EBSLG - ABLD - APBSLG: 2007 Joint Conference & Joint meeting

Conference hosted by CBS Library.

An event for members of ABLD (Academic Business Library Directors ), APBSLG (Asia Pacific Business School Librarians’ Group) and EBSLG (European Business Schools Librarians’ Group).

Theme: Strategy, Focus, Services. Business Libraries in a Competitive and Changing Environment.

Business libraries are faced with many challenges from within and outside their parent organizations. Within the organization, students, faculty and administrators have different attitudes and requirements to libraries and their services. Outside the organization, competitors in the field of information e.g. Google and commercial publishers are a constant challenge to the traditional role of business libraries.

Keynote Speaker: Liselotte Lyngsø, Future Navigator: "How Original! Attracting the business library users of tomorrow"

Speakers:

Christine Reid, University of Strathclyde Graduate School of Business: "Overview of Scenario Planning Concepts and Process"

Chris Flegg, Melbourne Business School: "Environmental Scan of the Threats from the Real World"

Tomalee Doan, Purdue University, and Mary Lee Kennedy, Harvard Business School: "Innovation, Creativity and Meaning: Leading in the Information Age"

Michael Cotta-Schønberg, Copenhagen University Library: "Libraries in Cyberspace: strategy lessons from imagined futures"

More Information

Contact: Library Director René Steffensen (rs.lib@cbs.dk) and Conference Planner Marie Wildt (mw.lib@cbs.dk)