About The Conference

This conference takes as its basic premise: 'a library service and its future are only as assured as the people offering that service'. The conference will examine the challenges and opportunities faced by academic library personnel in an ever faster moving and constantly changing academic and technological working environment. The consolidation, growth, and even survival of libraries within and without our university communities and beyond will depend on decisions being made now about what a future physical/virtual library may look like. More importantly in the context of this conference, how will integration and interdependency with external agencies dictate our collective futures? And, what kind of staff will be needed to offer the services our communities will find indispensable and fundamental for their teaching and research? In other words, our themes of disussion will move conceptually through:

• General pressures on us in the academic world;
• How we organise internally to respond to those pressures;
• How we sustain our response;
• How we get the right staff to do all this.

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Details: http://www.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/conference/aldp2007/info/index.htm