Sunday, June 21, 2009

Conference presentations available

Thanks to all the attendees and speakers who made our conference such a success. We've received copies of presentations from most of the speakers, so you can access and / or download the following PowerPoints from the website:

  • Opening Keynote - E4Enterprise: understanding your customers' future needs / Jan Wilkinson, University Librarian and Director of the John Rylands University Library Manchester
  • Stag hunts and stories: making Web 2.0 matter to people / Ross Scrivener, Programme Manager, Royal College of Nursing
  • Using a risk management approach to build successful e-information business cases /Martin White, Managing Director, Intranet Focus Ltd.
  • Information security: key issues for the information profession / Lucy Burrow, Head of IT policy and process, ISS, King's College London
  • Breakout Topic 6 - The future of online publishing: are we leading the way? Facilitator: Nick Evans, Chief Operating Officer, Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)
  • Closing Keynote - When social means business: the potential of social computing tools to support collaborative work as part of the organisational information infrastructure / Hazel Hall, Reader, School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University

Richard Wallis's presentation is available on slideshare:

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Sunday, June 14, 2009

eLucidate 6(3) available now

Members can access and / or download the latest issue of eLucidate from the website.

Contents

Online
From Joy Cadwallader, Aberystwyth University

Intranets
Martin White of Intranet Focus on the way news is handles on intranets

Current Awareness
This column contains summaries of articles (print and electronic) about information access and retrieval, electronic publishing, preservation and virtual libraries etc. including, with permission, abstracts identified with an * next to the author initials, drawn from Current Cites, the monthly publication distributed electronically by a team of Librarians and Library Staff and edited by Roy Tennant (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites).

Public Sector News
Jane Inman (Warwickshire County Council) on the latest news for the public sector.

Books for Review
Members can volunteer to review the books on this list

Press Releases & News
The latest press releases that have been sent in.

Sharepoint in Action
Register for the next Intranets Forum on 21 July 2009

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

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Thursday, June 04, 2009

AGM papers available

The 31st Annual General Meeting will be held at 17.00 on Tuesday, 16th June 2009 in the Manchester Conference Centre, Weston Building, Sackville Street, Manchester.

Members can view and download the papers for the AGM from the website.

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