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Multimedia Information & Technology Volume 41 Number 3 news news MMIT Group annual conference 2015: programme With Power Comes Great Responsibility - How librarians can Harness the Power of Social Media for the Benefit of their Users’ Monday 14 September facilitating conversation with researchers 9:30 Registration • Michelle Bond & Angela Duckworth (Liverpool Hope 10:00 Welcome from MMIT University) Leo Appleton, Group Chair Create your own social media framework or policy 10:10 Opening Keynote • Penny Bailey (Bailey Marie Kinsey (Professor of Solutions) Journalism, University of Sheffield) How to measure the impact of Social media and journalism : the your enquiry service: tips and art of getting things spectacularly techniques wrong 13:00 Lunch 11:00 Parallel workshops 1 • Alison McNab & Judith Wayte 14:00 Keynote (University of Nottingham) Brian Kelly (Independent Informal professional consultant, UK Web Focus) The Edge, Sheffield, UK development through social Digital life beyond the institution media participation and of aspiring undergraduates social media for research networking 14:50 Sponsor lightning • Suzanne Parfitt (Charles Sturt during generic library skills • Jenny Morgan & Jacqui sessions University, New South Wales, sessions Taylor (Leeds Beckett Australia) • Lucy Keating (Newcastle University) 15:10 Break Would you like to be my friend? University) To Pin or not to Pin? Patrons’ views on academic Seeit, Tryit, Showit: new ways • Antony Groves (University of 15:30 PhD / Research Forum library engagement through of encouraging library staff to Sussex) • Virginia Power (University of social network sites explore social media Using Vine to publicise your the West of England) Function • Shazia Arif (Robert Gordon • Ka Ming Pang (St George’s library services follows form; the paradigmatic University) University) potentialities of social analytic No social media please, we’re How St George’s Library has 11:50 Break metadata enhancement and its researchers used social media to promote role in promoting OER use library services 12:10 Parallel workshops 2 • Lara Dodd (University of 16:30 Parallel workshops 3 • Suzie Kitchin (University of Northumbria) • Vashti Zarach (Bangor 19:30 Conference Dinner Northumbria) Using social media to capture University) After dinner speaker Phil Bradley To tweet or not to tweet — information seeking behaviour Encouraging students to use Privacy and social media Multimedia Information & Technology Volume 41 Number 3 August 2015 3 news Tuesday 15 September University) of Portsmouth) More than Buzzfeed and shelfies: • Clare Brown (Collyer Bristow) Measuring the impact of social Daleks, penguins and Sherlock how social media is used to address I’m a cyber librarian! My role 9:00 Andy Tattersall media marketing Holmes: effective social media professional issues in LIS work in boosting Collyer Bristow’s (University of Sheffield) • Jonny Mathias & Jock Wright library promotions Google rankings App swap breakfast RefME 14:20 Parallel workshops 6 RefME, failing fast: An 12:30 Lunch • Mike Ewen & Carl Barrow 15:10 Break Or registration for day 2 only academic tool that attracted (University of Hull) delegates a million users in one year 13:30 Keynote Broadening our horizons 15:30 Parallel workshops 7 through social media channels Lauren Smith (Research Associate, • Andy Tattersall (University of • Michelle Walker (University of 10:00 Welcome from MMIT • Timothy Collinson (University University of Strathclyde) Sheffield) Blog’s not dead Northumbria) Leo Appleton, Group Chair Engaging researchers with altmetrics 10:10 Sponsor lightning • Sierra Williams (London sessions School of Economics) From academic blog 10:30 Parallel workshops 4 to networked scholarly • Gavin Willshaw and community: lessons from the Stephanie Farley (University LSE impact Blog of Edinburgh) Social media collaboration – influencing 16:20 Closing remarks internal practices and cohesion • Mark Clowes (University 16:30 Close of Sheffield) & Rebecca Stevenson (Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust) Get yourself connected! Creating a joined up social media profile for your library services • Carolyn Kirby (Taylor & Francis) and Sally Faith (University of Sussex) Social saturation or engagement evolution? Use of social media in the library – 12 months on 11:20 Break 11:40 Parallel workshops 5 @multimediait • Claire Sewell (Cambridge #mmit2015 Multimedia Information & Technology Volume 41 Number 3 August 2015 4 news FreePint research illustrates to be significant usage growth with 90% of respondents making Bursary award winners This year, ILI’s conference over the next two years, with less this option available, followed by theme is ‘Dynamic disruption’ dramatic growth in than 3% predicting any decrease. end users’ own device at 53%. Eleanor Barker of the Medical and speakers from around the corporate use of eBooks The proliferation of multiple 189 respondents participated in Library at Cambridge University world will be exploring the smart devices has undoubtedly the research during January and Library, School of Clinical Medicine, new technologies, services and fuelled ebook adoption, allowing February this year. The full