26 September 2011 Invitation: Asia Library Road show Dear valuable librarians, We cordially invite you to participate in our

Asia Library Road Show on 27 October 2011 in Singapore. As the worlds largest STM publisher, through the Road Show, we are going to analyze the development trend of usage on electronic resources as well as research papers submission in South East Asia. Apart from our analysis, a guest speaker from a library will be invited to share the experience in using electronic resources. Please note below details for your interest: Date: 27 October 2011 (Thursday) Time: 9am to 4pm Venue: Pan Pacific Hotel, Singapore Attached is the tentative agenda for your reference. Final agenda will be sent to you when all speakers are confirmed. We will be appreciated if you could confirm your participation by sending an email to mandy.sum@springer.com for participation by 10 October 2011. Thank you. Yours sincerely,

Springer Asia Limited

Agenda for Road Shows:

09:00.Registration 09:15 ............. Introduction & Agenda of the day (Juliane Ritt & Mabel Tang) 09:30 ............. Springer Update and the Strategy (Derk Haank) 10:15 ............. Usage Development Trends (Harald Wirsching) How number of citations and submission of local authors help university ranking 11:00 ............. Coffee Break 11:15 ............. Open Access (Wim van der Stelt) A short overview of developments in the markets, new ideas and changes at Springer 12:00 ............. Lunch 13:15 ............. Case Study from User An experience of decision making on purchasing and obstacles overcoming from a university library 14:00 ............. Workshop How to create awareness in libraries to users / patrons? 15:00 ............. Coffee Break 15:15 ............. SpringerReferences (Thomas Mager) Reference works published at the pace of scientific discovery 16:00 ............. End