2013 Forum Program

“What it means to be in the cloud”

University of Melbourne, Melbourne

Thursday 31 October 2013, 9am – 4:30pm

Time Session
8:15am Registrations Open
9:00am Opening address
Mr Geoff Strempel, Chair, Libraries Australia Advisory Committee
9:10am Housekeeping
Morning Chair, Ms Deirdre Kiorgaard, Director, Collaborative Services, National Library of Australia
9:15am Adding value through curation and community
Ms Lucie Burgess, Head of Content Strategy, British Library 
10:00am Education in the cloud and what it means for university libraries
Mr Philip Kent, University Librarian, University of Melbourne 
10:45am Morning Tea
11:15am VeRSI and the cloud
Dr Ann Borda, Executive Director VeRSI and Chief Executive Officer VPAC 
11:40am The cloud is for all libraries
Mrs Wilma Kurvnik, College Head of Libraries, Wesley College Melbourne 
11:55am OCLC cloud services and their relationship to Libraries Australia
Mr Chris Thewlis, Regional Manager, OCLC Australasia 
12:20pm Housekeeping
Afternoon Chair, Ms Monika Szunejko, Director, Database Services, National Library of Australia
12:30pm Lunch
1:25pm Split interactive sessions – move to session venues
1:30pm Interactive Q and A sessions:
Interlibrary loan and document delivery
Room tba
Cataloguing and CBS developments
Room tba
The Trove API: Data in the cloud
Room tba
2:30pm Afternoon Tea
3.15pm Libraries Australia: a year in review
Dr Marie-Louise Ayres, Assistant Director-General, Resource Sharing, National Library of Australia
3:45pm Introduction to service changes
Ms Nikki Darby, Manager, Libraries Australia Customer Services, National Library of Australia
4:00pm Questions with and without notice
Dr Marie-Louise Ayres and the Libraries Australia team
4:15pm Evaluations/Closing address
4:30pm Forum Close