Abstract
Jisc, SAGE and Springer Nature kindly sponsored attendance at the conference for six early career professionals and students. The lucky winners of these places were students Susan Hill (Aberystwyth University), Amy Rippon (City University London) and Beth Tapster (University of Sheffield). The early career professionals were Jennifer Bayjoo (Leeds Beckett University), Ruth MacMullen (York St John University) and Sam Nesbit (University of Sussex). They are pictured with their sponsorship goodie bags above, between Insights co-editors, Lorraine Estelle and Steve Sharp: from left to right: Sam, Jennifer, Beth, Amy, Ruth and Susan.
Highlights
‘It really was a revelation, not least that Dream Circus – still can’t get over the size of the venue, the sparkly elephant dangling above Kate Price’
Susan: Ann Rossiter, the Executive Director of SCONUL, gave us a rousing speech, a snapshot of the current state of ‘libraryland’ as she so dubbed our sector, declaring that, ‘Libraries are at crunch point’ and urging publishers to adjust their business models and improve the quality of service that they provide
Beth: The very human issues involved in scholarly communications and academia were brought to the fore by Donna Lanclos
Summary
SAGE and Springer Nature kindly sponsored attendance at the conference for six early career professionals and students. Susan summed it all up when she said, ‘I would say that the conference was a real eye-opener for me, showing how libraries and publishers interact, taking me out of the cocoon of distance learning and my own work place It really was a revelation, not least that Dream Circus – still can’t get over the size of the venue, the sparkly elephant dangling above Kate Price, and the marvellous entertainment put on for delegates. Much of what I learnt at UKSG brought home to me that many of the key issues that have to be dealt with as we seek to transition to a more open system of scholarly communications relate directly to people’s different motivations, identities and values These are challenging things to address since, as Donna so convincingly pointed out, ‘people are messy’. I enjoyed having the opportunity to meet with exhibition vendors and find out more about what services they provided and how their work related to my role
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