Essential Copyright for Information Professionals

What You Need to Know - and Preparing for Change!

Further information at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2009/March/EssentialCopyright2009-03-17.html

Venue: CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Date: Tuesday, 17th March 2009, 9.30-16.15

Course Outline

Copyright remains one of the most challenging legal issues for information professionals in all areas of the information industries. This one-day introductory course will chart a path through the complexity of the subject. It will cover all essential aspects of copyright and associated rights. Delegates will be taken step-by-step through the fundamentals of copyright. Woven into the sessions will be the latest information on forthcoming changes to UK law on copyright and how you need to understand and prepare for them now. Understanding of each topic will be illuminated by real-life examples of copyright issues. Examples will be drawn from a wide range of contexts.

The sessions will include:

• Copyright - what is it, how does it arise and how long does it last?
• Ownership of copyright
• Categories of copyright works
• The rights of the copyright owner
• Permitted acts and exceptions to copyright
• Database right
• Moral rights
• Licensing schemes for education, commercial and business organisations
• Overview of copyright in the digital environment
• The Gowers Review - Planning for Change: a special, dedicated session on how the likely reforms to UK law currently under implementation from the Gowers Review will affect you, and how will you benefit. What do you need to be doing now?

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

Copyright is relevant to anyone involved in 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 copyright will therefore benefit from the Course.

Course Presenter

Laurence Bebbington is Faculty Team Leader (Social Sciences, Law and Education) and Information Services Copyright Officer at the University of Nottingham. He has presented papers and led 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).

For more information or to book a place on this course, please visit www.ukeig.org.uk or email meetings@ukeig.org.uk

Launch of the World’s First Intranet Media Channel

Free Guest Passes for the Launch Programme

The Intranet Benchmarking Forum (IBF at www.ibforum.com), an exclusive, confidential intranet and portal benchmarking group of leading European, US and global organisations, is launching the world’s first dedicated intranet media channel, Intranets Live (www.intranetslive.com) on 4th November 2008.

“Intranets Live has been created following the run-away success of IBF 24, the 24-hour online intranet innovation that took place in June" said Paul Miller, chairman of the IBF. “That day proved to be the world’s largest corporate gathering on the web with more than 700 intranet professionals from 25 countries participating. Not only did we receive universal support and appreciation for IBF 24, but we also found that many of the participants were very keen to see more regular events of this nature. So, in order to meet this demand, we’ve created the world’s first intranet media channel where participants can join the world’s global intranet community live every month.”

Intranets Live, which even before its launch has already attracted more than 300 annual subscribers from some of the world’s leading private and public sector organisations, goes live for the first time at 3pm GMT on November 4th 2008. It will run for two hours and will then broadcast at the same time on the first Tuesday of every subsequent month.

Intranets Live participants will be able to see and experience the best intranets, hear from leading industry figures and network with their peers worldwide. Because Intranets Live is delivered via Microsoft Live Meeting 2007, participants can watch and listen to great content and feed in their own comments and questions live - without even leaving their desk!

Free Guest Passes

Free guest passes are available for the launch programme on November 4th, which will be co-hosted by the IBF’s Paul Miller and Jagesh Dattani of PricewaterhouseCoopers and highlights will include:

• A live intranet tour by Kellogg's followed by a phone-in Q&A Studio guest Shiv Singh from Avenue A Razorfish in New York
• The Intranet Doctor: He’s there to heal your intranet pain!
• A day in the life of intranet manager (Catherine Murphy, Capital One)
• The TechWatch interview with David Sacks from Yammer will look at ‘how to get business value from Twitter’

The IBF is the world’s leading intranet and portal benchmarking group and is acknowledged to have established industry standards for intranet and portal performance. It has more than 70 annual members globally (all household names) including the BBC, BT, Citi, HSBC, ExxonMobil, JP Morgan Chase, Kellogg's, Orange, PWC, Unilever and Bank of England. The IBF has offices in London, New York, Zurich and Sydney and recently hosted IBF 24 – 24 hours of intranet innovation online – with 700 delegates joining globally. This was the largest ever corporate gathering on the web.

For further information please contact:

Fraser Butters at Pervasive PR on +44 (0)7766 566396 or
fraser@pervasivepr.com

Or

Paul Miller at the IBF on +44 (0) 20 7435 6606 or +44 (0)7785 255883 or
paul@ibforum.com at www.ibforum.com

Intranets Forum: Knowledge Management at the Environment Agency

Free informal Intranets Forum meeting for UKeiG members to be held at:

Environment Agency
Rio House
Waterside Drive
Aztec West
Almondsbury
Bristol
BS32 4UD

Friday 12th December 2008 2.30 – 4.30 p.m.

There will be two presentations:

Making Easinet easier: making the Environment Agency's intranet work for our staff - Laura Sambrook, Interactive Content Manager

New initiatives in knowledge management in the Environment Agency - Liane
Bradbrook, Senior Systems Advisor

Tea and mince pies will be provided!

Location
Maps and travel instructions are available as a PDF. If a number of attendees can arrive at Bristol Parkway station together, collection by taxi can be arranged; when booking please indicate whether you would like this service. Please note that Rio House operates a very restricted parking system, so we can only provide spaces for disabled delegates.

Bookings
If you would like to attend this meeting, please contact: Janet Corcoran, Imperial College London j.m.corcoran@imperial.ac.uk

Further details of the meeting are in the UKeiG members' area of the web site.

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

Don't forget the UKeiG Conference 2009 - a residential forum that provides opportunities for information and IT professionals to network, wine and dine in excellent social surroundings while catching up on the very latest developments in e-information.

'Innovations in e-information - the UKeiG 2009 Conference' will be held at the Manchester Conference Centre from Tuesday 16th - Wednesday 17th June 2009 - put it in your diary now!

Reminder: UKeiG - election to management committee

A reminder that if you wish to be nominated for election to the 2009 UKeiG management committee we must receive your nomination form by Friday 31st October, 2008.

Further details and a nomination form are on the UKeiG web site at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/about/MCNominations2009.html

Forms should be sent to:

Karen Blakeman, Honorary Secretary UKeiG,
88 Star Road
Caversham
Berkshire
RG4 5BE

mailto:karen.blakeman@rba.co.uk
Telephone: 0118 947 2256
Fax: 020 8020 0253
Mobile: 07764 936733

Reminder: UKeiG Management Committee - Call for Nominations

A reminder that nominations are invited for election to the UKeiG Management Committee for 2009. If you want to help shape the future of UKeiG, do stand for election to the committee. If you are not quite sure about what is involved, get in touch with me, Karen Blakeman at karen.blakeman@rba.co.uk.

You do not have to be a member of the committee to contribute to UKeiG. If you have an idea or a project in mind, or have suggestions for meetings or workshops that you think would benefit UKeiG members, do contact us. The current management committee are listed at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/contact/index.html

Details and a nomination form for the committee can be found at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/about/MCNominations2009.html

Closing date for nominations is Friday, 31st October 2008.

ILI pre-conference workshops

Date: Wednesday, 15th October 2008
Venue: Novotel, London West, London, UK
Internet Librarian International 2008

Ulla de Stricker: Making the Business Case
The inherent and continuing challenge for information professionals is how to demonstrate your contribution to your organisation’s bottom line. Ulla de Stricker shows you how to make the best business case for your department.

Marydee Ojala & Ran Hock: WebSearch Update
Your knowledge of alternative search engines and your search skills are what set you apart from other searchers in your organisation. Learn the latest tricks, techniques and developments in web search from Ran Hock and Marydee Ojala

Jose Castillo: Planning, Building and Launching a Podcast
A hands-on experience of planning, building and launching a podcast with Jose Castillo. Learn how to use podcasting tools and create a real podcast during the workshop.

Michael Casey & Michael Stephens. Transparency, Planning & Change:See-Through Libraries
Michael Stephens and Michael Casey talk you through library transparency, planning and change. What emerging trends are set to change your information service? Make your library more transparent and change-responsive with this valuable road map leading to the hyperlinked Library.

Ann Chapman & Marieke Guy: Using Blogs Effectively Within Your Library
The potential benefits of blogging in a library context have been widely discussed. UKOLN’s Marieke Guy and Ann Chapman help you overcome barriers to establishing a blog, guiding you through setting up and using a blog and measuring its success.

Marshall Breeding. Open Source Integrated Library System: A Reality Check
Vanderbilt University's Marshall Breeding presents open source ILS options and sets out the questions you should ask and the expectations you should have when making decisions between open source and traditionally licensed automation systems.

The full programme is at http://www.internet-librarian.com/2008/day.php?day=Wednesday and registration at https://secure.infotoday.com/ILI/register.asp