Online Information 2006 Conference and Exhibition

A reminder that UKeiG members are entitled to a 25% discount off the delegate rate for the Online Information conference if you book before 3rd November, and 15% thereafter. The programme and booking form can be found at http://www.online-information.co.uk/ol06/conference.html.

If you can't make the conference there is plenty going on in the exhibition with free seminars in addition to the vendor stands. UKeiG committee members Karen Blakeman and Shaida Dorabjee will be giving presentations. UKeiG will be on stand 718.

As well as Online Information there is also the co-located event Information Management Solutions. You can register for the exhibition online at http://www.online-information.co.uk/promo/ex884

The event runs from November 28th -30th and is being held at Olympia, London.

eLucidate September 2006

The latest issue of eLucidate includes:

Public content: book review - ABC of Health Informatics

UKeiG members only:

Online

Essential updates on new online resources...[more].

Internet

Learning 2.0 – take on a challenge! by Susan Miles, Kingston University. More about Web 2.0, and a Library 2.0 self-directed learning program. [more]

Intranets

What constitutes a mature intranet: should it be based on the organisation’s internal needs? Martin White [more]

Public Sector News

Update on e-government, legislation, statistics... [more]

Meeting reports

Reports on the UkeiG meetings:

• Business Information on the Internet
• Desktop Search Tools – Managing the Flight Deck

and the JISC Access Showcase Day [more]

Current Awareness: members only

This issue covers Education, Information Access and Retrieval, Knowledge Management, Reference Services, Security and Web Design. [more]

Press Releases & News

News on OCLC, informaworld from Taylor & Francis, Trexy, Intute, SLA Europe Information Professional 2006 and UnityUK. [more]

Top 10 Search Tips

UKeiG members may be interested in the Top 10 Search Tips that arose out of a recent workshop that I ran on Advanced Internet Search Strategies at Manchester Business School. Participants were from the commercial sector, charities and the NHS and it turned out to be a very lively day. The group came up with an unusual Top 10, in particular number 1 which is "It isn't you!". All is revealed on my blog.

Karen Blakeman

Internet Librarian International 2006

Committee member and CILIP councillor Karen Blakeman is flying the UKeiG flag at the Internet Librarian International conference being held in London on October 16th-17th. Karen's talk on 'Out-Googling Google: Finding what Google Misses' is timetabled for the October 17th afternoon track on Internet Search Intricacies. Other speakers in the track are Stephen Arnold (What'’s New with Search), and Jenny Levine and Michael Stephens (Creating Communities, Interacting with Users).

The whole conference promises to be a real humdinger with Danny Quah from the London School of Economics kicking off the event with an opening keynote on The Knowledge Glut. Greg Notess, the man behind Search Engine Showdown, opens the second day with Reinventing Ourselves as Internet Librarians. Sessions include Web 2.0 and Library 2.0, Wikis and Social Software, Open Access Open Source, Digitisation Discoveries, Management techniques for Internet Librarians, e-Learning and Information Literacy, and Electronic Resources. As well as formal presentations there are case studies, discussion sessions and ample opportunity for networking with other delegates.

If you are a CILIP member there is a special 20% discount off the full two-day conference fee for CILIP members: £324.00 + £56.70 VAT. If not, then you'll need to get your skates on to qualify for the 22nd September deadline for the early bird discount: first person £395.00 + VAT; second person and all additional registrants £237.00 + VAT. After September 22nd the rates go up to £405.00 + VAT for the first person and £243.00 + VAT for additional delegates.

Venue: Copthorne Tara Hotel, London

Full details: http://www.internet-librarian.com/

UKeiG Intranets forum meeting: 26 September

UKeiG is running a free intranets forum meeting at Imperial College London on Tuesday 26th September, from 4-5.30pm. Mike Barrett from Imperial College London's Faculty of Medicine and Martin White of Intranet Focus will be speaking on the theme of intranets in the academic world.

Dr Mike Barrett - Managing an undergraduate medicine intranet: challenges and opportunities
Martin White - Herding chickens – some reflections on intranet implementation in the academic sector

Further details and directions are on the members' area of the UKeiG website at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/members/access/benefits.html

UK Serials Group publishes e-book

The UK Serials Group (UKSG) - the international group for people working with printed and electronic serials - is publishing a new e-book about the management of e-resources. The e-book will be updated constantly and will focus on ERM, and all other aspects of the rapidly changing scholarly communication process. Leading practitioners in the industry - including publishers and librarians - will be contributing chapters about theory and practice in the field.

For more information, please contact Graham Stone, Serials and Electronic Development Team Leader, at the University of Bolton, g.stone@bolton.ac.uk, tel +44 (0)1204 903099.

Discontinuation of UKOLUG domain names

The UK Online User Group changed its name in December 2004 to the UK eInformation Group (UKeiG). As part of this change the Group's web site URL was changed from www.ukolug.org.uk to http://www.ukeig.org.uk/. Until now, we have retained the UKOLUG domain names and redirected them to the new ukeig.org.uk site. However, we shall soon be discontinuing the use of the UKOLUG domains.

Could I ask all of you to:

1) Check your email contact/address books and ensure that you have Christine Baker, our admin person, as cabaker@ukeig.org.uk

2) Check any pages for which you are responsible and which may have links to UKOLUG/UKeiG. Please ensure that all links go to http://www.ukeig.org.uk/ or the relevant directory/file at ukeig.org.uk

Thanks

Karen Blakeman