Successfull course "Change: Making it Happen in your Library" again in August 2004

["Esther Bruls" <esther.bruls@uvt.nl>]

For the fifth time now, Ticer organizes the succesfull course "Change:
Making it Happen in your Library". The course aims to identify new
opportunities for libraries, to support librarians in developing a vision,
and to provide librarians with tools to initiate a change in their own
organisation.

Where and when
Tilburg University, the Netherlands, Tuesday evening 17 up to and
including Friday 20 August 2004.

Target group
Library managers/directors and other senior managers from academic and
research libraries involved with strategic change.

Subjects
The changing outside world, library vision, new ways of supporting
research and learning, strategic planning, models and frameworks for
change management, managing the process of change, organisational change,
managing resistance, communication, human resource aspects of change,
human resource management, and improvement programmes.

Course director
Jan Wilkinson, University Librarian and Keeper of the Brotherton
Collection at the University of Leeds, UK, has wide experience of a
variety of academic libraries, and has spent fifteen years as a senior
manager. In her time at Leeds, she has been responsible for the leadership
and development of the University Library, with a particular emphasis on
human resource management and the direction of organisational change.

Programme

Tuesday, 17 August 2004
* Library Tour (optional)
* Welcome dinner

Wednesday, 18 August 2004
*Welcome and Introduction to the Course (Jan Wilkinson, University
 Librarian and Keeper of the Brotherton Collection, University of Leeds, 
 UK)
*The Context for Change (Prof. Derek Law, Librarian and Head of
 Information Resources Directorate, University of Strathclyde, UK)
*What if your Imagination Became Reality? (Eugenie Prime, Former
 Manager Corporate libraries, Hewlett Packard Company, USA)
*Introduction to Course Case Study (Jan Wilkinson, University
 Librarian and Keeper of the Brotherton Collection, University of Leeds, 
 UK)
*Frameworks for the Management of Strategic Change (Lucy Jeynes,
 Director, Larch Consulting Ltd, UK)
* Joint dinner

Thursday, 19 August 2004
* Course Case Study - Group Work
* Key Roles in the Change Process (Lucy Jeynes, Director, Larch
  Consulting Ltd, UK)
* Real-life case study: Lund University Libraries (Tore Torngren,
  Assistant Director of Libraries, Lund University Libraries, SWE)
* Communications in Change Management (Lucy Jeynes, Director, Larch
  Consulting Ltd, UK)
* Course Case Study - Group Work
* Real-life case study: European University Institute and Tilburg
  University (Hans Geleijnse, Chief Information Officer, Director IT 
  Services and Librarian, Tilburg University, NL)
* Joint dinner

Friday, 20 August 2004
* Real-life case study: University of Sussex Library: a suitable case
  for treatment (Deborah Shorley, Librarian, University of Sussex, UK)
* Real-life case study: Telematics Institute Documentation Information
  Centre (Olga Steen, Manager Information Centre, Telematics Institute,
  NL)
* Course case study - group work
* People and Change (Lucy Jeynes, Director, Larch Consulting Ltd, UK)
* Course Case study - Group Work
* Course Conclusions, Case Study Lessons, and Individual Learning
  Plans (Jan Wilkinson, University Librarian and Keeper of the Brotherton
  Collection, University of Leeds, UK)

Website http://www.ticer.nl/04change/.

Organisation
The courses are organised by Ticer B.V., known from the International
Summer School on the Digital Library, in cooperation with Tilburg
University in the Netherlands, the Los Alamos National Laboratory Research
Library in the USA, the CERN Scientific Information Service in
Switzerland, Information and in the Netherlands/UK, the Netherlands
Association for Library, Information, and Knowledge Professionals (NVB),
Heriot-Watt University in the UK, and University of Leeds in the UK.

Contact

Ticer B.V.
Ms Anja Huijben and Ms Esther Bruls
P.O. Box 4191
5004 JD Tilburg
The Netherlands
T. +31 - 13 - 466 8310
F. +31 - 13 - 466 8383
E. ticer@uvt.nl
URL http://www.ticer.nl/