The Forum for Interlending and Information Delivery's annual conference Interlend invites applications from the inter-lending community to speak and/or run breakout sessions and workshop sessions.
Interlend 2012 (25th-26th June)<http://www.forumforinterlending.org.uk/interlend-2012-save-date> is being held at the University of Worcester, close to their innovative, prestigious and by the time of the conference newly open Hive building. Formal booking for the conference will open in late March/Early April.
Background
As the preeminent UK inter-lending community conference Interlend annually attracts around 60-80 interlending staff from all levels of seniority, although it should be noted that a large proportion of our delegates are library assistants rather than professional grades. They come from all walks of library sphere, primarily UK based and with perhaps more from HE/FE and Public Libraries than any other sectors. Interlend is also renowned as offering our delegates practical tips and guidance, as well as broadening their understanding of the world of interlending; and as such we try and encourage all our speakers and breakout session facilitators to keep this in mind.
Theme
The theme and title of this year's conference is "Keeping Our Customers Satisfied: Interlending in a Changing World"
As such, sessions dealing with change and coping with service evolution along with the changing customer dynamic with it are especially welcomed, along with those focussed on more specialist sectors (such as the health libraries environment as it pertains to interlending). Breakout sessions are typically 45 minutes long and can be adapted to suit the speaker's needs
- either chalk and talk, or workshop based.
Pitching Session
All speakers present on the first day are anticipated to attend the pitching session; a chance for new delegates (~60% will be first time conference attendees) to have a 2 minute taster of what the parallel sessions coming up over the conference are about. This follows feedback last year that newcomers were unaware of which sessions they should attend. If you aren't likely to be around for this the conference Chair will pitch your session for you, so a brief to speak to would be very useful!
Costs
Speakers accepted by the at FIL events will have conference attendance costs, accommodation where required and all reasonable travelling expenses covered by the organisation.
Next steps
Proposals should include:
* No more than 300 words detailing the general content of the session, highlighting the particular applicability to the inter-lending and document supply community.
* A 50 word speaker biography.
* Full contact details (tel, email, twitter and fax as applicable).
* Date preference within the conference schedule, indicating if this is flexible or not.
Proposals should be emailed to: fil.committee@gmail.com
by April 17th 2012,
after which point they will be reviewed by the Committee. The Chair will be in touch with all applicants after this date to confirm or decline your proposal. Submission of a proposal does not guarantee acceptance, and the Committee's considered opinion on those to take up is final. We regret that due to time restrictions no correspondence over the decision will be entered into.
If you'd like to informally discuss possible themes, topics or approaches for your sessions please don't hesitate to get in touch with Gareth Johnson as Chair or Su Fagg at Worcester (01905 855342, mailto:s.fagg@worc.ac.uk>).
Gareth J Johnson, Chair Forum for Interlending and Information Delivery (FIL).
Document Supply & LRA Repository Manager. Chair UK Council for Research Repositories (UKCoRR). HEA Fellow.
