New course available from UKeiG - Information Law

Information Law for Information Professionals: What you NEED to know about Copyright, Data Protection, Freedom of Information and Accessibility and Disability Discrimination Laws

To be held at: CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
Date: Tuesday, 19th February 2008, 9.30-16.30

Course Outline

In particular, four key legal areas currently affect the work of many information professionals in the digital environment - copyright, data protection, freedom of information, and disability discrimination and accessibility. This one-day introductory course will chart a path through the complexities of these subjects. Each area will be succinctly overviewed and the key aspects of the legal regime and requirements in each area will be outlined and explained. Delegates will be taken step-by-step through the fundamentals of each area. An understanding of each topic will be illuminated by real-life examples or scenarios explaining the application of the laws in a wide range of contexts. The day will also highlight the inter-relationships between each of these important areas of information law. There will be opportunities for discussion and exchanges of experience. The day will close with a presentation on how to manage actively legal compliance in these areas in an institutional or organisational context.

The sessions will include:

• Copyright: everything the information professional needs to know
• Copyright in action: scenarios and key issues in copyright in an electronic context
• Data protection: overview of the data protection regime for information professionals
• Data protection in action: specific issues in information, publishing and library contexts
• Freedom of information: outline of UK freedom of information laws (including Scotland)
• Freedom of information in action: compliance and making it work for information professionals
• Accessibility and disability discrimination law: overview of the legal regime
• Accessibility in action: key issues in provision of digital information and services to users
• Managing compliance with information laws in your organisation

Within each area a wide range of topics/problems will be used to shed light on the problems faced by information professionals, or how the laws can be used by them in appropriate contexts.

The course will be led by presentations but will include real-life problems and scenarios for discussion, and plenty of opportunity for questions and answers.

Who Should Attend

The course is relevant to anyone involved with the legal issues relating to the creation, storage, accessing, publishing or use of information. Anyone working with information, especially digital information, or who needs a sound grasp of the foundations of each of these areas will benefit from the Course. Those with responsibility for managing one or more of these areas in their organisation and who need a sound grounding in each of them will also benefit.

Course Presenter

Laurence Bebbington is Law Librarian and Information Services Copyright Officer at the University of Nottingham. He is a former Vice Chair of UKOLUG. He has presented papers or taken seminars on various aspects of legal issues in information work. He has published various articles and papers and is a joint editor (with C.J. Armstrong) and contributor to the 2nd edition of Staying Legal: A Guide To Issues And Practice Affecting the Library, Information and Publishing Sectors, FACET (2003).

Aerospace and Defence Libraries Group

Posted on behalf of the Commercial, Legal and Scientific Information Group (CLSIG)

An important message from the CLSIG Chair

CLSIG (formerly ICLG) has had a very active, lively and enthusiastic Sub-Group, the Aerospace & Defence Libraries Group - ADLG for a number of years. They believe that the time has come for ADLG to be a Special Interest Group of CILIP in their own right, and we - CLSIG - wholeheartedly support them in this aim. They will be far more visible, and will undoubtedly increase their membership considerably when they are shown on the CILIP Membership renewal forms as themselves. We believe that since they are a very specialised group - and not all working in commercial organisations - it is important that they should be in a position to get the recognition they deserve.

To become an independent SIG, CILIP requires 200 signatures from CILIP members (from any background, of any membership grade - simply CILIP members!) asking for this change. CILIP will not accept electronic signatures, so I have forms which I will send, either as e-mail attachments which you can print off, or by mail with return envelopes, to anyone prepared to assist by signing. If you would like to help ADLG and CLSIG, please ring me on 01803 839431 or e-mail me on oriole@legal-im.co.uk with your name & address. The form can be posted to Oriole Newgass, 9 Clarence Hill, Dartmouth, Devon, TQ6 9NX

The form asks for your name & CILIP membership number (if known). If you don't have the number to hand that's fine - just print your name clearly with your signature, and CILIP will locate your number. There is some urgency over this, as the motion to change the status of ADLG has to go before the last CILIP Council meeting. This means all signatures should be with them by mid-November at the latest. Thank you on behalf of CLSIG and ADLG for your help - we are very grateful.

Oriole Newgass, Chair CLSIG
4 October 2007

UKeiG at Online Information and IMS 2007

UKeiG will again be exhibiting at Online Information this year. The dates for your diary are December 4-6th, and the venue is the Olympia Grand Hall, London. We shall be on stand 734.

Co-located with Online Information is Information Management Solutions 2007. Details of both events and how to register are on the Online Information web site.

Online Information 2007 Conference – discounts for UKeiG members

Full details of the conference programme, which runs in parallel with the exhibition, are at http://www.online-information.co.uk/online07/conferenceprogramme.html. There are discounts for UKeiG members.

Register up to the 9 November 2007 for the Association Super Early Bird discount and save 25%. Super Early Bird price: £579 + VAT

Register after the 10 November 2007 for the special Association Full Delegate rate and save 15%. Full Association price: £655 + VAT. Further details are at http://www.online-information.co.uk/online07/conferenceprices.html

eLucidate Vol 4 No. 5 now available

eLucidate Vol 4 No 5 is now available at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/members/access/elucidate/index.html

An RSS feed of the table of contents is available at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/elucidate/elucidatetoc.xml and members can download a PDF of the current issue.

This month's issue has articles on:

Online Update from Johanna Westwood, University of Wales, Aberystwyth (Aberystwyth Online User Group). Includes news on JISC ticTOCS, Census, EBSCO, Elsevier& EMBASE Classic, ProQuest, Intute and Thomson Scientific.

RAE, Institutional Repositories and the Internet, by Susan Miles. How institutional repositories have impacted on preparation for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise

Intranets: Supporting collaboration with social networking software, from Martin White, Intranet Focus. How joint working can be implemented in organisations, using SharePoint, Notes, and other software.

Public Sector News from Jane Inman. Includes news on Power of Information, Digital Divide, Land Registry, Government websites, and Scottish Executive change of name.

Current Awareness. The usual collection of goodies and summaries of articles (print and electronic) about information access and retrieval, electronic publishing, preservation and virtual libraries etc.

Book Review: The complete guide to referencing and avoiding plagiarism

Meeting Report - Intranets Forum: Does your intranet meet accessibility standards?

Meeting Report - Managing New and Emerging Library Technologies: Skills for the 21st Century . Report of a meeting organised by the East Anglia Online User Group (http://www.eaolug.org.uk/), Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, 13 June 2007

Press Releases & News

ILI 2007 presentation

My ILI 2007 presentation (co-badged as UKeiG) will be going up on the ILI site soon, but meanwhile you can download a copy of the PowerPoint from my own web site at http://www.rba.co.uk/ili/ILI2007KarenBlakeman.ppt

I have added a slide, or rather re-instated a slide that I had deleted because of time constraints, as a result of a comment from Patrick Danowski after the presentation. It is the one showing Exalead's Wikpedia search interface and tag cloud. The interesting feature of the tag cloud is that the tags/keywords are colour coded depending on whether they are people's names, companies/organisations, geographical locations etc.

The slides are mostly screen shots so will not make much sense to those of you who were not at the presentation. I am planning to do some brief notes over the next couple of days and then possibly a full article based on the session.

P.S. Patrick Danowski experimented with 'Twittering' ILI 2007. Go to http://twitter.com/PatrickD to see the results. Interesting approach and a good way to capture all the keywords/phrases as they are being uttered rather than trying to to do a full blog posting that may not be published for several hours. Speakers beware! :-)

UKeiG Management Committee - call for nominations

At its meeting on 16 July 2007 CILIP Council agreed that all governance years within CILIP, including Groups and Branches, be harmonised on the calendar by 1 January 2009. The UKeiG Management Committee has agreed on harmonisation from January 2008. Nominations are therefore invited for election to the UKeiG Management Committee for the year 2008.

Nominations must be signed by the candidate, a proposer and a seconder, all of whom must be members or subscribing members of UKeiG. Nominees, proposers and seconders do not have to be members of CILIP except in the case of nominees for Honorary Officers (Chair, Vice-chair, Honorary Secretary, Honorary Treasurer). Each nomination should include a 50 word summary of the candidate’s relevant experience. This summary will be circulated to the membership in the event of a ballot being held.

The term 'member' refers to members of CILIP who are members of UKeiG. 'Subscribing member' refers to members of UKeiG who are not members of CILIP.

Nomination forms will go out with the next UKeiG mailing later this week but they can also be obtained from Christine Baker, Hon Sec UKeiG, Piglet Cottage, Redmire, LEYBURN, North Yorkshire, DL8 4EH. Tel & fax 01969 625751 e-mail: cabaker@ukeig.org.uk or from the webiste at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/about/nominations.html

Nominations must be sent via post or fax to Christine Baker, UKeiG Honorary Secretary by Friday, 2nd November 2007

Internet Librarian International starts

ILI kicks off on Monday 8th October with Stephen Abram's keynote on 'Next Generation Libraries: The 2.0 Phenomenon', and then moves on to parallel sessions covering 'The 2.0 Phenomenon' and 'Web Design and Usability'. The latter session starts with Martin White, well known to many UKeiG members, and Cokie Anderson talking about 'Search Results Pages and Usability Testing'.

You can still register for Internet Librarian International 'on site' at the Copthorne Tara Hotel, London. Full conference details are at http://www.internet-librarian.com/

If you are at ILI and blogging, flickring etc the 'official' tag is ILI2007

ILI Keynote - correction

As Marydee Ojala has pointed out in her comment to my earlier posting about ILI, the opening keynote at ILI next week will be given by Stephen Abram, President-Elect SLA, and SirsiDynix. The keynote will be "Next Generation Libraries: the 2.0 Phenomenon".

ILI starts on Monday 8th October and is preceded on Sunday 7th by several half day masterclasses. Details are on the ILI web site at http://www.internet-librarian.com/

Internet Librarian International starts next week

The 9th annual Internet Librarian International takes place in London on 8–9 October 2007 at the Copthorne Tara Hotel.

UKeiG are supporters of the event and will be at the exhibition, so drop by and say hello!

The new realities of electronic research affect every part of the work life of information professionals. This year’s theme, New Realities, Roles and Resources, reflects the upheaval in the profession and in the world of electronic information. As the internet and search become ingrained in the minds of not only information professionals but also of our clients, customers, patrons, users and other constituencies, we must constantly re-evaluate what we do and how we do it.

With emphasis on the practical rather than the theoretical, the speakers and exhibition address the new realities we face, suggest new roles we can play, and explore important new resources and tools we can immediately add to our information professional toolbox. By attending Internet Librarian International, you can learn vital insight and knowledge to help you excel at your job.

The final conference programme is available online.

You can also register online. Remember, there is a special discount for CILIP members.

See you in London!

Oxford University Goes Live with SFX

x Libris (UK) has announced that the SFX link resolver is now operational at the Oxford University Library Services (OULS). OULS has introduced SFX to manage the university’s large e-collection consisting of over 22,500 e-journals and an extensive collection of e-books.

They say that the service greatly reduces staff resources that were previously allocated to supporting e-resource management, so now the same library staff can focus on customizing SFX to conform to the unique workflows and look-and-feel guidelines of the OULS.

For additional information on the OULS, see www.ouls.ox.ac.uk
For additional information on Ex Libris Group, see http://www.exlibrisgroup.com

UKeiG Intranets Forum: 11th October, London

Intranet and Extranet case study: Qualifications & Curriculum Authority

Free informal intranets forum meeting for UKeiG members

To be held at: Qualifications & Curriculum Authority (QCA), 83 Piccadilly, London, W1J 8QA

Location: 100m from Green Park tube station, http://www.qca.org.uk/qca_9019.aspx

Date: Thursday 11th October, 2.30pm to 5pm

If you are involved in intranets and would like to meet your colleagues, this informal forum is for you.

Speakers:

Gavin Edwards, QCA's Intranet Manager will present their new intranet, looking at the business need for the redevelopment and talking through the development project.

Sue Mucenieks, QCA's Knowledge Manager will present their new "extranet" which facilitates collaborative working with external partners. Sue will talk about some of issues around setting this up.

Tim Parfit, Managing Director, Netcel Ltd who has worked in partnership with the QCA to deliver their internal and external websites will be talking about the projects they have worked on with the QCA including e-newsletters and improving website accessibility.

If you would like to attend this meeting, please contact: Helen Davies, Intranets Forum Co-ordinator for UK eInformation Group Email: helendavies@blueyonder.co.uk

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