International Ticer Summer School to be held in Tilburg, the Netherlands, August 21-24, 2012

International Ticer Summer School to be held in Tilburg, the Netherlands, August 21-24, 2012

Ticer has the pleasure of announcing that the 15th edition of its International Summer School on Digital Libraries will be held from August 21 to 24, 2012 in Tilburg, The Netherlands.

Four central themes

As is tradition with the Summer School, different modules will trace developments of 4 central themes:

    Module 1: Tuesday, August 21: Library Strategy in the 21st Century – From Vision to

Execution

    Module 2: Wednesday, August 22: Libraries Leveraging the Cloud: Technological Developments

    Module 3: Thursday, August 23: Redefining Research Support

    Module 4: Friday, August 24: Connecting Students, Faculty and Resources

Top speakers

International lecturers of the Summer School are all renowned experts in their field. Among our speakers will be:

   David Lankes, Professor and the Dean’s Scholar on New Librarianship at

SyracuseUniversity’s School of Information Studies, USA

   Norbert Lossau, Director of the Goettingen State and University

Library, Germany

   Herbert van der Sompel, team leader of the Digital Library Research and

Prototyping Team at the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

   Cameron Neylon, Senior Scientist at Science and Technology Facilities

Council, Oxford, United Kingdom

   Sarah Houghton, Acting Director for the San Rafael Public Library,

California, USA

Ticer’s course director will be Mr. Lorcan Demsey, Vice President OCLC Research and Chief Strategist.

Recommended by

Ticer Summer School 2012 is recommended by LIBER, JISC, SURF, UKB, DEFF (Denmark’s Electronic Research Library), CBU/KUB (the conference of university libraries in Switzerland), Helsinki University Library, and NFF (Norwegian Association of Special Libraries).

NEW! Directors’ Course: Library Leadership in the 21st Century

New in the 2012 edition of the Summer School is an exclusive three day Library Directors’ Course prior to the Summer School. The course is a part of a more extensive Leadership Program that will start in June 2012 and will be continued after the course. The group size of this program will be limited to 16 people.

The Leadership Program is organized in cooperation with LIBER, the Association of European Research Libraries.

COURSE FACT SHEET

Fee and registration

Both Summer School and Directors’ Course are now open for registration.

Please register using our online registration form:

http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/research/institutes-and-research-groups/ticer/2012/registrationform/

per module is € 845 + VAT. You can attend one or more modules. We offer an early bird discount of € 150 + VAT for registrations made before May 1, 2012. A discount is also offered when booking 2 or more modules. The fee for the Library Directors’ Course (3 days) is € 3,100 + VAT with a 10% discount for LIBER members.

More information

The complete program, speakers and other relevant information are available on the Ticer Summer School website:

http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/research/institutes-and-research-groups/ticer/2012/program.html

For more information, please contact course manager Ms. Mariette van Looij, by phone +31-13-466 21 46 or email ticer@uvt.nl. Ticer on Twitter @Ticer2012

Ticer (Tilburg Innovation Centre for Electronic Resources) is a business unit of Library and IT Services, Tilburg University, the Netherlands.

Ticer’s aim is to make Tilburg University expertise on digital libraries and IT infrastructure available to parties outside the university via consultancy, and to facilitate the (international) exchange of digital library expertise via high quality courses and seminars. The International Summer School on Digital Libraries is an annual course organized since 1996.