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Sunday 23rd Enrichment Programme (only confirmed participants) casual dress
February
13:00 - 16:30 Boat Trip and Guided Tour of Robben Island
A boat trip to Robben Island and a guided tour of the prison that held Nelson Mandela for 18 years.
Participants will need to make their own way to the waterfront and the meeting point for the ferry.
17:00 - 22:00 Welcome Reception at the Hildebrand near the Cape Town Waterfront hosted by
Sabinet Online.
We are pleased to announce that Sabinet Online will be hosting a welcome reception for EMEARC 2014
delegates. This will be an informal opportunity for you to meet other delegates, representatives of OCLC,
speakers from the programme and of course our generous hosts for the evening.
The reception will commence at 17:00 and drinks and canapés will be served from 18:00. You are warmly
invited to join us at this relaxing waterfront venue. Please make your own way to the venue, your hotel
Concierge will be able to advise you accordingly. Please note that dinner will not be provided at this
reception.
Library Community in Action: advancing knowledge, collaboration and innovation
Monday 24th Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) Business Dress
February
08:30-09:30 Registration and Breakfast
Opening of EMEA Regional Council Annual Meeting 2014
09:30-09:45 Robert Moropa, Chair, EMEA Regional Council
09:45-10:00 Eric van Lubeek, Managing Director, OCLC EMEA
Plenary Session 1: Working Collaboratively - challenges for the global library community
Chair: Anja Smit, University Librarian, Utrecht University
What makes cooperatives and community good models for innovation and creativity? This session explores how the challenges we face in
the 21st century lend themselves to a collective response.
10:00-10:40 The Frugal Innovator – solutions for the 21st Century.
Charles Leadbeater, Independent and Strategic Adviser on Innovation
The world faces unprecedented innovation challenges. Lacklustre growth in the developed world. Exploding
demand among poorer consumers in the developing world. Growing constraints on resources, especially
water and energy, driven in part by climate change. Charles Leadbeater argues that we need a new approach
to innovation to cope with these challenges, a frugal approach which helps us to live more successfully by
husbanding resources. In this talk he will lay out the ideas in his new book The Frugal Innovator, looking at
the characteristics of innovations that will provide solutions to the challenges of the 21st century. They will
be lean, simple, social and clean, wherever possible reusing and recycling resources, adapting proven

technologies and providing shared solutions. Leadbeater will look at the future of libraries and knowledge
sharing in the context of these challenges and the need for frugal innovation, arguing that many of the
principles that libraries stand for - simple, open, shared use of recycled material, will be even more important
in the years to come.
10:40-11:10 Meeting the innovation challenge…cooperatively
Skip Prichard, OCLC CEO and President
The OCLC cooperative has been a model of frugal innovation since its inception more than four decades ago.
Working together, librarians have built the world’s largest database of cultural heritage holdings in a costeffective,
efficient manner. This history is impressive, but what of the future? Skip will look at OCLC in
Charles’s context: what else can we do cooperatively as a library community to improve our service? What is
OCLC’s role in engendering even greater efficiencies in furthering access to the world’s information? Given
the complexities of the environments in which we operate, how can we work together to create and
implement lean, simple, and social tools that will enable our users to be successful in their endeavours? Skip
believes that the library community is ready and eager to face the innovation challenge.
11:10-11:30 Discussion
11:30-12:00 Refreshment Break
Breakout Talks 1
12:00-13:00
Main Plenary Room
12:00-13:00
Breakout Rooms
A: Passionate Communication and Modern Library Marketing: Community Options to
Reach New and Current Users
Facilitated by: Norbert Weinberger and Elisabeth Denk
Speakers: Barbara Lison and Ton van Vlimmeren
How can public libraries reach actual and potential library users with more impact? Which service of the
library do people want and how do they want to be addressed? How can the library community be involved
and support their individual Public Library?
Based on the US community campaign Geek the Library for Public Libraries the library associations and
library experts are carrying out pilot tests in Europe. The German speaking countries have set up a pilot test
in Germany, Austria and Switzerland with the campaign BiblioFreak fom July 2013 to January 2014. As a basis
for this pilot the market needs had been analyzed and defined. First hand experiences of all institutions
involved, such as the participating public libraries, ekz.bibliotheksservice GmbH (German library supplier
company), the respective national library associations dbv (D), BVÖ (A) and other institutions will be
presented.
The G4 libraries in the Netherlands (Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam and Utrecht) and OCLC are working
on a pilot project with a Dutch version of the original slogan ‘Geek de Bibliotheek.’ Campaign launch is
planned for the end of October until December. Additional funding to finance a multi media campaign has
been acquired. The pilot will be evaluated early 2014. Pilot results will be transferred to the Public Library
Branch for a national roll out of the campaign.
In this Breakout Talk Barbara Lison, Ton van Vlimmeren, Elisabeth Denk and Norbert Weinberger will share
and discuss the outcome and lessons learned from this campaign.
B: Growing WorldCat: What the Global Community Wants
Facilitated by: Ted Fons
Speaker: Jos Damen, Susan Murray
The most prolific example of library collaboration globally is the development of the world’s largest collection
of library data, WorldCat. This session will explore future development of WorldCat. We will look at the
ongoing effort to diversify the international content and collection types represented in this global resource.
Emphasis will be on how the growth in global resources supports library workflows and helping libraries
manage the cost of metadata, resource sharing, and discovery services.
Jos Damen (African Studies Centre, Leiden) and Susan Murray (African Journals Online, AJOL) will talk about
the continuing importance of metadata and abstracts for African journal articles, and of the availability of
scientific publications on and from Africa. The population of Africa tripled in the last 50 years, and is
expected to more than double again by 2050. Moreover, Africa’s population is young and eager to get
relevant information, either online or on paper. Some African governments (Ethiopia, Rwanda, South Africa)
are heavily investing in education, but as a rule, the region’s library and information sector, including journal
publishing, continues to be inadequately supported and resourced. The importance of good and inter-linked
scholarly publication platforms with quality metadata for discoverability and accessibility to full text is
paramount. Some statistics and insights on this drawn from recent research into the State of Scholarly
Publishing in Africa will be shared.

12:00-13:00
Breakout Rooms
12:00-13:00
C: OCLC WorldShare Management Services - Update
Facilitated by: Axel Kaschte
Speakers: Emma Sansby, Pierre Malan
We are pleased to observe that the adoption of Worldshare Management Services is steadily growing around
the globe, the aim of this session is to provide a progress report on rollout with a special focus on Academic
libraries and EMEA. Our Product Strategy Director Axel Kaschte will get us up to speed on the latest
developments. We would also like to share one of the most recent experiences in implementation with a
presentation from Bishop Grosseteste University, UK and include an update from our distributor Sabinet on
roll out in South Africa. All are most welcome to attend the session and we encourage questions to make it
lively and interactive.
D: Linked Data Exposed
Facilitator and Speaker: Richard Wallis
Breakout Rooms Want to know a bit more about Linked Data; how it is being exposed through WorldCat; its place
underpinning the global graph of knowledge; and how it can help libraries guide users to their resources?
Join OCLC Technology Evangelist, and chair of the W3C Schema Bib Extend Community, Richard Wallis as he
explores Linked Data from first principles, to the way it will shape our future. Richard is expecting questions
in this interactive session. So if there is something you have been wanting to ask on the topic, this is your
chance.
13:00-14:00 Buffet Lunch, networking and exhibition including BIBLIONEF's 'Bringing Books to the
Bookless' stand.
Breakout Talks 2
14:00-15:00
Main Plenary Room
14:00-15:00
Breakout Rooms
14:00-15:00
Breakout Rooms
E: We Built a Community!
Facilitated by: Fiona Leslie
Speakers: Stephanie Diakité, Dr. Buhle Mbambo-Thata, Naomi House
The concept of community is based on how people gather around shared interests or location to give and
take mutually. Community-building must give value back to those who participate, or they are not
sustainable. In the world of libraries, scarce resources and an ethos of sharing, means that communitybuilding
offers a credible way to solve problems and further public goals. This session will explore some real
examples of community-building in the world of libraries.
First of all, Stephanie will tell us about T160K (the Timbuktu Manuscripts Knowledge for Peace Initiative), an
'Indiegogo' crowd-sourcing campaign that reached out to a global community.
Dr. Mbambo-Thata in her role as Library Director of UNISA will talk about their unique collaboration with
public libraries, especially with local city public library services in Tshwane. This partnership, in addition to
improving outreach to students in the Tshwane area also provides career professional development for those
employed by the libraries involved. Reciprocal benefit is a vital ingredient for any community-building
activity.
F: OCLC Research – Innovation through cooperation
Facilitator and Speaker: Titia van der Werf
How does innovation work in the context of OCLC? Titia van der Werf will explain the innovation process
with a variety of examples which illustrate how innovation, research and partnership go hand in hand. The
examples will also give a bird’s eye view of the innovation areas in which libraries currently invest heavily.
The talk will demonstrate that innovation requires collaboration beyond organisational boundaries and
intensive interactions between the various players in the innovation chain (funders, academia, service
providers, IT-industry, etc.).
G: WorldShare Interlibrary Loan - moving on with fulfillment
Facilitated by: TBC
Speakers: Poul Erlandsen, Jenny Raubenheimer
OCLC WorldShare Interlibrary Loan fully replaces WorldCat Resource Sharing in May 2014. The service
centralises workflows now managed in multiple systems and will provide new functionality that speeds
fulfilment of interlibrary loan requests and saves time for library staff and library users. The migration from
WorldCat Resource Sharing to WorldShare Interlibrary Loan transforms traditional interlibrary loan into a
much broader fulfilment service with associated workflows. In the new service, interlibrary loan will be one
of any number of fulfilment options a library may select according to the needs of its users and library
policies. Find out how you can take advantage of improvements to ILL and wider fulfilment workflows by
joining this session.

14:00-15:00
Breakout Rooms
You will also hear Poul Erlandsen (Head of Department Royal Library Denmark), Jenny Raubenheimer
(Director of Information Resources Distribution, UNISA), and Katie Birch (Portfolio Director, Delivery Services,
OCLC) discuss how the traditional Interlibrary Loan service is evolving in to a just-in-time, on demand service
to meet the needs of your end users.
Hear how Poul makes best use of the OCLC library network to fulfil demand from his users, and meet the
demands of other libraries.
Jenny Raubenheimer will talk about a South African perspective on inter-library loan and Katie Birch will
discuss how ILL is changing and how OCLC is shaping applications to handle these changes.
H: WorldShare Platform and APIs
Facilitated by: Roger Grossmann
Speaker: Cornelius Parkin
OCLC’s WorldShare Platform provides flexible, open access to library data through Application Programming
Interfaces. Libraries use Platform services to streamline library management workflows and to improve the
service offerings. Partners use Platform services to connect to the WorldShare Network in order to build new
offerings for libraries and patrons. The presentation will demonstrate examples how libraries and partners
make beneficial use of OCLC's WorldShare Platform services. Technically, the WorldShare Platform is a
global, interconnected Web architecture that leverages collective data collections and WorldShare
Management application data and processes. OCLC has established a global infrastructure network in order
to make Platform services available worldwide. A high level view of the WorldShare Platform architecture
and used technologies will be outlined in the presentation.
14:45-15:15 Refreshments Available
Plenary Session 2: South African Libraries Spotlight
Chair: Ellen Tise, Senior Director, Library and Information Services, Stellenbosch University
The EMEA Regional Council invited South African librarians to submit their proposals for a lightning talk on the theme: "If you want to go
fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together". We wanted to hear about projects or programs in the South African library community
that reflected the idea that we can achieve more when we act in unison, than when we act alone as individual institutions. This session
will unveil the best stories of collaboration from the region and we will be rewarding the talk voted by the audience, as the most engaging
with a prize.
15:15-15:25 Lightning Talk One Anne-Lise Fourie, Biodiversity Heritage Library Africa
15:25-15:35 Lightning Talk Two Nazeem Hardy, City of Cape Town Library & Information Services
Department
15:35-15:45 Lightning Talk Three Denyse Knipe,Tshwane University of Technology
15:45-15:55 Lightning Talk Four Mpho Regina Masienyane, Lintle Community Awakening (Lintle)
15:55-16:10 Voting for best Lightning Talk
16:10-16:40 The Role of National Libraries in Collaboration:
National, Regional and Global Perspective
John Tsebe, National Library of South Africa
The importance of collaboration and partnerships will be presented from a National Library perspective. An
overview will be given of national, regional and global initiatives. National Libraries play a significant role in
building relationships among library professionals and the profession in their respective countries. A future
partnership model for National Libraries in global cooperative will be discussed.
16:45 Close of Day One and award of Lightning Talk prize - Robert Moropa, Chair EMEARC
18:00 Coach transfer to Conference Dinner Venue from Walter Sisulu Avenue, next to CTICC
19:00-22:30 Dinner at SuikerBossie Restaurant
Tuesday 25th
Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) Business Dress

February
08:50-09:00 Welcome and Recap of Day One
Robert Moropa, Chair EMEARC
Regional Council Business Session 1
Chair: Fiona Parsons, Director of Learning and Information Services, University of Wolverhampton
09:00-09:25 OCLC in Africa, Rosalind Hattingh, Managing Director, Sabinet Online
09:25-09:40 OCLC EMEA Report, Eric van Lubeek, Managing Director OCLC EMEA
09:40-10:00 OCLC Report, Skip Prichard, President and CEO, OCLC
10:00-10:20 Discussion at Tables: Each table will have a member of the SLT/BOT/BOD
10:20-10:40 What Members would like OCLC leaders to hear from the table discussions - Panel
Discussion with Skip Prichard, Eric van Lubeek, Rosalind Hattingh, Sandy Yee. Questions
may also be contributed prior to the meeting
10:40-11:00 Refreshment Break
Regional Council Business Session 2
Chair: Cendrella Habre, University Librarian, Lebanese American University
11:00-11:25 Report on EMEA Regional Council and Global Council Activities
Robert Moropa, Chair, EMEARC
11:25-11:45 Report from OCLC Board of Trustees
Sandy Yee, Chair, OCLC Board of Trustees
11:45-12:15 OCLC Membership and Changes to the Membership Protocols
Poul Erlandsen and George Needham
12:15-12:30 Global Council Delegate Elections 2014
Anja Smit, EMEARC Nominating Committee
12:30-13:30 Buffet Lunch, Networking & Exhibition
Breakout Talks 3
13:30-14:30
Breakout Rooms
13:30-14:30
Breakout Rooms
13:30-14:30
Breakout Rooms
I: The Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program
Facilitated by: George Needham
Speakers: Sarah Kaddu, Cyrill Walters
The aim of this session is to provide members with information about the The Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early
Career Development Fellowship Program, with a view to encouraging more applications to the program. Two
former Fellows, Sarah Kaddu and Cyrill Walters will talk about their experience and how the Program has
helped them in their career to date.
J: OCLC Research – Innovation Through Cooperation
Facilitator and Speaker: Titia van der Werf
How does innovation work in the context of OCLC? Titia van der Werf will explain the innovation process
with a variety of examples which illustrate how innovation, research and partnership go hand in hand. The
examples will also give a bird’s eye view of the innovation areas in which libraries currently invest heavily.
The talk will demonstrate that innovation requires collaboration beyond organisational boundaries and
intensive interactions between the various players in the innovation chain (funders, academia, service
providers, IT-industry, etc.).
K: Library Consortia in EMEA
Facilitated by: Dénelise L'Ecluse
Speakers: Bas Savenije, Laila Vahed, Jeff Gima
The spirit of collaboration in Europe, Middle East and Africa is strong, and never more so than within the
library community where there are so many challenges that can better be addressed by organised consortia.
The importance of consortia both regionally, nationally and internationally will be discussed in this session.
We will explore how library consortia are evolving to meet new challenges in their environment and what
models for collaboration with OCLC they would like to see emerge.
Bas Savenije is Director of the National Library in Amsterdam and a member of the UKB. The UKB is a
consortium of thirteen academic libraries in the Netherlands and the National Library. Together they forged
a close partnership based on their shared national infrastructure for cataloguing, discovery and ILL. In 2013,
the UKB decided to migrate this national infrastructure to the global WorldShare platform. Mr Savenije will

13:30-14:30
Breakout Rooms
13:30-14:30
Main Plenary Room
talk about their reasons for this decision and their expectations for the future.
Laila Vahed is Library Director at the University of Zululand and Chair of SANLiC. Ms Vahed will talk about the
challenges that consortia like SANLiC face to deliver on their mandate, and what they can do to counteract
such external pressures.
Jeff Gima is Director of the AMICAL Consortium, based at the American University of Paris. AMICAL is an
international consortium of 26 American-modeled universities in 21 different countries, a cooperative
organization for advancing learning, teaching and research through the collaborative development of
libraries, information services and curricular resources at member institutions. Jeff will talk about AMICAL’s
unique perspective as a consortium that crosses national boundaries and about the collaboration model they
envisage developing with OCLC going forward.
L: OCLC WorldShare Management Services - Update
Facilitated by: Axel Kaschte
Speakers: Emma Sansby, Pierre Malan
We are pleased to observe that the adoption of Worldshare Management Services is steadily growing around
the globe; the aim of this session is to provide a progress report on rollout with a special focus on Academic
libraries and EMEA. Our Product Strategy Director Axel Kaschte will get us up to speed on the latest
developments. We would also like to share one of the most recent experiences in implementation with a
presentation from Bishop Grosseteste University, UK and include an update from our distributor Sabinet on
roll out in South Africa. All are most welcome to attend the session and we encourage questions to make it
lively and interactive.
M: Innovation and Change Management in Libraries
Facilitated by: Hanita van der Meulen
Speakers: Jacques Malschaert, Fiona Parsons
“You need to change to stay the same”
Libraries are reinventing themselves to meet the changing needs of users. This session will include case
studies of how institutions are redefining themselves. Drawing on his own experience, Jacques Malschaert,
will explain the way public libraries are organised in the Netherlands and how they have adapted to the
changes happening around them.
“Cloud atlas” – one university’s journey into the LMS cloud.
Fiona Parsons, University of Wolverhampton, will present on the university’s decision to move to a cloudbased
solution for the Library Management System (LMS or ILS), and consider the challenges, benefits and
organisational impact of the move. Previous to the move the University of Wolverhampton’s LMS was
Capita’s Alto (previously known as Talis.) It had been run on a traditional model of locally installed servers,
supported by a dedicated team.
14:15-14:45 Refreshments available
Plenary Session 3: Library Community in Action
Chair: Bert Looper, Director, Tresoar
In our final session of the Meeting we will explore two very real, but very different examples of our ‘library community in action”. The
first half of the session, addresses the challenge of innovation, how by working together as a community we ensure that our users who
are out on the web are continuing to find us, connect with us, and our valuable collections. In the second half of the session we look at
the challenge of protecting and preserving our cultural heritage. We will hear how a community of librarians from Mali, mobilised after
civil unrest to protect a huge and priceless collection of manuscripts from the threat of destruction.
14:45-15:30 Collective Impact and the Power of Shared Data
Ted Fons and Richard Wallis, OCLC
As the web has enabled ubiquitous and instantaneous discovery of information, library users expect to find
material online. Libraries must aggregate their data to be more relevant on the web; it's not enough to have
collections accessible only through an online catalogue, we need to weave library data throughout the web.
This talk will demonstrate why we must use the latest ideas and technologies to make our shared library data
consumable by library web services and rethink the model of shared cataloguing--to move away from record
management to the management of entities that can be recognised and consumed on the web.
15:30-15:45 Introduction to the Timbuktu Story
Ellen Tise, University of Stellenbosch
15:45-16:15 We close with a story about the massive international effort to save the Timbuktu
archives in Mali, which truly demonstrates the Meeting's Theme, “Library Community

in Action”. Stephanie Diakité, Co-Founder T160K
Over the past 1000 years an important global legacy has developed the literate culture of Africa, which is
symbolised by the extraordinary richness of historical manuscripts that still survive, often precariously, in the
Niger valley and its desert Hinterland.
In 2012, when Mali was thrust into a socio-political and cultural crisis that resulted in the annexing of the
northern regions of Timbuktu, Abdel Kader and Stephanie Diakité undertook a vast and secret operation to
safeguard the hundreds of thousands of manuscripts of Timbuktu in collaboration with the members of
SAVAMA DCI. Many of the members, like Abdel Kader, are direct descendants of the ancient scholars of
Timbuktu whose work they curate in their family libraries.
Stephanie will recount the compelling story of how more than 300,000 manuscripts were brought to safety in
the south of Mali under harrowing conditions of socio-political unrest in the south and warfare in the north.
Stephanie and Abdel Kader began T160K - the Timbuktu Libraries in Exile Knowledge, to support the
safeguarding of the manuscripts until they can be returned to their home in Timbuktu. T160K successfully
implemented an “Indiegogo” crowd sourcing activity to raise funds for urgent conservation work in the
corpus of evacuated manuscripts which were previously always stored in the dry Sahara desert, but which
are now subject to exposure to significant humidity in the south of Mali.
16:15-16:30 Discussion
16:30 Close of EMEARC 2014 by Robert Moropa and Poul Erlandsen
17:15 - 20:00 Enrichment Programme - Visit to University of Cape Town (only confirmed participants)
A visit to the nearby University of Cape Town campus and a short tour of their library and Special Collections
in the J.W.Jagger Library. The group will be addressed by Professor Crain Soudien Deputy Vice-Chancellor,
UCT. Light refreshments will be provided offering the opportunity for informal networking.
A free return coach transfer will be provided for this visit.
Wednesday 26th Enrichment Programme (only confirmed participants)
February
08:00 - 17:00 Stellenbosch University and Delheim wine farm tour
Stellenbosch University is home to an academic community of some 28 000 students (including more than 3
000 foreign students). The historical oak-lined university town amongst the Boland Mountains in the
winelands of the Western Cape creates a unique campus atmosphere, which attracts local and foreign
students alike. Stellenbosch University is among South Africa's leading tertiary institutions based on research
output, student pass rates and rated scientists, and is recognised internationally as an academic institution of
excellence. The visit will include tours of remarkable landmarks of the Town, University museum, botanical
gardens, main campus and the main JS Gericke Library, located in a modern sub-terrestrial building. The visit
will end with a lunch.
On the way back to Cape Town we will take the opportunity to visit one of the many wine farms in the area,
Delheim Wine Farm which is set in beautiful surroundings.
A free return coach transfer will be provided for this visit.
09:00 - 11:00 National Library of South Africa and Centre for the Book
The Centre for the Book is an outreach unit of the National Library of South Africa. Its mission is to promote a
culture of reading, writing and publishing in local languages and easy access to books for all. The Centre for
the Book is housed in a historic Edwardian building in the heart of Cape Town. This enrichment will include a
tour of the National Library of South Africa and Centre for the Book.
A free return coach transfer will be provided for this visit.