Wednesday 14 August

Opening Plenary Session (9.30-10.30)

Lena Olsson, Chair of the IFLA Section on Government Libraries, Linda Wishart, Chair of the UK Committee of Departmental Librarians

Papers and library visits (11.00 –12.30) 

Outside the box - broadening horizons
What next and how do I get there?  Skills for the future
Speaker: Alison Raisin, Venue: Department of Trade and Industry

or

Cataloguing and indexing - an essential skill reborn
Controlled vocabularies, metadata and mappings in the UK public sector
Speaker: Stella Dextre Clarke, Venue: Department of Culture, Media and Sport

Lunch ( 12.30 – 1.30)

Papers and library visits (1.30–3.00)

Outside the box - broadening horizons
The role of evidence in successful policymaking - a new challenge for all
Speaker: Sharon Jones, Venue: Cabinet Office Centre for Management and Policy Studies

or

Cataloguing and indexing - an essential skill reborn
Workshop on cataloguing government publications
Speaker: Lynda Cooper, Venue: Home Office

Papers and library visits (3.30–5.00)

Outside the box - broadening horizons
Government library & information services in Portugal: the need to broaden horizons
Speaker: António José de Pina Falcão, Venue: Department of Health

or

Cataloguing and indexing - an essential skill reborn
The art of information governance
Speaker: Pekka Kuittinen, Venue: Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Reception at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (5.30-7.30)

Papers and library visits (9.00–10.30)  

IT and electronic delivery
Information support for the strategic projects of government - the virtual library
Speaker: Maija Jussilainen, Venue: Department for Work and Pensions

or

Management - shifting up a gear
The knowledge strategy and the Government Library and Information Service
Speaker: Irja Peltonnen, Venue: Department for International Development

Papers and library visits (11.00–12.30)   

IT and electronic delivery
Librarian skills, user education and support
Speakers: Nancy Bolt and Gladysann Wells, Venue: Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

or

Management - shifting up a gear
The tail wags the dog: Innovation centre, Parliamentary Archive
Speaker: Christine Wellems, Venue: Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions

12.30 – 1.30              Lunch

Papers and library visits (1.30–3.00)

IT and electronic delivery
Information overload: how the UK Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions tackled the issues and were we successful?
Speaker: Clare Gibson , Venue: Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions

or

Management - shifting up a gear
Co-operation and further education in German governmental and administrative authority libraries
Speaker: Maria Göckeritz, Venue: Department for Education and Skills

Concluding plenary session (3.30-5.00)   

Conference dinner (7.00–9.30)

A river boat dinner cruise down the Thames through the heart of London