AHIS (UK & Ireland) Conference 2000

Genetically Modified Libraries: New Breed or Hybrid?

13th April 2000 at Edinburgh Zoo

A “hybrid” according to the Concise Oxford Dictionary is the “offspring of two animals or plants of different species or varieties”. This conference aims primarily to assist in the problems relating to the merging of information offspring from electronic and paper sources. In addition, well-known speakers will introduce other subjects of interest such as evidence-based medicine, electronic copyright and the new veterinary information project (ASVIN).

There will be good opportunities for discussion with your colleagues and the speakers and even a welfare discussion opportunity when you can see the penguin parade. Edinburgh Zoo won the prestigious 1999 UFAW Zoo Animal Welfare Innovation Award for its penguin cone feeder using a traffic cone to deliver fish to the penguins so that they feed in a natural underwater situation.

PROGRAMME
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10.00	Coffee and registration
10.30	Ian Mowat, University of Edinburgh. Keynote address on hybrid libraries. An overview of hybrid libraries and scientific journals in the future.
11.10	Dr Martin Sullivan, Glasgow University Veterinary School. Hybrid libraries: a user's point of view. Discussion of some problems using experience gained with the newly formed information services group at the University, and the team formed to promote the Veterinary School particularly from an Information Technology point of view, some problems from a user's viewpoint.
11.50	Andrew Charlesworth, University of Hull Law School. Electronic copyright and staying legal. Current issues in electronic copyright and the problems it poses for users and widespread sites.
12.30	AHIS (UK & Ireland) AGM.
12.45	Lunch & Penguin parade
14.30	Andrew Booth, Sheffield University. Evidence-based medicine. Evidence-based medicine, a relatively new term in veterinary medicine, is the use of current best practice in making decisions about the care of individual patients. ScHARR was formed in 1994 to act as a focus for health services research/health technology assessment within the University.
15.10	Ruth Jenkins, Birmingham University. BUILDER: A hybrid library model. This working model of a hybrid library will be discussed together with the integration of access to both printed and electronic information sources both local and remote using a web-based interface.
15.50	Bryn Davies (ASVIN). ASVIN: Assessing veterinary information needs. The new collaborative project ASVIN began in November 1999 and is based at the Royal Veterinary College. The goal of this project is to improve access to information used to support veterinary research by encouraging cross collection searching, by developing common collection strategies, and particularly by investigating the ways that electronic access to catalogues and journals can improve services to users.
16.30	Questions & Close

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