Abstract
UKSG offered four free places for students to attend the 2012 Conference, made possible with generous support from Elsevier, whose contribution is very much appreciated. Those eligible to apply were students enrolled on Library & Information and Publishing degree courses, and the successful applicants were (Ieft to right as photographed against the River Clyde): Stuart Lawson (University of Brighton), Jennifer Lovatt (Oxford Brookes University), Gopal Dutta (University of Sheffield) and Lydia Lantzsch (Oxford Brookes University). The four have allowed us to take a peek at the diaries they kept during the conference. The extracts below give us a flavour of the event including the plenary and breakout sessions, the debates and the stamina of those who kept the dancing going!
Highlights
UKSG offered four free places for students to attend the 2012 Conference, made possible with generous support from Elsevier, whose contribution is very much appreciated. Those eligible to apply were students enrolled on Library & Information and Publishing degree courses, and the successful applicants were (Ieft to right as photographed against the River Clyde): Stuart Lawson (University of Brighton), Jennifer Lovatt (Oxford Brookes University), Gopal Dutta (University of Sheffield) and Lydia Lantzsch (Oxford Brookes University)
Gopal Dutta: The first thing that struck me about UKSG was the scale: as Tony Kidd explained in his opening address, this was the largest conference on record
Stuart Lawson: Martin Paul Eve of the University of Sussex followed with a great talk on open access (OA) and how librarians can organize to restructure academic publishing and eliminate the forprofit element
Summary
UKSG offered four free places for students to attend the 2012 Conference, made possible with generous support from Elsevier, whose contribution is very much appreciated. Stephen was telling me things that I felt I already knew, but it was presented in such an engaging way that it made me think about the value I’ve added to people’s experiences in the libraries I’ve worked in and how I might make this value count for more in the future.
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