Conferences - slowly building this backfile as time permits
1980
August 16-23 46th IFLA General Conference, Manila Speaker
1984
May Seminar on the Impact of Information Technology on Academic Libraries and Library Networks Organiser
held in Edinburgh University Library. Edinburgh: University Library, 1986 ISBN: 0907182054
1985
September 12-13 UCP [Publishers] Conference, Pembroke College Oxford Speaker
1986
August 24-29 52nd IFLA General Conference, Tokyo Organiser
1987
September 8-10 MARC Users Group 13th Annual Seminar Westhill College, Birmingham
Mechanisms for Co-operation Speaker
November 17-20 ISI Users Conference. Information Access in the Global Village
1988
July 1 Presentation to Xerox Seminar Speaker Powerpoint
August 27- 54th IFLA General Conference, Sydney Organiser
September 3
1989
August 55th IFLA General Conference, Paris Organiser
September 25 UCPPC Conference of the Publishers Association, Oxford Speaker
[An expanded version of the paper was published in Learned Publishing in 1990]
1990
March 12-15 Seminario Hispano-Britanico sobre Cooperacion e Informatizacion Bibliotecaria, Madrid Speaker
April 8-11 Anglo-German Foundation Conference, Cambridge Speaker
May 9-11 European Conference on Library Automation and Networking, Brussels Attendee
May 15-17 EARN/RARE Joint Networking Conference Killarney, Ireland Speaker
August 18-24 IFLA General Conference, 1990.Stockholm. Division of Bibliographic Control: Open Forum Speaker
September 13-16 Bibliotheques d'Etude et de Recherche dans la CEE. Anglo French Conference, Caen Attendee
Proceedings listed at: http://www.enssib.fr/bibliotheque-numerique/revues/afficher-42570
November 12 UK Medical School Librarians Group Speaker
1991
? Computers in the History of Art Conference, London Speaker
--.02 BLRDD Conference on Opportunities in Europe, University of Canterbury Speaker
22.03 Conference in Porto. Computing?
--.08 IFLA Conference in Moscow Organiser News Report
1992
March 4-6 4th Congreso Nacional de Bibliotecarios Arquivistas e Documentalistos, Braga, Portugal Speaker
June 4-6 IIS Annual Conference, Bedford. The Common Market for Information. Speaker
August 30 58th IFLA General Conference, New Delhi. Organiser
- September 5
September Networking and the future of Libraries 1, University of Bath Speaker
September 23-26 Information Transfer: new age - new ways Speaker (two papers)
1993
January 18 QUT, Brisbane. Lecture to local Librarians on Datasets Policy Speaker
March 22-25 16th UKSG Annual Conference, Southampton University Speaker
May 11-14 19th IASSIST Conference, University of Edinburgh Attendee
August 22-28 59th IFLA General Conference, Barcelona Organiser
http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla59/index.htm
September 14-16 JANET User Support Workshop, Manchester Metropolitan University Not Known
November 17-19 CNI Annual Meeting Washington Attendee
December Information Online & On Disc 93, Sydney Speaker
1994
January 6-7 Towards a blanket licensing scheme for the re-use of copyright material in computer courseware Speaker
development. The Scientific Societies Lecture Theatre, New Burlington Place, London
http://www.educa.fmf.uni-lj.si/izodel/tecaji/mm/COPYRGHT/educ/blanket.htm#three
May 3-5 1st International Conference on Electronic Library and Visual Information Research (ELVIRA) at
De Montfort University, Milton Keynes Conference Chair
May 20-21 Barcelona. Not known Not known
August 19-27 60th IFLA General Conference, Havana, Cuba. Organiser
http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla60/60cp.htm
September 8-11 The Electronic Environment of Academic Libraries and Information Centres in Europe held at
University College Dublin Attendee
October 12-14 Library networking in Europe,Brussels. Speaker
October 18-20 CRICS 2. Bireme, Sao Paolo Speaker
November 29-30 CNI Fall Task Force Meeting, Walt Disney World, Florida Panellist
http://www.cni.org/tfms/1994b.fall/final-agenda.html
1995
Date and venue not identified Post-Follett Paper on bid outcomes, 1995 Speaker
SRHE Annual Conference Speaker?
???? Blackwell Staff Seminar, Oxford Speaker
February 13-14 AGOCG Conference, University of Loughborough Speaker
http://www.agocg.ac.uk/wshop/www/contents.htm
March 7-9 Computers in Libraries 95, London Speaker
April 3-5 UKSG 18th Annual Conference, University of Exeter [Serial killers?] Speaker
April 10-11 CNI Spring Meeting, Washington DC Attendee
April 19-21 Networking and the future of Libraries 2, University of Bath Speaker
May Aalborg, Denmark. Libraries conference Speaker
May 10-12 7 ICML Washington DC Health Information for the Global Village Speaker
Introduction. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC226127/pdf/mlab00098-0096.pdf
May 18 ASLIB Biosciences Group AGM. Rothampstead Experimental Station Speaker Powerpoint
Report: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2532.1995.12403092.x/pdf
June 8 British Computer Society. Electronic Publishing Specialist Group Debate Speaker
August 20-26 61st IFLA, Istanbul Organiser
September 7-9 UC&R Anglo-French conference, Nice. L'Usager Dans La Bibliotheque: Autonomie et Dependance Speaker
October 19-21 Reconnecting Science and Humanities in Digital Libraries, University of Kentucky and British Library Speaker
November 21 BIBSAM Studenternas bibliotek, Stockholm Speaker Powerpoint
1996
January 25 EDINA Launch as a national Service Speaker
http://edina.ac.uk/news/newsline1-1.html
February 9-10 1st JISC/CNI Conference. Networked Information in an international context. Heathrow Ramada Organiser
Report: http://www.cni.org/regconfs/uk-9602-report.html
February 19-23 Expert Conference on Electronic Publishing in Science, Paris, ICSU/UNESCO Speaker
http://www.icsu.org/5_abouticsu/CDSI_web/EPS1/ConfProc.html
April 1-3 Dublin Core Metadata Workshop II, University of Warwick Organiser
http://dublincore.org/workshops/dc2/organization.shtml
May 8 Seminar held at the British Academy. Retrospective conversion of Library Catalogues in the UK Speaker
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/papers/bl/blri053/appendixa.html
June 24-26 Self-service in academic libraries : future or fallacy? SCONUL/University of Sunderland Speaker
August 25-31 62nd IFLA General Conference, Beijing Organiser
http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla62/index.htm
September 16-18 ALT-C 96, University of Strathclyde Attendee
December 9-13 SCECSAL 12 Bridges to the Past - Gateways to the Future. Maseru, Lesotho Speaker
1997
April 1-2 CNI Spring Task Force Meeting, Washington, DC http://www.cni.org/tfms/1997a.spring/ Attendee
May 7-8 NAG and UKSG Seminar Eynsham Hall, Witney, Oxfordshire Speaker
http://www.kaapeli.fi/hypermail/ecup-list/0251.html
June 16-17 2nd JISC/CNI Meeting.Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library ,
QE2 Conference Centre, London Organiser
Programme: http://www.cni.org/regconfs/1997/ukoln-content/repor~35.html
Report: http://www.cni.org/regconfs/1997/uk-content.html
June 25-26 Managing the Market Place: Libraries and Procurement, Professions in Partnership. Speaker
National Group on Consortium Purchasing for Academic Libraries conference UMIST, Manchester
September 15-16 Universitat Gottingen. Symposium Informationsinfrastruktur im Wandel Speaker
September 18 WTR-Seminar 18 September 1997: De relatie tussen UB en RC. [keynote address]. Speaker
September 23-26 17th Public Library Authorities Conference, Torquay. The World Our Oyster? Speaker Powerpoint
1998
January 7 Xerox Sales Conference Speaker Powerpoint
February 4-7 EU Telematics Programme Conference, Barcelona Speaker
April 21 Medical Information 2000. Libraries and Publishing in thenext century. A report on the joint Speaker
Health Libraries Group/Royal Society of Medicine conference held at the Royal Society of
Medicine
June 22-27 6th European Conference on Medical and Health Libraries, Utrecht Speaker
July 14-16 UKOLUG 20th Birthday Conference, Manchester Attendee??
September 21-23 2nd European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries Speaker Powerpoint
Heraklion, Crete
October 25-28 Beijing, International Conference on New Missions of Academic Libraries in the 21st Century. Speaker
November 26 British Council Seminar, Paris Speaker Powerpoint
December 9 Widening participation through the University for Industry: How libraries support lifelong
learning. University of Sunderland Speaker
1999
January 31 Networks without Wires. Paper given at an open meeting of the Sri Lankan Library Association. Speaker
February 1-3 Towards a learning Nation: Workshop on National Planning of Libraries, Resources and Services,
Colombo, Sri Lanka Speaker
February 13 DCMS/Wolfson Seminar, London Speaker
February 25-26 A Healthy Heritage: Collecting for the future of Medical History. Wellcome Trust, London Speaker
April 22 IIS Scottish Branch Meeting, Glasgow. Developing an Information Strategy Speaker
Meeting Notice: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=SCRAN;c100396f.9904
June Digital Culture: maximising the nation's Investment: British Academy, June 1999 Speaker Powerpoint
June 28-29 Is there a future for informatics research. A strategy for the twenty-first century. A Cranfield
Conference in Honour of Jack Meadows Speaker Powerpoint
July 12-14 Digital Cultural Heritage Seminar, Maastricht University Speaker
http://www.exploit-lib.org/issue2/maastricht/
September 14-16 DRH '99. Recording the Past. King's College London Speaker Powerpoint
October 17-23 Networking for Effective Libraries Workshop, Sri Lanka, IFLA-ALP Speaker
http://www.ifla.org/archive/VII/s26/conf/netw.htm
2000
January 13 ALPSP Seminar on copyright Speaker Powerpoint
February 7 FUTURES TOGETHER CONFERENCE - HOLDINGS TO ACCESS IN THE WEST MIDLANDS , Birmingham Speaker
May 11 4th Epixtech Annual Lecture Napier University May 2000 Speaker Powerpoint
June 4-6 Annual IBM Think Tank. Ecole Des Hautes Etudes, Montreal Attendee
June 14-16 3rd JISC/CNI Conference After Dinner
Programme: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/jisc-cni-2000/programme.html
July 2-5 8ICML Converge on London Organiser
http://www.icml9.org/archives/8icmlspi.htm
August 13-18 66th IFLA General Conference, Jerusalem Organiser
September 26 ingenta institute Conference, Institute of Directors, London Speaker Powerpoint
2001
February 5th Aurora Leadership Institute, Thredbo, Australia Lecturer Powerpoint
March 9-10 British Council Bologna. Towards an Information Society for All: a European Perspective Speaker Powerpoint
Joined up networks and grown up thinking
April 4-6 SCONUL Annual Conference, Glasgow Organiser
http://www.sconul.ac.uk/events/agm2001/
April 24-27 5th CRICS Conference, Havana, Cuba La informacion y el conociemento para la Equidad de la
Salud http://crics5.bvsalud.org/E/programa.htm Speaker Powerpoint
May 1-4 Celtic Connections Library Conference, Ireland Attendee
May 28 - June 1 22nd IATUL Conference, University of Delft Speaker
August 16-25 67th IFLA Boston Attendee
November 10 Elsevier Science Editors' Conference: 21st Century Challenges in Publishing and Editing Speaker Powerpoint
Sheraton Lisbon, Portugal
2002
April 15-18 28th Feria del Libro de Buenos Aires Attendee
[Attended as part of organising the IFLA Conference for the following year in B.A.]
June 18-20 6th Institutional Web Management Workshop, Strathclyde University Speaker Powerpoint
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/talks/law/
June 19-22 EUNIS 2002: 8th International Conference of European University Information Systems
University of Porto, Portugal Speaker Powerpoint
http://paginas.fe.up.pt/eunis2002/EunisStatic/conteudos/conteudo_3.html
June 26-27 4th JISC/CNI Conference, Edinburgh After Dinner
Programme: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/jisc-cni-2002/
July 15-18 Shanghai International Library Forum “The Glasgow Digital Library” 15-18 July 2002, Shanghai Speaker Powerpoint
August 27-29 3rd Annual Conference of the LTSN Centre for Information and Computer Sciences Speaker Powerpoint
“The Weak go to the Blackboard: Learning and Teaching Strategies”
September 16-18 6th ECDL, Rome. Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries Attendee
Proceedings:
Report at: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october02/buchanan/10buchanan.html
October 23-29 ICIMSS Conference on Planning a Digital Library, Torun, Poland Speaker Powerpoint1 +Powerpoint2
November 1-3 Stellenbosch Annual Digital Library Symposium, “Blessed are the cheesemakers” Speaker
November 17-20 Lianza Annual Conference, Wellington, New Zealand Speaker Powerpoint1 + Powerpoint2
2003
Information Scotland 10th Annual Conference, Edinburgh: Information for Scotland – the last ten years, the next ten years Speaker Powerpoint
March 27 Animal Health Information Specialists 10th Annual Conference, Edinburgh: Dix ans après: looking back - looking forward
http://www.ahis.org/conferences/Conf2003.html Speaker Powerpoint
April 14-17 COFHE Conference, Heriot Watt University. Access for All, Education and Libraries Speaker Powerpoint
May 6-9 CRICS 6. Puebla, Mexico. Conocer para Decidir Speaker Powerpoint
http://crics6.bvsalud.org/crics6/program/?lang=en
Are Librarians still under pressure? How to deal with it? Policies at national, institutional and individual level
May 19-22 Terena 19th Networking Conference. Zagreb, Croatia Speaker Powerpoint
May 27 University of Oxford US Library Summer School, Oxford: The Glass ceiling: barriers and limits to co-operation Speaker Powerpoint
June 27-29 Society of Indexers Annual Conference, Glasgow: Precision tools in a fuzzy world: from indexing to the semantic web Speaker Powerpoint
July 24-26 5th Fiesole Publishers Conference, Oxford. The Social Role of Digital Libraries Speaker Powerpoint
http://www.casalini.it/retreat/2003_docs/Law.pdf
Innovations in the information society and their implications for libraries/information services
Derek Law, University of Strathclyde, UK 20 October 2003
in Bern at SNL,
21 October
in Geneva at WIPO La Bibliothèque nationale suisse, l'Association of International Librarians and Information Specialists et le Service d'information scientifique du CERN
October 30-31 Stellenbosch 6th Digital Library Symposium, South Africa: Electronic information: who pays the ferryman? Speaker Powerpoint
November 21 Grampian Information Annual Conference, Aberdeen: Digital Libraries: a practical tool for uniting communities Speaker Powerpoint
2004
Unpublished paper on current state of research at JISC/CNI joint Anglo-American Conference in Brighton
March 11 OCLC Distinguished Seminar Series. The Social Role of Digital Libraries Speaker Powerpoint
http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/events/dss/ppt/dss_law.ppt
May 23-29 ACURIL XXXIV, Trinidad. Electronic Information Resources in the Caribbean: Speaker Powerpoint
Trends and Issues
June 18 AGCAS Heads of Service Conference, Strathclyde Speaker Powerpoint
July 8-9 5th JISC/CNI Conference, Brighton After Dinner
Programme: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/jisc-cni-2004/intro.html
October 4-5 Delos Workshop on the Evaluation of Digital Libraries, University of Padua Speaker Powerpoint
http://dlib.ionio.gr/wp7/workshop2004.html
October 11 Scottish Open Access Declaration, Royal Society of Edinburgh Organiser
http://scurl.ac.uk/WG/OATS/declaration.htm
October 12 Paper given at CURL Members Meeting on digital preservation Speaker Powerpoint
October 28-29 Progress in Library and Information Science in Southern Africa: Proceedings of the Third Biennial DISSANET
Conference. Pretoria: Infuse, 2004. [keynote address. pp1-10] Keynote Speaker Powerpoint
2005
January 25-26 University of Southampton. Open Access Institutional Repositories: Leadership.... Speaker Powerpoint
http://www.eprints.org/events/jan2005/presentations.html
February 15 Edinburgh. Launch of SUNCAT Speaker
February 25 Dublin Library & Information Resources Group Speaker Powerpoint
March Sligo Irish Computing Centre Directors Conference Speaker Powerpoint
March Southampton 3rd Berlin Conference on Institutional Repositories
April Munich ELAB (Elsevier) Speaker
May 12-13 University of Minho on Open Access Speaker
May 24-27 31st IASSIST Conference, University of Edinburgh After Dinner
June 15-17 eLit2005. 4th International Conference on eliteracy, University of Strathclyde Speaker
October 27-28 8th Stellenbosch Annual Symposium Speaker Powerpoint
http://www.lib.sun.ac.za/sym2005/program.htm
October London Royal Society/BCS on Institutional Repositories
December London UKERNA Network Managers Conference
December 12-15 8th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, Bangkok Attendee
2006
March Elsevier E-Lab, London Speaker Powerpoint
April 8-10 JANET Networkshop 36, University of Strathclyde Speaker Powerpoint
May 16-19 Celtic Connections 3, Cardiff Speaker Powerpoint
http://www.celticconnections.info/
May 23-26 WWW 2006, Edinburgh. 15th International World Wide Web Conference Attendee
June 8 Grampian Information AGM, Aberdeen Speaker Powerpoint
grampianinfo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/agm-06-draft-minute.rtf
June 11-12 EUMEDIS Conference, Alexandria Attendee
June 28-30 e-Lit 2006, Loughborough University Attendee?
July 6-7 6th JISC-CNI Conference, York. Envisioning future challenges in networked information Speaker Powerpoint
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/jisc-cni-2006/
August 3-5 Fiesole Collection Development Retreat, Lund, Sweden Speaker Powerpoint
September 27-28 JISC Open Access Conference, Keble College Oxford Attendee
October 18-20 Open Scholarship 2006, University of Glasgow Keynote Speaker Powerpoint
Programme: http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/openscholarship/programme.html
November 27 Brian Perry Memorial Conference Library Research 1985-1999 Speaker Powerpoint
November 29 Open Access Conference, Rome Speaker
December Online Information 2006, London Attendee
2007
March 15 Oxford Libraries Staff Conference Speaker
www.sconul.ac.uk/publications/newsletter/41/32.rtf
June 14-16 38th BIALL Annual Study Conference, Sheffield. Too Much Information! Speaker
--.11 Charleston Conference "What Tangled Webs We Weave Attendee
December 5 UUK Briefing: Research Information and Management Workshop Session Chair
2008
March 31-April 1 Bloomsbury Conference - Beyond Discovery. University College London Speaker
April 8-10 Networkshop 36, University of Strathclyde Speaker Powerpoint
April 10 UKOLN Thirtieth Anniversary, British Library Speaker
April 16-20 FEST Conference Trieste Speaker
http://www.openstarts.units.it/dspace/handle/10077/2600
May 8-10 Networkshop 36, University of Strathclyde Speaker
Programme: http://www.ja.net/services/events/2008/networkshop-36/Programmev21.pdf
June 3-5 9th South African Online Information Meeting Pretoria Keynote Speaker [Changing users: have they or should we?]
http://www.saoug.org.za/conferencenote.htm
June 26-27 SECOND BLOOMSBURY CONFERENCE ON E-PUBLISHING AND E-PUBLICATIONS Speaker
June 30-July 2 Forum on Interlending Conference [FIL], Peebles Speaker Powerpoint
July 10-11 7th JISC/CNI Conference, Belfast After Dinner
Programme: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/jisc-cni-2008/
September 10-12 Danish Research Library Association. Changing Roles of Academic and Research Libraries Keynote Speaker Powerpoint
November 5-8 28th Annual Charleston Conference. The Best of Times, the Worst of Times Speaker Powerpoint
2009
January 27 Swiss National Library, Bern. Library Talks Headlights on Dark Roads Speaker
February 13 Open Access Research Repository - What's in it for you? Universities Scotland Held at Stirling Speaker Powerpoint
University
March 11-13 UCISA Annual Conference, Liverpool Speaker
March19-20 Archives 2.0: Shifting Dialogues between Users and Archivists 19-20 March 2009, Manchester Marriott Victoria & Albert Hotel Speaker
June 6-7 RSC South West Summer Conference. Weston-super-Mare The Learner's Experience Speaker
July 28-30 Institutional Web Management Workshop 2009, University of Essex, Colchester Speaker Powerpoint
http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/
Blog post on http://www.lizazyan.com/iwmw2009-introduction-and-keynote-speech-overview/#comments
September 8-10 ALT-C 2009. 16th International Conference. Manchester Exhibitor
September 9-11 ALPSP International Conference. Oxford Belfry After Dinner Speaker
October 21-23 European Research Area Conference: Working Together to Strengthen Research in Europe, Brussels Delegate
October 29-30 3rd International Conference on Repository Libraries, Kuopio Finland Speaker Powerpoint
http://www.varastokirjasto.fi/Kuopio3/programme.htm
2010
March 11-12 Academic Librarian 2: Singing in the Rain, Hong Kong Keynote Speaker Powerpoint
http://www.lib.polyu.edu.hk/ALSR2010/Programme.html
April 1 Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access, Washington DC Speaker
http://brtf.sdsc.edu/symposium.html
reported at http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/04/02/preservation
April 8-10 12th Fiesole Collection Development Retreat, University of Leuven Speaker
Report: http://www.charlestonreport.com/2010/06/highlights/
April 26 e-journals are forever? Preserving and continuing access to e-journal content. British Library Speaker
May 6-8 Abolish Barriers:the role of libraries in an evolving Europe. Eblida Conference, Helsinki Speaker Powepoint
June 3 West of Scotland RSC. Best of the West, Glasgow Speaker Powerpoint
http://www.rsc-sw-scotland.ac.uk/BoW2010conference/programme.htm
July 1-2 8th JISC/CNI Conference, Edinburgh Attendee
Programme: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/Home/events/2010/07/cni.aspx
November 3-5 56th AIB Annual Conference, Florence Speaker
2011
August 11-18 IFLA Puerto Rico Speaker Powerpoint
2012
June 8 RSC Scotland Annual Meeting "Here be Dragons" RSC Scotland 2012 Speaker Powerpoint
June 15 Mel Collier retirement seminar. Leuven University Speaker Powerpoint
June 25-26 FIL Conference University of Worcester Speaker Powerpoint
June 28-30 5th International Conference on Information Law and Ethics. Ionian University, Corfu Speaker Powerpoint
September 26-27 Czech University Library Association 10th Annual Conference, Pardubice Speaker Powerpoint
November 7-10 Charleston 2012 "accentuate the positive" Speaker in debate
2013
January St Andrews University Staff Training Day Speaker
June 7 RSC Scotland Annual Conference Speaker Powerpoint
July 2-5 African Library Summit. The Horizon and Beyond. UNISA, Pretoria Poster
2014
February 25 Alicante. Succeed First Project Review Reviewer
2015
April 22-24 European University Institute, Fiesole Review
November 2-7 35th Annual Charleston Conference "Where do we go from here" Speaker
2018
March 28 Doha, Qatar LIA-Q 3rd Annual Conference Delivering the National Strategic Vision 2030 Speaker
March 29 Doha, Qatar Doha Institute of Graduate Studies, Public Lecture Speaker
July 3 JISC/JSTOR 20th Anniversary Meeting, Pembroke College Oxford After Dinner
2022
June 18 From Gujarat and Goa to Greenock. Scotland's Lascar Heritage Conference, Kelvin Hall, Glasgow