Lots of Goodies at Internet Librarian International, London

There is still time to book for Internet Librarian International, which starts on October 8th and runs for two days. The venue is the Copthorne Tara Hotel, London. If you are a member of CILIP there is a 20% discount off the full two day conference.

Further details at http://www.internet-librarian.com/

You can also still book for the pre-conference half day Masterclasses being held on October 7th.

UKeiG is a a supporter of the event and UKeiG committee member Karen Blakeman [yes, me] will be presenting a session on Tuesday morning on 'What the Search Engine are up to Now'. And there are some interesting developments - or what a few people might call skulduggery!

There are also a series of networking dinners on the evening of Monday 8th if you want to do something more interesting than eat in the hotel restaurant and would rather make new friends. Details are on the ILI web site, or you can sign up when you arrive at the conference.

The pre-conference workshops are:

• Using Blogs Effectively within Your Organisation
• International Business Information Resources
• Repositories and Digital Initiatives
• Communicating, Influencing and Negotiating for Results: The Human Face of Collaboration

As for the conference itself, Stephen Arnold kicks of the event with an Opening Keynote on 'Next Generation Libraries: the 2.0 Phenomenon' and Phil Bradley closes the conference with 'Facing the Challenge of Web 2.0 as a Disruptive Technology'. In between there is a plethora of excellent presentations and case studies. To list all of the presentations would just subject you to information overload, but the session titles are:

• The 2.0 Phenomenon
• Web Design and Usability
• Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Virtual Libraries
• E-Learning and Teaching
• Federated Search
• Information Management
• Information Search and Discovery
• Electronic Resources
• Digitisation

Further details are on the ILI web site at http://www.internet-librarian.com/, or UKeiG members can refer to the ILI brochure that was sent out in the last mailing to members.