.

All the information is on the conference wiki and updates will be posted here as they happen. The wiki is open to edits and comments so please add your comments there or here and we’ll be happy to hear from you.

And finally… closing date for bookings is 12th May so if you haven’t registered yet go to the online booking form and join the party!

Sarah