UKeiG AGM - Motions

The UKeiG AGM will be held on June 12th 2008 in the Bloomsbury Suite, Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG. Time:13.45.

If a member wishes to put a motion to the meeting, notice of the motion must be made in writing, signed by the member, and delivered to the Group Honorary Secretary, Karen Blakeman by Wednesday, 14th May 2008.

Honorary Secretary contact details:

Karen Blakeman
88 Star Road
Caversham
Reading
Berkshire
RG4 5BE
Tel: 0118 947 2256
Fax: 020 8020 0253
email: karen.blakeman@rba.co.uk

eLucidate Vol 5 No 2. March 2008 now available

The March issue of eLucidate is now available at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/elucidate/. Please note that most of the articles are available to UKeiG members only.

This month's contents include:

10 Top Tips for Marketing your Intranet. Janet Corcoran

Web 2.0 Round-up. Karen Blakeman. A new regular column summarising postings and news from the UKeiG Web 2.0 blog at http://ukeig.wordpress.com/

Online. This month's column from Joy Cadwallader covers BBC Motion Gallery, Ebrary, Emerald, Harvard University, JISC, OCLC, OVID, Oxford University Great War Archive, ProQuest, Reed Elsevier, Thomson Scientific,

Internet - What's that coming over the hill?. Susan Miles comments on the fifth "Horizon Report" by the New Media Consortium.

Reference Management and e-Publishing. Tracy Kent looks at referencing and the coat of many colours, or how open are your references?

Public Sector News. Jane Inman.

UKeiG Intranets Forum meeting report, 5th February 2008. Deanne Mitchell.

Meeting Report: Information Law for Information Professionals. Karen Blakeman

Current Awareness. Summaries of articles (print and electronic) about information access and retrieval, electronic publishing, preservation and virtual libraries etc.

Press Releases & News: Update on DRIVER; CLOCKSS Works

User name and password

Please contact Karen Blakeman if you have lost or forgotten your user name and password.

Corporate/Institutional members

Please contact Karen Blakeman if you are a corporate or Institutional member of UKeiG and require access to eLucidate by IP address.

Internet Librarian International - Final Reminder

The deadline for submitting a request to speak at Internet Librarian International, to be held in London on 16-17 October, has been extended to April 4th. The conference is Thursday-Friday this year, with pre-conference events on Wednesday. Further details of topics and themes, and information on how to submit a paper, are at http://www.internet-librarian.com/

Business Information on the Internet - repeat workshop

The UKeiG Business Information workshop being held on April 2nd is now full but is being repeated on April 8th. There are a few places still available.

Venue: Kings College London, Guy’s Campus, London Bridge, London

Date and time: Tuesday, 8th April 2008, 9.30 – 16.30

Course outline:

This one day workshop looks at key sources of business information available on the Internet. It will compare what is available for free with pay-as-you-go and subscription services, and highlight quality, coverage, functionality and price.

Topics to be covered include:

• key starting points, evaluated listings and portals
• company information, including information on SMEs
• directories and marketing resources
• news, blogs, alerts and RSS
• official statistics and market data
• key search techniques

Throughout the day, there will be practical sessions during which you can work through exercises or try out your own research. Each delegate receives a comprehensive set of notes. The workshop will benefit anyone who plans to use, or already uses, the Internet for gathering business information.

Course Presenter: Karen Blakeman

Further details and a booking form are available at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2008/April/BusinessInformationLondon20080408.html