Question Time – chaired by Professor Vincent Gillespie, JRR Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language, University of Oxford Q: How can students currently in LIS and i-school programmes ensure that they are positioning themselves to be librarians of the future? Peter Murray-Rust: You are the librarian of the future, and so are your colleagues, … Read more
Perspective: commercial sector – Santiago de la Mora (Google) Google’s mission is to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. It sounds grandiose, but that is the underlying theme of our products. We started with the internet because the content was already online. The big challenge is bringing offline content online … Read more
After a ten-minute delay, Vincent Gillespie welcomed the fashionably late delegates to the afternoon’s conference, What is the library of the future? Not only are there attendees present at the Martin Wood Lecture Theatre in Oxford, but also in Second Life; and coverage of the day is available via this blog and Twitter. He handed … Read more
Dr Malcolm Read, executive secretary, JISC In his opening talk this morning, Sir Ron Cooke mentioned some political challenges we’re likely to face in a few years time. Our main activity is and remains the funding of services and the growing amount of work JISC collections does. During the coming year we’ll be concentrating on … Read more
Angela Beesley, vice-president community relations and co-founder, Wikia; chair of Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board A wiki is a website that you can edit – a simple definition. They’re not new, but although they’ve only reached consciousness in the past couple of years, they first went online in 1995. It’s a quick way to collaborate with … Read more