DIS UNC 2nd Librarianship Summer School 15-28 May 2011

(in association with UNC Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Studies)

DIS (the Department of Information Studies) is proud to announce its second annual summer school programme on librarianship in collaboration with UNC SILS.

The course is organised by Andy Dawson and Vanda Broughton of DIS working collaboratively with Barbara Moran of UNC SILS, and with teaching input from senior staff of DIS and senior UK professionals in the field.

Classroom sessions will be held in the Foster Court building at UCL in room G31, unless indicated otherwise (e.g. some sessions will be held in Winston House). All presentations, whether at UCL or on visits, will leave time for questions and interaction. The ambience will be informal but at the same time conducive to a serious learning experience.

The provisional programme for the Summerschool (subject confirmation) is as follows:


Sunday 15 May 4pm - Pre-school walking tour of Bloomsbury from Janet Poole House, followed by social gathering in the Marlborough Arms, Torrington Place


Monday 16 May
09.00 - 0930 Welcome coffee and pastries in G31
09.30 - 10.00 Formal welcome and introduction to the summerschool from Andy Dawson and Claire Warwick, Acting Head of DIS
10.00 - 11.00 HUXLEY BUILDING - ID card issuing at Access Systems and coffee break

11.00 - 12.30 LIS sectors in the UK (Vanda Broughton)

12.30 - 13.30 lunch break
13.30 - orientation tour of Winston House, followed by talk for students taking the summerschool for credit (Stephanie Haas)
17.30 - 19.00 Welcome reception at UCL (Foster Court, Arts & Humanities Staff Common Room)

Tuesday 17 May
Day visit to Oxford
0700 assemble at Baker Street stop to board Oxford Tube coach service (coach tickets will be handed out on MONDAY, do not forget them!)

0915 (approx) arrive at Oxford Bus Station for coffee, where Andy Dawson and Anthony Watkinson will collect the group.

09.45- 10.30 Tour of Oxford University Press Museum (Martin Maw)
10.30 - 11.00 refreshments
11.00 - 12.30 Presentation on the work of OUP, the OED etc (Robert Faber, Claire Bebber)
12.30 - 14.00 Walk to the Turf Inn for lunch (Anthony Watkinson)
14.00 - 15.00 Guided tour of the Bodleian Library (Bill Clenell)
15.00 - 17.00 Visit to a College library and/or the Ashmolean Museum
17.00 - free to explore Oxford, return to London at leisure (coach tickets valid any time)

Wednesday 18 May
09.00 - 09.30 coffee & biscuits in G31
09.30 - 11.00 Libraries in the UK; history, development and resources (Tony Trowles, Mark Purcell)
Tony Trowles is Librarian at Westminster Abbey Library and previously worked at the Institute of Historical Research. He is an expert in early library history in the UK. Mark Purcell is Libraries Curator to the National Trust. He has published extensively on the history of libraries in early modern Britain. He read History at Oriel College Oxford and did his Library training at UCL.
11.00 - 3.30 British Library tours
BL guided tours will be in TWO groups of 10, commencing from the BL foyer at 11.30 and 14.00.
11.15 1st group depart (on foot) for visit to the British Library (Andy Dawson, Jo Ramsay/Rachel Garman)
12.30 - 13.30 break for lunch at the Turf Inn
13.30 2nd group depart (on foot) for visit to the British Library (Andy Dawson, Jo Ramsay/Rachel Garman)

16.30 return to Winston House for informal talk by Joseph Ripp, Librarian, National Portrait Gallery (and UNC Alumnus)

Thursday 19 May
9.30 - 10.00 coffee & biscuits in G31
10.00 - 12.00
Digitisation issues (Alastair Dunning, Claire Warwick)

Alastair Dunning is Digitization Programme Manager for JISC, the parent body for information systems infrastructure for UK higher education, and is responsible for projects funded under JISC's e-content programme.
Alastair's presentation
Claire Warwick is Acting Head of Department at DIS, Director of the new Digital Humanities Centre at UCL, and Vice-Dean for Research in the Arts & Humanities Faculty

12.00 - 13.00 lunch break

13.00 assemble at G31 to travel to Colindale National Newspaper Library (Andy Dawson)
14.00 - 15.30 tour of Colindale (Stewart Gillies)
15.30 - return or at leisure


Friday 20 May
09.00 - 09.30 coffee & biscuits in G31
09.30 Depart for RCS (Andy Dawson)
10.00 - 12.30 visit to Royal College of Surgeons (Tom Bishop).
The RCS is a learned society, it provides the community of UK surgeons with a modern medical library service, and has interesting historic collections. In the same building is the Hunterian Museum, containing the anatomical specimens of John Hunter.
 
12.30 Depart RCS for Imperial War Museum London and Library(Andy Dawson)
13.00 - 14.30 Lunchbreak and checkin at IWM
14.30 - 15.00 Introductory talk on the IWM collections and the Explore History Centre (Fergus Read)
15.00 - free to explore Imperial War Museum or at leisure.

Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 May at leisure.
 
Monday 23 May
0930 - 10.00 coffee & biscuits in G31
10.00 - 12.30 Changing roles in LIS: (Vanda Broughton, Chris Batt, Diana Edmonds)

The changing LIS curriculum

Chris Batt is an independent consultant with a strong interest in the development of public library services. Until 2007, he was chief executive of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council.

Diana Edmonds is Head of Libraries, Archives and Museums Service in the London Borough of Haringey. She has also had a career as an independent consultant, and as managing director of Instant Library, a library services company. Her leadership helped to bring Haringey libraries out of a period of decline and to establish a modern service culture.
Diana's presentation

12.30 - 13.30 lunch

13.30 assemble to travel to Ideastore (Andy Dawson)
Ideastore is a new concept in public library service provision, and displays a number of innovative features in library design and facilities. The Idea Store Whitechapel also won a number of awards for public architecture.
14.00 - 15.30 tour of IdeaStore (Mark George)
15.30 - return or at leisure

Tuesday 24 May
0930 Assemble at UCL DIS Student Common Room to walk to Wellcome Trust reception , 183 Euston Rd (Andy Dawson)
10.00 - 11.30 tour of Wellcome Trust (Danny Rees)
11.30 - free to explore Wellcome exhibitions/public collections, or at leisure
Afternoon at leisure

Wednesday 25 May
Day trip to Cambridge
08.00 assemble at Bloomsbury Theatre (UCL) to board minicoach for Cambridge (Andy Dawson)
10.00 - 12.00 Visit to Scott Polar Research Institute, library and museum. (Heather Lane)
12.00 - 12.30 brief guided walk through central Cambridge (Andy Dawson)
12.30 - 13.30 Visit to the Wren Library, Trinity College (Sandy Paul)
13.30 - 15.00 lunch at The Bath House
15.00 - 16.30 free to explore Cambridge
16.30 - assemble at Queen's Road/Silver Street to board minicoach for return to London
18.30 (approx) arrive in London at UCL

Thursday 26 May
09.00 - 09.30 coffee & biscuits in G31
09.30 - depart for TNA (Andy Dawson)
11.00 - 12.30 visit to TNA (The National Archive): 11.15 "New to Kew" talk followed by behind-the-scenes tour (Helen Pye-Smith/Gerry Toop)

12.30 - free to visit Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, or at leisure
 
Friday 27 May
09.00 - 09.30 coffee & biscuits in G31
09.30 depart for Kensington museums (Andy Dawson)
10.30 onwards: visit to Natural History Museum and other Kensington museums (V&A, Science Museum) as desired

Unfortunately due to staffing shortages there are currently no group visits permitted at either the NHM Library and Archives or the National Art Library (in the V&A). However there is free access to all the South Kensington museums, so you may visit any or all of them at leisure and return when you wish.

18.30 - Farewell dinner and end-of-school presentations at Spaghetti House, Goodge Street

 
We look forward to welcoming you to DIS and UCL for the Summer School in May!

University College London has recently been ranked as the fourth most important institution of higher education in the world and is known as "London’s global university". DIS is the top-ranked library school in the UK and is home to a number of important reserarch centres such as CIBER (Centre for Information Behaviour and Evaluation of Research), The Centre for Publishing , and the Centre for Digital Humanities.

UCL website has some original footage of the College immediately after World War II