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:

• Waves of Innovation: signposts to a new web of information. Richard Wallis, Technology Evangelist, Talis (slideshare)

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.

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.

Intranets Forum: SharePoint in action

UKeIG members can find details of the July forum on the website.

There will be presentations by Linda MacDonald (Hay Group) and Janet White (Metropolitan Police).

The Intranets Forum is open to all members of UKeIG as one of their membership benefits.

Essential copyright for information professionals: what you need to know - and preparing for change!

Venue and date

University of Glasgow Library, Hillhead Street, Glasgow G12 8QE, Tuesday 15 September 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.

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).

Further details and booking form available on the UKeIG website.

Making conferences work for you

UKeiG members can download this brand new factsheet from the members-only section of the website.

Karen Gravett shares three easy steps to success for any conference, including the upcoming UKeIG conference.

Find out more about members-only content on the UKeIG website.

Making 'Search' work

Venue and date

The City Suite, Thistle City Hotel, Barbican, London EC1V 8DS
Tuesday 10 November 2009, 9.30-16.30

Course Outline

Many organisations are finding that the search application on their web site and intranet, or even a more comprehensive enterprise search, is not providing the expected benefits. Finding a solution to the problem is not easy as there are so many variables. Is the search engine unsuitable for the task, are expectations too high, or is the way that the search engine has been implemented not best practice?

The objective of this workshop is to help delegates analyse the nature of the problem that they are facing, and then to provide a range of solutions for consideration.

The main sections of the workshop will be

• Diagnosing search problems
• Understanding why and how people search
• The impact of content quality on search performance
• Google and SharePoint as search solutions
• Overview of commercial and open-source search engines
• Upgrade or replace – the options and issues
• Staffing the search team
• Developing a strategic plan for search

Who Should Attend

Intranet and web managers who already have implemented search, even at a basic level, and wish to gain an appreciation of how to either get more from the investment, or what is involved in upgrading or replacing the current application.

Presenter

The course will be presented by Martin White, Managing Director, Intranet Focus Ltd, who has evaluated SharePoint 2007 on behalf of a number of his clients and is writing a report on the use of SharePoint 2007 for intranet applications.

Further details and booking form available on the UKeIG website.

UKeiG Conference: Last few residential spaces available!

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

Dates: 16th-17th June, 2009

Venue: Manchester Conference Centre

There are only a few bedrooms left available for residential spaces for the UKeiG Conference in June, so if you want a residential space you'll need to book soon. There are still non-residential spaces available (we can provide some hotel suggestions if required) and one-day spaces available, but they are all quickly filling up, so make sure you don't miss out! This conference is great value, so make sure you don't get left out!

Those who are attending the whole conference will be able to enjoy the additional benefits of the conference drinks and conference dinner on the night of the 16th, where they will be able to mingle with other guests and speakers and network the evening away.

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, in addition to the top quality speakers who are on offer.

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
- 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, Edinburgh Napier University: Social computing tools

Breakout sessions will be topical, so they may change, but they 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

For further details and to book a place to http://www.ukeig.org.uk/conf2009/ or email conference@ukeig.org.uk

SharePoint in action: a UKeiG Intranets Forum 21st July 2009 - places limited

Venue: City Business Library, City of London, 1 Brewers' Hall Garden
(off Aldermanbury Square), London EC2V 5BX

Date & Time: Tuesday 21st July 2009 2.30 – 4.30 p.m.

"SharePoint in action" is a free informal Intranets Forum meeting for UKeiG members. There will be two presentations:

Making the most of MOSS: managing content through a global portal, by Linda MacDonald, Hay Group
Global Gateway is a MOSS 2007 portal accessed by Hay Group’s employees (over 2,000 staff in 86 offices across 49 countries). Linda will give a brief tour of the portal and highlight some of the key features.

Discussion Boards in SharePoint – some lessons learnt, by Janet White, Metropolitan Police
Janet will share her experiences of a ‘mini-project’ to move the MPS on-line discussion forums (Special Interest Groups) to SharePoint. This project presented some challenges with respect to the permissions needed for ‘members-only’ groups.

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

Please note that due to limited space, places will be restricted to one per organization.

UKeiG AGM and Call for Motions

UKeiG's 2009 AGM will take place on Tuesday 16th June at 17.00.

Venue: Manchester Conference Centre, Weston Building, Sackville Street, Manchester

Motions for the Annual General Meeting must be sent in writing via post or fax to Karen Blakeman, UKeiG Honorary Secretary:

Karen Blakeman, UKeiG Honorary Secretary,
Fax: +44 20 8020 0253
88 Star Road, Caversham, Berkshire, RG4 5BE

Motions must be signed by two members* or subscribing members* of the Group. Motions must reach the Honorary Secretary by Monday 1st June 2009.

*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.

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Karen Blakeman
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UKeiG is a Special Interest Group of CILIP
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Unofficial Cilip2 Wiki

If you are interested in following up the twitter and blog discussions on yesterday's open session on Web 2 at CILIP council (#cilip2), an unofficial wiki has now been set up on wikispaces:

cilip2unofficial http://cilip2unofficial.wikispaces.com/

Discussions are not limited to the topics covered yesterday: it looks as though it is going to be an area where information professionals can discuss all sorts of tools and approaches to using Web 2.0 in the workplace.

You will have to "sign up" but it is straightforward and worth doing. We're already having a discussion on the usefulness (or not) of Twibes :-)

Look forward to seeing more UKeiG members there.

Beating the credit crunch: Preparing bids to secure additional funding

There are places still available on UKeiG's new course, Beating the credit crunch: Preparing bids to secure additional funding

Venue: CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
Date & time: 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.

Further details and booking form: http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2009/June/Preparingbids.html

Student conference prize for UKeiG Conference 2009: Innovation in e-information

UKeiG 2009 Conference prize for UK based Library and Information Studies students

UKeiG are pleased to announce an exciting new Conference prize for one UK based Library and/or Information Studies student to attend the forthcoming 2009 UKeiG Conference on Innovation in e-information. The Conference, with up to 100 practising information professionals and industry experts, is being held on Tuesday 16th June - Wednesday 17th June 2009 at the Manchester Conference Centre. This is an opportunity for all information professionals, from students to senior management, to share, challenge and discuss topical issues on innovating and improving information services.

What the UKeiG 2009 Conference prize covers

The prize will enable one student to attend the Conference with all conference fees being covered, including accommodation. Standard class return travel costs (using public transport where possible and making use of reduced fare arrangements) will also be met. The winner will not only enjoy attendance at the conference, an opportunity to mix with industry experts, but also to write up the conference for publication in eLucidate, the Group's e-Journal.

Submission process for UKeiG 2009 Conference prize

Students should simply submit 150 words on what they think is the most innovative development in e-information and why. This should be emailed to ukeigstudentprize@ukeig.org.uk by 5pm on Friday 15 May 2009. Alternatively, tweet a link to your application using the tag #ukeig2009. The winner will be notified as soon as possible after 15th May 2009.

Applicants must state where they are studying and the course they are enrolled on. Submission for the prize is open to any UK based Library and Information Studies student on both first degree and post graduate qualification courses (whether taught or research based) which includes significant information handling content. The prize is only open to self-funding students who are not in receipt of another award, bursary or scholarship.

The UKeiG 2009 Conference : Innovation in e-information

This engaging Innovation in e-information Conference will provide delegates with a practical, no nonsense approach to sharing, challenging and discussing topical issues on innovating and improving information services. Keynote speakers, informative papers and highly participative
breakout sessions ensure an innovative conference on electronic information which will enable students to benefit from mixing and hearing experienced information practitioners in this informal setting.

Further details of the Conference are available at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/conf2009/index.html

eLucidate Vol 6 No, 2 now available

The latest issue of eLucidate volume 6 number 2 is now available at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/members/access/elucidate/

This month's issue includes:

Online
From Joy Cadwallader, Aberystwyth University
http://www.ukeig.org.uk/members/access/elucidate/elucidate_2009_6_2/online.html

Web 2.0 Round-up
Compiled and edited by Karen Blakeman
http://www.ukeig.org.uk/members/access/elucidate/elucidate_2009_6_2/web2roundup.html
Web 2.0 Round-up is a compilation of recent postings and comments on the UKeiG Web 2.0 blog at http://ukeig.wordpress.com/.

Intranets
Martin White of Intranet Focus looks at Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS07)
http://www.ukeig.org.uk/members/access/elucidate/elucidate_2009_6_2/intranets.html

Meeting Report: Intranets Forum
Report on Jennifer Smith's "How would a a librarian design an Intranet system" and Janet Corcoran's "Intranet Survey of Imperial College Library Staff Intranet"
http://www.ukeig.org.uk/members/access/elucidate/elucidate_2009_6_2/intranetsforum.html

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).
http://www.ukeig.org.uk/members/access/elucidate/elucidate_2009_6_2/current_awareness.html

Press Releases & News
TRANSFER Update
Proquest acquires RefWorks
Classical Research in the Digital Age
Polar Research Photos
Cornell University Library Expands Print-on-Demand Offerings
http://www.ukeig.org.uk/members/access/elucidate/elucidate_2009_6_2/press_releases.html

If you have forgotten your UKeiG user name and password please contact karen.blakeman@rba.co.uk

UKeiG Conference: Early bird discount ends today!

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

Dates: 16th-17th June

Venue: Manchester Conference Centre

This is a reminder that today is the last day that the early bird discount for UKeiG's Conference is available - so don't miss out on this fantastic discounted rate! Even at full price this conference is great value, but if you get your booking in today you will get the early bird discount, making it even better value!

Full details and a booking form are available at: http://www.ukeig.org.uk/conf2009/index.html

UKeiG Conference Early bird discount finishes 9th April - don't miss out!

This is a reminder that the early bird discount for UKeiG’s Conference is only available until Thursday – so don’t miss out on this fantastic discounted rate!

Even at full price this conference is great value, but if you book by 9th April you will get the early bird discount, making it even better value!

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

16th-17th June 2009

Manchester Conference Centre

By booking before the 9th April, the two-day residential conference costs only £300 for members. (Other rates are available for non-members, and non-residential or single day attendance - please see the website for full details: http://www.ukeig.org.uk/conf2009/index.html).

• 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

Book now at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/conf2009/index.html or by emailing conference@ukeig.org.uk to get your early bird discount!

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Workshop: Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 for Intranets and Projects

Workshop: Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 for Intranets and Projects
Venue: The City Suite, Thistle City Hotel, Barbican, London, EC1V 8DS
Date & Time: Thursday 21st May 2009, 9.30-16.30
Costs (including lunch and refreshments): UKeiG members £140 + VAT (£161.00); others £170 + VAT (£195.50)

Further details and booking form: http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2009/May/SharePoint.html

Course Outline

Many organisations with a strong commitment to Microsoft are moving to implement SharePoint 2007 (often referred to as MOSS07) as a general-purpose intranet/collaboration/document management application. As a result, intranet and web managers are increasingly under some pressure from their organisation to migrate their intranet to SharePoint 2007 and even defend why they feel it is not of benefit to the organisation to do so.

The objective of this workshop is to outline the benefits and challenges of SharePoint 2007 implementations so that intranet managers are better prepared to discuss these with colleagues in the IT department in developing a business case and implementation plan for using SharePoint 2007.

The main sections of the workshop will be

• An introduction to SharePoint 2007
• Supporting collaboration with SharePoint 2007
• Using SharePoint 2007 for intranet content management
• SharePoint 2007 search functionality
• Planning for a SharePoint 2007 implementation
• Working with Microsoft channel partners
• Future plans for SharePoint 2007
• Critical success factors

Who should attend

Intranet and web managers who are considering migrating from their current content management and collaboration applications to SharePoint 2007. No technical knowledge of SharePoint will be required.

Presenter

The course will be presented by Martin White, Managing Director, Intranet Focus Ltd, who has evaluated SharePoint 2007 on behalf of a number of his clients and is writing a report on the use of SharePoint 2007 for intranet applications.

UKeiG has the CILIP Seal of Recognition, which recognises high standards in the content and relevance of training courses. See http://www.cilip.org.uk/qualificationschartership/seal/ for details.