UkeiG course availability

There are still places left on some of our upcoming UkeiG courses, so book now to make sure you don't miss out!

The courses that still have availability are:
Image Management in Bio and Environmental Sciences: New Directions
Riding the waves or treading water? Confronting the challenges of a volatile electronic environment
RSS Blogs and Wikis – tools for dissemination, collaboration and information gathering
Coping with Copyright: Essential Copyright for Information Professionals
Coping with Copyright: Advanced Aspects of Copyright for Information Professionals
Developing and managing e-book collections

Don't forget that UKeiG members get discounted rates for all courses, and that if you've booked onto one Copyright course you'll get a 10% discount if you book on the other one!

To book onto any of these courses simply fill in the online form available through the links above, or contact Christine Baker:
Piglet Cottage
Redmire,
LEYBURN
North Yorkshire
DL8 4EH
Tel & Fax: 01969 625751
E-mail: cabaker@ukeig.org.uk

Intranets forum meeting - June 2007

Information architecture: how is your site structured?

Free informal intranets forum meeting for UKeiG members to be held at:

TUC, Congress House, Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3LS

Thursday 7th June 2007, 15.00-17.00hrs

Come and meet your intranet colleagues!

If you are involved in intranets and would like to meet your colleagues, this informal forum is for you. Mel Morey, the TUC’s Intranet Project Officer, will demonstrate the TUC’s intranet, looking at how content is structured, and drawing out some of the issues the TUC has experienced.

This will be followed by an open discussion on issues around:
content grouping, hierarchies, and navigation.

Come and hear other people’s experiences and share yours.

Location: 2 minutes walk from Tottenham Court Road tube station.
Map: http://www.tuc.org.uk/the_tuc/about_contact.cfm

If you would like to attend this meeting, please contact:
Helen Davies
Information Manager, Trades Union Congress
Intranet Forum Co-ordinator for UK eInformation Group
Direct line: 020 7467 1207
Email: hdavies@tuc.org.uk

If you are not a member of UkeiG, and would like to come along to these meetings, visit the UkeiG website: http://www.ukeig.org.uk/join/index.html for joining details.

CILIP: Arrangements for the first Council under new governance

You will all know by now that it is intended that the new governance 'regime' will begin on 1st January 2008; the corollary to this is that we need to have a new, new-style Council in place by that date. This will mean elections taking place in the Autumn of this year.

These elections will be arranged by the current Council under the transitional powers available to it in the revised Bye-laws.

However, in the event that the AGM does not approve the new Bye-laws necessary to effect the new governance structure, the existing Council is able to, and will, continue until March 2008.

CILIP Governance Implementation Group News

The Governance Implementation Group had another meeting last week and we can now report on progress:

1. The agreed text of the new Royal Charter and Bye-Laws have been endorsed by Council and will be sent to Privy Council in the next few days for 'approval in principle'. They will then be presented to the CILIP AGM on Members Day (Oct. 18).
2. Regulations. We are currently working with the lawyers on draft regulations which we shall bring to Council in July.
   
3. Policy Forum. The specification for the Policy Forum has been drawn up and agreed and will shortly be sent out to Branches, Groups and Home Nations for consultation/comments. The GiG will be asking for responses by the end of May.
4. GiG has previously agreed to recommend to Council that a Remuneration Panel should be established. This falls in line with our principles of transparency and accountability and will deal with processes related to salaries and appointment of senior staff - thus ensuring that no individual member of staff is directly involved in making decisions about their own remuneration. A draft remit has been drawn up now, and a final version prepared by the lawyers will be presented to Council for consideration in July.
5. Council has already agreed the harmonisation of the CILIP governance and financial years - it is now proposed to harmonise the SIG, Branch and Home Nations' years as well. This recommendation will be taken to Council in July, with the suggestion that this should be in place by January 2009 - one year after the CILIP-years harmonisation.
6. At our next meeting, the GiG will begin working on three key areas: communications, training (for trustees, forum members, etc), and costs.
   

The GiG - as I said in my first message - is committed to engaging with the membership at large, and with all Special Interest Groups, Branches and Home Nations on every aspect of the transition into the new governance. I hope that you all feel that appropriate channels are open to you, both to keep up-to-date on what is happening on this front, and to contribute to the process.

Report on March Intranets Forum Available

Dion Lindsay's report on the March Intranets Forum is now in the members' area of the UKeiG web site. Meg Pratley has kindly agreed to make her slides available and these are also in the members area.

Details of the next forum on Thursday 7th June, to be held at the Trades Union Congress (TUC), are on the Intranets Forum page. The theme will be Information Architecture.

Intranets Forum meeting - March 2007

The UKeiG Intranets Forum held last month at the Royal College of Nursing focused on planning your intranet strategy. A meeting report will appear in the next edition of eLucidate. As a taster, here are some points noted on flipcharts during the discussion part of the meeting.

Reasons why some of the attendees didn't currently have a strategy:
Lack of resources
Other priorities
Lack of an e-communications manager
Confused ownership of the intranet

What should be in the strategy document?
Reflect organisational issues
Reflect the culture or create a new culture
Where are we now and where are we going
Define content to be included on intranet
Performance/improvement measurables e.g. paper saving targets
Resources required to deliver developments

For acceptance of a strategy
Board champion
Steering group

Length
Keep in short! So readable

Next meeting to be held on Thursday 7th June at the TUC offices, Great Russell Street, London. WC1B 3LS. The theme: information architecture. Details to follow very soon.

CILIP Governance Implementation Group: Draft Charter and Bye-laws (2)

Colleagues will be pleased to learn that at yesterday’s meeting, CILIP Council discussed the proposed Royal Charter and Bye-laws which the Governance Implementation Group, together with CILIP’s lawyers, has drafted to enable the changes to governance. Following a short discussion, Council agreed the draft which will now – shortly – be sent to Privy Council.

In presenting the draft documents to Council, I noted that our aims in developing them were in line with those of the Task Force report: to provide greater simplification and transparency; and to facilitate the new governance structures and e-governance.

Thanks were also minuted to both Guy Daines and the CILIP lawyers for the huge amount of hard work covered in a relatively short time.

UKeiG at Umbrella 2007

UKeiG is hosting a seminar at Umbrella 2007, following requests from members for a succinct and relevant review of the Web 2.0 developments and the implication for librarians and information professionals. Who better to take us on this journey than Phil Bradley, Information Specialist and Internet Consultant, who is well known amongst the profession and promises an enlightening and challenging session.

Venue and date

De Havilland Campus, University of Hertfordshire
Thursday 28th June 2007 15.30 – 16.45

Further details are available on our web site training pages.

Annual Seminar: Riding the waves or treading water, London

UKeiG announces its Annual Seminar to be held on 13th June 2007:

‘Riding the waves or treading water? Confronting the challenges of a volatile electronic environment’

Bloomsbury Suite, Brunei Gallery, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street,
Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Wednesday, 13 June 2007 Wednesday, 9.15 – 16.30

The UKeiG Annual Seminar brings together a group of experts to share with us some of their thoughts on key issues for the information professional. This year the topic focuses on the constantly-changing technologies and offers insight on how to keep professionally aware in this challenging environment. Non-members as well as members of UKeiG are welcome. There will also be a short AGM for members only at 13.50 pm.

Seminar Outline

The aim of the day will be to highlight and discuss key pressure points on e-information professionals at a time when rapidly changing technologies are forcing us to make tough decisions on service prioritisation. Every day we face new innovations in IT and information retrieval, and it is increasingly difficult to see the wood for the trees. What resources will have the most relevance and impact on business processes and stakeholders in your workplace; which others are hype?

A new generation of internet savvy professionals and information consumers are coming to the workplace with a very different skills set and interpretation of the digital landscape. How do we develop our training, support and resource delivery tools to accommodate this new generation? Similarly, what CPD strategies and directions for personal development should we consider to ensure that we retain our visibility and relevance in increasingly complex knowledge organisations?

Who should attend

This seminar is open to non-members as well as UKeiG members. The programme will interest and engage information professionals from all sectors and with all levels of responsibility. It will be of equal interest to students studying library & information science as librarians, information specialists, managers and those responsible for LIS recruitment, budgets and IT.

Speakers include:

Peter Godwin. Academic Liaison Librarian at the University of Bedfordshire.

Sue Hill. Managing Director of Sue Hill Recruitment.

Jan-Martin Lowendahl. Research Director, Gartner Research.

Val Skelton. Head of Training and Learning at TFPL Ltd.

Programme

9.15 Coffee and Registration

9.45 Introduction. Gary Horrocks (UKeiG Chair), Research & Learning Liaison Manager, King's College London

10.00 Emerging IT trends and tools to deal with hype, maturity and alignment. Dr. Jan-Martin Lowendahl Research Director, Gartner

11.00 Coffee

11.30 Digital natives hit the workplace: fodder for digital culture wars? Dr. Jan-Martin Lowendahl Research Director, Gartner

12.10 Information professionals: swimming upstream, or going with the flow. Sue Hill, Managing Director, Sue Hill Recruitment

12.50 Lunch

13.50 UKeiG AGM

14.20 Who is managing information? Val Skelton, Head of Training and Learning, TFPL Ltd

15.00 Tea

15.20 Information Literacy in the Age of Amateurs. Peter Godwin, Academic Liaison Librarian, University of Bedfordshire

16.00 Panel Discussion Chair: Gary Horrocks

16.30 Close

Costs (including lunch and refreshments): UKeiG members £80 + VAT (£94.00); others £100 + VAT (£117.50)

To register your interest in this seminar, reserve a place, or request further details, please email meetings@ukeig.org.uk. Further details are also available via the UKeiG website.