'Interlend 101 - Back to Basics'
The annual Interlend Conference recently took place in Cardiff at The Maldron Hotel. The event was attended by interlending practitioners from all over the UK and by the levels of noise alone (who knew librarians could be so chatty?!)
As Chair of the organising group, and as the conference was in my home town, I felt a certain amount of pressure in delivering a great conference. The presentations seem to do down a treat, particularly Prof Charles Oppenheim's who revealed that this was to be his last ever professional engagement. He also, did a great job in getting us all to quote Cliff Richards songs throughout the rest of the conference!
All the presentations are now up on the
FIL website, feel free to have a browse!
In your conference packs, was a flyer which detailed some benchmarking work that FIL is looking to do, the online survey is now open and we would appreciate it if you could all take the time in filling it in so we can understand the important issues for you as our members in the hope that we can provide some useful information to you and your organisations.
At the AGM, FIL announced that we are supporting a FIL member to attend the
ILDS Conference, which is being held in Peking University, Beijing in October. This is a great opportunity to meet with ILL practitioners all around the world and to hear about the initiatives that other countries are embracing. Mark Kluzek (FIL Committee Member) will also be in attendance at the conference so there will be a familiar face in amongst the international crowd! Details on how to apply for this fantastic opportunity are on the
FIL website.
If Beijing is not your thing, then how about FIL@ British Library, St Pancras is coming up on November 15th, 2013. This will be a half day event (afternoon) which will include a tour of St Pancras, and the bookings for that will go up shortly.
Coming soon, our members only area on the
FIL website. Information will shortly be released as to how you can sign up for this new feature.
Please note that that
FIL@jiscmail list has been renamed to
FORUMFORINTERLENDING@jiscmail.ac.uk - please update your contacts where appropriate.
This week I've been tweeting as
+Voices for the Library - about the work I do at Cardiff Met, and my FIL Committee work - so please have a read & give them a follow!
Now the work starts to plan the 2014 conference - Edinburgh here we come! If you have any ideas, or suggestions then the FIL committee would love to hear from you!
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