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Sleeping into the Future - a Library Perspective

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Event
  • Session
  • Monday, 08 April 2019
  • 11:8 - 11:8
  • Duration: 24 mins
  • Publication date: 17 Apr 2019
  • Location: Ludlow Room, Telford International Centre
  • Part of event UKSG Conference 2019

About the session

Plenary Session 1 - Sleepwalkig Toward the Future 

Chair: Helle Lauridsen, Lyngsoe Systems

This paper will explore the changing research library environment from the perspective of a library director. Set against the backdrop of the ‘wicked problem’ of rapid change in the scholarly communications landscape and the idea of the open library, the presentation will draw on case studies from Cambridge to share honest reflections on current leadership challenges. The paper will consider the mission and position of the library in the academy, and strategies to avoid ‘sleepwalking into the future’. 

Keywords:
  • UKSG
  • consultants
  • content providers
  • intermediaries
  • librarians
  • publishers
  • research library

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Speaker

  • Dr Jessica Gardner

    Dr Jessica Gardner

    Dr Jessica Gardner is the UniversityLibrarian and Director of LibraryServices at the University ofCambridge. She joined Cambridgein April 2017, moving from the roleof Director of Library Services atthe University of Bristol. Between2001 and 2013, Jessica workedat the University of Exeter, as theHead of Heritage Collections andlater as Head of Library and CultureServices. She started her library career at the University of Leeds,where she worked and studied for ten years. She completed her PhDin the field of twentieth-century book history in 2001, and specialisedin her early to mid-career in literary archives and special collections.Jessica is a member of the Research Libraries UK (RLUK) Board, ofwhich she will become Vice-Chair in April.
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