Wednesday, 12th March
Start	End		Session type/Location	Speaker/Title of Paper	Session Chair
REGISTRATION FROM 09:00
13:00	14:15		Optional Lunch
14:15	14:30		Introduction & Welcome
14:30	15:15		Keynote Address Auditorum	Working differently: the role of learning technologies in the 21st Century, Dr.Iain Mac Labhrainn, Director, Centre for Excellence in Learning & Teaching NUIG
15:15	15:30		Questions
15:30 Tea/Coffee -- Exhibition viewing
16:00	16:45		Parallel sessions
			Parallel #1 Auditorum	Exploring the practicalities of implementing the hybrid library. (LIR: HEAnet User Group for Libraries) Patricia O'Donnell UL Stewart McKee UCD Niall McSweeney NUIG Questions and discussion	John Kennedy UU
			Parallel #2 Inishfallen Room	Enabling technologies - directories Shibboleth for authentication - Henry O'Keeffe UCC LDAP - Jason Doran NUIM Directories, LDAP, Authentication - Brian Carolan DCU Questions and discussion	John Boland, HEANET Ltd.
			Parallel #3 Mangerton Room	New challenges for the desktop Challenges in rolling out laptops to students - Charles Moriarty Smarter ways to deploy and manage the desktop - Michael Fegan UU Questions and discussion	Paul Murphy MIC
16:45	17:30		Plenary Auditorum	Videostreaming- Alan Collins QUB HEANET's multimedia services - Andy Byrne HEANET Questions and discussion	Robin Adams TCD
19:00 -- Drinks Reception: Exhibition Viewing
19:30 -- Dinner & Entertainment
Thursday, 13th March
09:15	10:15		Keynote Auditorum	Working differently : dealing with social exclusion and the information divide - Dr. Tom Collins, Director, Dundalk IT Questions and discussion	Helen Fallon NUIM
10:15	11:00		Parallel sessions
			Parallel #1 Auditorum	NUIM mobile computing project Linda Noonan and Liam Burbridge NUIM Experiences with compulsory ownership of laptop computers Eric Clarke RCSI Questions and discussion	Margaret Flood TCD
			Parallel #2 Mangerton Room	Enabling Technologies - Security Security policies and procedures at NUIG - Ron Owens NUIG Security zones at UL - James Hayes Commnet Questions and discussion	Paul Smith
			Parallel #3 Syndicate Room	Different ways of supporting business users Reports designed and written by user departments - deploying Business Objects in UCD - Emma Hurley UCD WEB reporting in the financial systems environment - Mark Martin NUIM Where next for business support systems - UCD's Aspire - Joyce Downey UCD Questions and discussion	Dan O'Shea NUIM
			Parallel #4 Inishfallen Room	Managed learning environments JISC funded managed learning environment - Greg McClure QUB Leveraging existing infrastructure for e-learning; alternatives to off - the - shelf systems - Bob Strunz UL Questions and discussion	Mary O'Riordan NUIG
11.00 -- Tea/Coffee. Exhibition viewing
11:30	12:15		Parallel sessions
			Parallel #1 Auditorum	Working differently : academic libraries in a local community - Ellen Breen DCU Academic libraries in the business community - Ciara McCaffery UL Questions and discussion	Marie Reddan NUIG
			Parallel #2 Inishfallen Room	Enabling Technologies - Wireless Wireless networking including - security implications - Sara McAneney The state of wireless LANs in Ireland - Ronan Skehill, Wireless Research Group UL Questions and discussion	Chair: Brendan Tolan DCU
			Parallel #3	Portals Staff portals - Niall O'Leary DCU Research systems / All Ireland portal - Ian Bell DCU Questions and discussion	Paul Butler UCD
			Parallel #4 Syndicate	Converged technology in teaching and learning and video conference space at UU - David Simpson UU Supporting lecture theatre technology - Paul Kelly UL Questions and discussion	Noel Wilson UU
12:15	13:00		Parallel sessions
			Parallel #1 Inishfallen Room	Updating session a) IRIS update - Fiona McGoldrick IRIS b) CHIU Working Group on Ebooks update-John Cox NUIG c) SPARCupdate - Paul Sheehan DCU	Pauline Corrigan UCD
			Parallel #2 Auditorum	Microsoft.NET - Ian Taylor Microsoft Questions and discussion	Robert Roulson QUB
13:00 -- Lunch
14:15	15:45		Parallel sessions
			Parallel #1 Inishfallen Room	Working differently in academic libraries : short presentations a) Staff training and development in a hybrid library - Lindsay Mitchell UL b) Placinglibrary education at the users' fingertips - Rosarii Buttimer UCC c) Maynooth's eprints archive - Suzanne Redmond Maloco d) New thinking on electronic theses - Geraldine McFeeley DCU e) The role of the small library in a consortium David Murphy, Walsh College Library, Detroit Questions and discussion	Beatrice Doran RCSI
			Parallel #2 Auditorum	Enabling Technologies. Web services. An example of a .NET service using SOAP for authentication - Martin Leonard UL Where do the boundaries lie? - John Mullen Version 1 Software Questions and discussion	Michael Nowlan TCD
15:45 -- Tea/Coffee
16:15	17:15		Plenary Auditorum	Working Differently: developing and managing service statements and performance indicators - Noel Wilson UU Questions and discussion	Martin Hayes UCC
19:00 -- Drinks Reception: Exhibition Viewing
19:30 -- Dinner & After Dinner Speech Professor Kevin Ryan, Vice President Academic and Registrar, UL & Entertainment
Friday, 14th March
09:30	11:00		Plenary Auditorum	Email Spamming - Michael Nowlan TCD Content Management - Ricky Rankin QUB Off campus access to ejournals using a proxy server - Stuart Rawson QUB Innovation in a legacy world - Andrew Gregg UU Appropriate Linking using the Open URL Framework - Peter Corrigan, NUIG Questions and discussion	Nigel Macartney UU
11.00 -- Tea/Coffee. Exhibition viewing
11:30	12:15		Keynote Auditorum	Keynote address: Planning for IT change and innovation in higher education Michael Zastrocky, Vice President / Academic Strategies, Gartner Group	Gordon Young UL
12:15	12:30		Thanks and handover to IUISC 2004 -- Gordon Young UL
12.30 -- Optional Lunch and end