Ticer

Tilburg Innovation Centre for Electronic Resources

Program Ticer Summer School 2012


This year's Summer School consists of four modules and an exclusive course for library directors. Module 1 can be followed independently or as part of the directors' course.

Our course director is Mr. Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President, OCLC Research and Chief Strategist

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Module 1: Library Strategy in the 21st Century: From Vision to Execution


  1. New Librarianship and the Library as Platform
    R. David Lankes
    Professor and Dean’s Scholar for New Librarianship at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies, USA

  2. Libraries and the reform of scholarly communication
    Norbert Lossau
    Director of Göttingen State and University Library; Honoray Professor at Humboldt University, Berlin, School of Library and Information Science, Germany

  3. How 'bout us? Libraries and research data
    Marc van den Berg
    Director Library and IT services, Tilburg University, the Netherlands

  4. Boundless Opportunity: the strategic impact of cloud based services
    Rachel L. Frick
    Director Digital Library Federation Program, Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), USA

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Module 2: Libraries Leveraging the Cloud: Technological Developments


  1. On OCLC WorldShare
    Jola Prinsen
    Project Manager Library and IT Services, Tilburg University, the Netherlands

  2. Library services in a new perspective: Unifying Resource Management with Ex Libris’ Alma
    Johan Rademakers
    Head LIBIS, Leuven University, Belgium

  3. Strategic use of library data
    Jakob Voss
    Library and Information Developer and Wiki Researcher at the Head Office of the Common Library Network (VZG/GBV), Germany

  4. ResourceSync: towards a web-based approach for resource synchronization
    Herbert Van de Sompel
    Team Leader of the Digital Library Research and Prototyping Team at the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Module 3: Redefining Research Support


  1. Collaborative science
    Cameron Neylon
    Senior Scientist at Science and Technology Facilities Council, Oxford, United Kingdom

  2. Research assessments
    Wouter Gerritsma
    Trainer at Vogin, GO, Media Academie, Subject Librarian at Wageningen UR Library, the Netherlands

  3. Research data support opportunities
    David Shotton
    Reader in Image Bioinformatics at University of Oxford, United Kingdom

  4. New roles for the subject / liaison librarians
    Mary Auckland
    Independent consultant and trainer, Consultant and former Committee member at JISC, United Kingdom

Friday, August 24, 2012

Module 4: Connecting Students, Faculty and Resources


  1. Open Educational Resources: Why do we give our content away?
    Willem van Valkenburg
    Director of Delft University of Technology OpenCourseWare, the Netherlands

  2. From a vision on learning and teaching towards an integrated learning-environment
    Ellen Simons
    Deputy Director Learning and Innovation Centre / Xplora, Avans University of Applied Sciences Breda, the Netherlands

  3. Linking information literacy to learning and problem solving
    Thomas Vibjerg Hansen
    Functional Manager of Student Support, Aalborg University Library, Denmark

  4. Digital Content and Library Ethics
    Sarah Houghton
    Librarian in Black and Director of the San Rafael Public Library, California, USA

Modules are one day each. You can attend one or more modules.
A limited number of 60 places is available per module.

Please note that session titles are still subject to change