Castletroy Park Hotel, Limerick

3 and 4 November 2004

3 November 2004 10:00 – 10:45 Registration

Setting the scene 10:45 – 11:00 Welcome

Helen Fallon, Deputy Librarian NUI Maynooth

ANLTC Chairperson

11:00 – 12:00 Keynote address: Future roles for the library in the information

landscape of the 21st century

Dr Clifford Lynch, Director, Coalition for Networked Information, USA

12:00 – 13:00 The individual learner and the workplace: future skills and competencies in industry in Ireland

Prof Eamonn Murphy, and Prof John O’Donoghue,

University of Limerick

13:00 – 13:15 Questions and Answers

13:15 – 14:15 Lunch

The individual 14:15 – 15:00 Core skills: employer needs in the learning organisation

and the workplace Marie Reddan, Librarian, NUI Galway

15:00 – 15:45 Succession planning

Pat Noon, University Librarian, Coventry University

15:45 – 16:00 Tea /coffee

16:00 – 16:40 Approaches to career development for Library Assistants

Elaine Bean, Library Assistant, NUI Maynooth

Judy Carmody, Senior Library Assistant, University of Limerick

16:40 – 17:15 The Frye Leadership Institute

Gobnait O’Riordan, Acting Director Library & Information Services, University of Limerick

17:15 – 17:30 Questions and Answers

20:00 Conference Dinner, preceded by Reception

4 November 2004

Training, education 09:30 – 10:15 Trends in accredited course provision in Ireland and globally

and development: Prof Mary Burke, Department of Library and Information Studies

responses University College Dublin

10:15 – 11:00 CPD: workplace learning and cooperative approaches

Pauline Corrigan, Deputy Librarian, University College Dublin

11:00 – 11:15 tea/coffee

11:15 – 12:00 CPD and performance management

Angela O’Donovan, Occupational Psychologist

12:00 – 12:15 Questions and answers

12:15 – 13:30 Lunch

Self-development 13:30 – 15:00 New Approaches to professional development: Action research

Dr Jean McNiff

15:30 – 15:45 Closing remarks