ILI seeks speakers from UKeiG

Posted on behalf of Internet Librarian International

Internet Librarian International seeks proposals from the UKeiG community to speak at this year's conference - 14 & 15 October, London.

The deadline for submissions is extended until next Friday, 3 April. Further information from: http://www.internet-librarian.com/2009/speak.php

We're delighted that Internet Librarian International is once again supported by UKeiG.

Best wishes

Internet Librarian International

Licences and their negotiation

Venue and date
The City Suite, Thistle City Hotel, Barbican, London , EC1V 8DSThursday 24th September 2009, 9.30-16.30

Course Outline
This practical one day training event is designed to provide Information Professionals with an introduction to the licensing of electronic resources such as e books, e journals and abstracting and indexing services. This course has been designed to introduce the major components of such licences and why they are important, what are the issues that are likely to cause the greatest difficulty, and will introduce issues related to the fine art of negotiating.The sessions will include:

• What is a licence and why are they used?
• The main features of a licence
• Clauses that are likely to cause problems
• Negotiating styles
• Negotiating skills

The session will include practical exercises to assess participants’ negotiation style, and small group discussion of a sample licence

Who Should Attend
This workshop will be of benefit to Information Professionals in any type of organisation that have to negotiate licences with suppliers of electronic information

Presenter
Charles Oppenheim is Emeritus Professor and former Head of the Department of Information Science, Loughborough University. Previous posts in academia and the electronic publishing industry include working for The City University, International Thomson, Pergamon and Reuters. Charles is the author of "The Legal and Regulatory Environment for Electronic Information" and is a well-known authority on copyright having written many articles on the subject. He has been a member of JISC and served on some of its committees since 1992. He is currently a member of the JISC Scholarly Publishing Working Group and of the HEFCE/UUK Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights. He is a member of the Legal Advisory Board of the European Commission.

Costs (including lunch and refreshments):
UKeiG members £140 + VAT (£ 161.00); others £170 + VAT (£ 195.50)

Bookings
To book your place please use the booking form at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2009/September/Licenses.html or email Christine Baker at cabaker@ukeig.org.uk

FIL Interlend 2009 - Early Bird Reminder

The early bird discount ends on April 2nd - if you would like to take advantage of this offer, and haven't already booked a place please complete a Booking Form and return to Marian.Hesketh@Lancashire.gov.uk

Bookings are now open for the Forum for Interlending and Information Delivery (FIL) Conference 2009: Keeping It Simple: support, development & practicalities. 29th June - 1st July, Lancaster House Hotel, Lancaster.

Interlend 2009 will address key issues that are important to anyone working in interlending and document supply in the UK. The Conference programme is designed to appeal to residential and day delegates, and will feature a mix of presentations and break out sessions, with plenty of opportunity to network with colleagues and to share ideas. There will be topics of interest to public, academic and specialist library delegates.

Our speakers will include Terry Kendrick, who, after a career in public libraries moved to become an information and marketing planning consultant. Terry teaches consultancy, information and Internet skills and is a regular CILIP Course Leader. He will provide a formal presentation and break out sessions on Internet Search Techniques.

Once again, the venue offers comfortable on site accommodation, with the added bonus of close proximity to Lancaster's historic City. Venue Website: http://www.elh.co.uk/hotels/lancaster

Interlend 2009 Programme is below, further details, including an online Booking Form are on the FIL website http://www.cilip.org.uk/groups/fil . You'll also find further details on the Conference Wiki as the programme unfolds at: http://interlend.pbwiki.com/

If you have any queries please contact Marian.Hesketh@Lancashire.gov.uk

Web 2.0 in real life 21st April - place available due to cancellation - Update

Update 21 April 2009: This place has now been filled.

Event: Web 2.0 in real life
Venue: The Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool, 1 Brownlow Street, Liverpool
Date: Tuesday, 21st April 2009, 09.30 - 16.30

Due to a last minute cancellation a place has become available on the popular UKeiG Web 2 course run by Karen Blakeman. This course has been fully booked for some time and places are at a premium, so take advantage of this opportunity!

If you are interested in this course please contact Christine Baker direct:
Tel & Fax 01969 625751.
Email: cabaker@ukeig.org.uk

Course Outline

Find out how 2.0 applications are being used in libraries and information centres, and what actually works. Blogs, wikis, RSS? YouTube, podcasts, Slideshare? Flickr, Connotea, LibraryThing? Facebook, Second Life, Twitter? This workshop will look at the reality of 2.0: what is useful and what is destined for Gartner's 'Trough of Disillusionment', never to be seen again.

The workshop will start with a brief overview of Web 2.0 and what it means. It will then look in more detail at how 'stuff' can be used as sources of information, as a means of enhancing services to users, and raising the profile of information services. The areas covered will include:

• Blogs, wikis, RSS feeds
• Shared authoring tools
• Start pages e.g. iGoogle, PageFlakes, NetVibes
• Social bookmarking services
• Using YouTube and Flickr as information resources and to promote your group or organisation
• "Presentation" sites such as Slideshare and Authorstream
• Social networking sites e.g. Facebook
• To Twitter or not to Twitter

There will be a heavy practical element to the workshop so that participants can explore Web 2 and try out the technologies for themselves. There will be extensive notes and exercise sheets to guide participants through the day, and all the information and presentations will be available electronically.

Press Release: Innovation in e-Information Conference

UKeiG Conference: Innovation in e-Information - encouraging creative thinking and discussion amongst information professionals

The information industry is in a continual state of change and information professionals need to stay one step ahead of the game. On 16-17th June this year, UKeiG is hosting ‘Innovation in e-information’ in order to drive this agenda forward. This conference will provide information professionals with the opportunity to expand their skills and knowledge, explore issues of strategic significance and advance their professional development activities.

This major UKeiG event will bring together experienced practitioners to share and discuss the key issues of service delivery across all sectors, providing expert guidance and opinion. Active delegate participation will be key, with opportunities to discuss issues, share experiences and formulate innovative solutions in the breakout sessions. There will also be plenty of time for networking during the conference drinks and dinner.

UKeiG pride themselves on listening to their membership and providing what they need, so they have extended the early bird discount. By booking before the 9th April, the full two-day residential conference costs only £300 for members. (Other rates are available for non-members, and non-residential or single day attendance).

Speakers and topics include:
· Jan Wilkinson, Rylands University Library: Customer needs
· Richard Wallis, Talis: A new web of information
· Nic Price, Independent Adviser: User-centred web design
· Roger Mills, Oxford University Library: Digital images
· Laurence Bebbington, University of Nottingham: E-law
· Martin White, Intranet Focus Ltd: Risk management
· Ross Scrivener, Royal College of Nursing: Web 2 in action
· Hazel Hall, Napier University: Social computing tools

Breakout sessions will be topical, so may change, but are currently:
· Innovative search techniques
· Avoiding legal problems
· Increasing the value of your intranet
· Practical solutions for managing digital images
· The future of online publishing
· Information security


Notes to editors:

Full details of the conference and programme can be found at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/conf2009/index.html

UKeiG is a respected and well-established forum for all information professionals, users and developers of electronic information resources. UKeiG focuses on disseminating high quality advice, information and publications about e-industry news and developments; raising awareness of existing and new technologies that retrieve, manage and process electronic information; encouraging innovation in electronic information retrieval management and processing; and supporting continuing professional development by delivering a high quality portfolio of practical and affordable training programmes and seminars. Members can access UKeiG’s e-journal eLucidate and a series of popular factsheets. Full details can be found at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/

CILIP, the leading body for the information profession, has awarded UKeiG its prestigious seal of recognition in acknowledgement of its contribution to high quality training. See http://www.cilip.org.uk/qualificationschartership/seal/ for details.

UKeiG is a Special Interest Group of CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE. Registered Charity No.: 313014. For more details on CILIP please visit http://www.cilip.org.uk/


Megan Roberts
Research Consultant
Skype: meganjayneroberts

UKeiG Conference: early bird discount extended!

It is UKeiG's pleasure to announce that we have extended the early bird discount for the Innovation in eInformation Conference until 9th April 2009

We have been listening to what you have been saying to us and decided that, to provide as much help to your budgets as we can, we would extend the opportunity to attend this unique training opportunity at a discount. With full price rates at only £330 for members and £400 for non-members for the full, two-day, residential package, the further saving to be had by booking before the 9th April makes this conference superb value, with the full two-day residential rates of only £300 for members or £370 for non-members. Alternative rates are available for non-residential or single-day bookings.

We can also offer you the chance to request specific invoice dates - so if you need to be invoiced before or after a certain date to fit in with training budgets, we will do our best to help

About the conference:

Information Professionals have to be highly innovative if they are to support their organisations in delivering effective e-information services. This major UKeiG event brings together experienced practitioners in many fields of e-information to share and discuss issues on innovating and improving delivery of e-information services. Delegate involvement will be key, with opportunities to discuss future issues, share experiences and formulate practical, often innovative, solutions to emphasise the pivotal role of information professionals in driving, supporting and demonstrating effective information management.

This conference provides a unique opportunity to combine two full days of training with networking events in the evening - ensuring everyone who attends on the residential package will have the opportunity to speak to others who share their interests, and may just hold the answer to their problems - or at least be able to provide a helping hand!

Full details about the conference, the programme and how to book can be found at the website: http://www.ukeig.org.uk/conf2009/index.html or by emailing conference@ukeig.org.uk

We look forward to seeing you in June

Beating the credit crunch: preparing bids to secure additional funding

A new UKeiG Course

Venue: CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
Date: Tuesday, 30th June 2009, 9.30-16.30

Course Outline

This practical and participative one day training event is designed to provide Information professionals with an introduction to preparing bids to successfully secure additional funding. In today's economic climate and changing professional scene, your service may not have sufficient money, staff time, or expertise to support new activities. This course has been developed to help you write a compelling bid to convince potential funders to support your new endeavours.

The sessions will include

• Defining the 'project' to be funded
• Estimating realistic budgets, resources and timetables
• Writing compelling and convincing bids
• Exploring the types of funding available, with examples

Who should attend?

This workshop will be of benefit to Information Professionals working in middle and senior management positions in public and private sector organisations who want

• A better understanding of how to write successful bids
• More knowledge of potential funding sources
• An enthusiasm and greater confidence to bid for funding

Course Presenter: Mary Auckland
Mary is an independent consultant and trainer following a long career as a senior manager in academic libraries. She has considerable experience of producing successful bids and securing funding, and of assessing bids for bodies suck as the Joint Information Systems Committee.

Cost
UKeiG members £140 + VAT (£161.00); others £170 + VAT (£195.50)

To book your place please use the booking form at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2009/June/Preparingbids.html or email Christine Baker at cabaker@ukeig.org.uk