On Monday 17th August 1998 at 12:45-3:00pm MCB University Press and Library Link hosted the above titled workshop at the IFLA '98 conference in Amsterdam. If you wish to discover more about the workshop and the discussions surrounding it and would like to comment on the issues raised please click here.

Links to the workshop slides:

Publisher Challenges
Librarian Challenges: An Overview
Librarian Challenges: Budgeting & Information Usage
Librarian Challenges: Cataloguing & Linking
Librarian Challenges: The Changing Library
Issues Raised on the Web: An Overview
Issues Raised: Value added role for future librarians (i)
Issues Raised: Value added role for future librarians (ii)
Issues Raised: Information Technology in developing countries
Issues Raised: The Future for Electronic Journals (i)
Issues Raised: The Future for Electronic Journals (ii)
What Next?

Publisher Challenges

• Embracing new technologies
• Transition from print to electronic
• Re-engineering the supply chain
• Maintain existing revenue streams and exploring new ones
• Changing relationships with librarians and their institutions:
  want partnerships, relationship marketing, more interaction

Librarian Challenges: An Overview

• Budgeting & Information Usage
• Cataloguing & Linking
• The Changing Library

Librarian Challenges: Budgeting & Information Usage

• Reduction in budgets
• Reduction in staff levels
• Increasing number of students and faculty to service
• Ownership versus access
• challenges of new technology
• Distribution environment
• Economics - new models

Librarian Challenges: Cataloguing & Linking

• Cataloguing & Classification - linking, data structures and meta-data
• Purchase - purchasing or licensing, package plans, access restrictions
• Archiving

Librarian Challenges: The Changing Library

• Selection process - leasing, creating/publishing, managing relationships
• Maintenance of e-products - organize knowledge and how to use it, teach, train, use
• Increase in ILL
• Library as gateway to information

Issues Raised on the Web: An Overview

• The value added role for future Librarians and Information Professionals
• Information technology in developing countries
• The Future of electronic Journals

Issues Raised on the Web: Value added role for future librarians (i)

• Facilitating research - becoming experts for 'young' faculty and doctoral students on how to write and get published
• Information Broker or Cybrarian? - the possibility of librarians working from home and engaging in projects for individuals
• The scope of the virtual library?

Issues Raised on the Web: Value added role for future librarians (ii)

• Changed University system - mass producers of education with huge numbers of students
• Changed academic reward and tenure system - journal to electronically published piece of research
• Electronic peer review

Issues Raised on the Web: Information Technology in developing countries

• The Information technology Gap: Harvard is a safer bet than Hyderabad!
• Poor connectivity means that research institutions based in less developed countries are becoming second rate
• What are the issues for less developed nations - and how can we help them?

Issues Raised: The Future for Electronic Journals (i)

• Holding Electronic Data - how long can electronic data be held?
  The issues surrounding emulation Vs migration?
• The Changing Role of the Publisher and Librarian - will new industries arise to act as enabling intermediaries?
• National Licensing of electronic resources - academic and publisher perceptions

Issues Raised: The Future for Electronic Journals (ii)

• Marginalisation of mainstream journals
• Online course material
• Archiving of dynamic publications
• The growth of freely available electronic journals
• Subscriptions for single use

What Next?

• The value added role for future librarians and Information Professionals
• Information technology in developing countries
• The Future of electronic Journals

If you wish to comment on any of the matters raised in the workshop please visit the Library Link Discussion Area where you can discuss the issues with other like-minded individuals.