Rare Books and Special Collections Group

Rare Books and Special Collections Group Annual conference

2012 Conference: Speaking Truth to Power: making special collections work in times of recession

Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford
12 - 14 September 2012

As hard times hit, special collections are going to have to fight for attention to ensure their survival. How do they justify their retention and help demonstrate their worth to their owners? This year’s conference is based around three themes: Does the world need special collections? What can special collections do for an organisation? What can special collections contribute to communities? Drawing together speakers from a variety of sectors, it is aimed primarily at senior managers but would be interesting and useful to anyone in the profession who holds, or may hold in the future, managerial positions.

Speakers

Alison Cullingford, Special Collections Librarian, University of Bradford - RLUK Unique and Distinctive Project

Judy Faraday, Partnership Archivist, John Lewis - Doing the Business: the Memorystore and its legacy

Neil MacInnes, Head of Libraries, Information and Archives, Manchester City Library - Manchester's Treasures: Special Collections in the 21st Century

Mark Nicholls, Fellow Librarian, St John's College, Cambridge - MLA Designation & HLF Funding

Richard Ovenden, Deputy Librarian, Bodleian Library - Keynote Speaker

Christopher Parkin, Lead Education Officer, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford - Renaissance Books: Schools Outreach at the Museum of the History of Science

Sean Rainey, Development Director, Magdalen College, Oxford - Fundraising for and with Special Collections

Oliver Urquhart-Irvine, Head of British Library-Qatar Foundation Partnership - Advocacy at the British Library

Anne Welsh, Lecturer in Library & Information Studies, UCL - What do Academic Want?

Speaker to be Confirmed - The Public Library perspective