UKeiG Annual Seminar. Getting the source out of the bottle: Practical implementation of open source applications in the information sector

At the Bloomsbury Suite, Brunei Gallery, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
on
Wednesday, 16th June 2010

Seminar Outline
Free open source software is becoming more popular in the information sector, but how good is it for the services we offer? How easy is it to really use the open source software to support and deliver library and information services to our customers? As well as benefits such as cost and flexibility, there is a real opportunity for professionals to use their knowledge of their users' needs to proactively and collaboratively shape software development - rather than being passive consumers of new technologies and products. This kind of partnership with open source communities can be empowering as it is about ongoing improvements and customisation, rather than just implementing a finished end-product. Whilst not without its drawbacks, this approach also challenges traditional business procurement models. But how do you practically implement open source software in the workplace? The aim of the day will be to highlight and show case open source technologies, focusing on case studies from across the electronic information sector which show how to lead rather than follow in an open source environment.

Who should attend
The programme will interest and engage information professionals from all sectors who wish to understand what open source software offers, as well as those with responsibility for leading the introduction of open source software.

Speakers include:
Phil Bradley is an information specialist and well-known Internet Consultant. He runs courses on various aspects of the Internet, is a webpage writer and designer, is the author of several books about the Internet and speaks on various Internet-related subjects at conferences. Phil is also is a SEO (Search Engine Optimiser) and uses appropriate software to do this including free and open source.
Ken Chad has over 20 years' experience in the global library systems business and has worked with a wide range of academic, research, college, public, corporate and national libraries throughout the world. Ken Chad Consulting was set up in 2007 and activities encompass technology and strategic issues for libraries and organisations working with libraries. His projects have included work with JISC, the Research Information Network and SCONUL as well as individual academic and public libraries. He has presented and written on open source for libraries and in 2009 co-organised 'Breaking the Barriers', the UK's first conference devoted exclusively to open source solutions for libraries.
Matthew Hale is the Online Services Librarian at The King's Fund. He has worked with library systems for over 15 years, He has worked with Library systems for over 15 years, and has developed in-house information products and solutions based on open source tools such as MySQL and PHP. He was enthused by the development potential and flexibility of an open source library management system and The King's Fund worked with support company PTFS Europe on the implementation of Koha which went live in January 2010.
Mark Hughes is Head of Collections at Swansea University. His current duties include management of finance, collections and library systems. He commenced involvement with open source systems in late 2008, when as Project Manager, he championed the decision to utilise VuFind to provide shared resource discovery across a partnership of three Welsh Universities which comes to fruition in March 2010.


Further details, including timetable and booking form to follow on the website. To make a booking in the meantime, please contact Christine Baker:
Piglet Cottage, Redmire, Leyburn, North Yorkshire DL8 4EH.
Tel & Fax 01969 625751.
Email: cabaker@ukeig.org.uk

2009 Tony Kent Strix Award winner

The 2009 Tony Kent Strix Award winner is Carol Ann Peters

The Tony Kent Strix Award, given by the UK eInformation Group of CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, has been awarded to Carol Ann Peters of Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologia dell’Informazione “A. Faedo”.

Carol was nominated for her work on the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF), the world’s leading forum for evaluating cross language searching systems, which Carol initiated and has run for ten years. This annual evaluation exercise has attracted a multi-disciplinary network of researchers to collaborate on shared tasks, to contribute to the CLEF testing resources, and to meet annually to present and discuss results. In its opening year, CLEF counted 20 participants; thanks to Carol’s hard work, CLEF has expanded year on year to become a major international event in information retrieval related research: in 2009 it attracted over 130 registrations from individual researchers and leading research groups from Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Americas.

The nomination noted that none of this would have happened had it not been for Carol Peter’s initiation and continued drive to run and maintain CLEF. Carol’s tireless work with CLEF has driven the information retrieval community to consider search in more than just the English language that previously dominated information retrieval research; thus she has made an enormous contribution to the awareness and understanding of information retrieval.

Initially, like most of the search evaluation exercises, CLEF adopted a ‘pooled test collection’ approach to evaluation that was adopted by other well known evaluation exercises like TREC. However, again, thanks to Carol’s leadership, CLEF has explored and indeed continues to investigate extensions to this basic model and the development of new metrics for new tasks so as to provide a multifaceted approach to performance evaluation. It is difficult to encapsulate here the huge impact of CLEF. CLEF’s academic output is strong, as evidence by the nearly 3,500 citations to the hundreds of papers presented at CLEF workshops. Multilingual search is garnering more interest in professional circles, where previously nationally-based work tasks have been extended to have international scope. As part of a long term plan to consider future directions, Carol has secured funding through a large number of consecutive EC projects, including the latest ‘TrebleCLEF’ project, which kept CLEF going and provided funding to hold a series of workshops where CLEF partners engaged with researchers and key industrial contacts in order to understand better how CLEF’s outputs were impacting on a series of communities and areas. Carol Peter’s contributions to information retrieval have been many and wide ranging, covering all of the areas for which the Tony Kent Strix Award is offered.

The Tony Kent Strix Award is presented each year in memory of Dr Tony Kent, a past Fellow of the Institute of Information Scientists, who died in 1997. Tony Kent made a major contribution to the development of information science both in the UK and internationally, particularly in the field of chemistry. The award is offered in recognition of individuals or groups for an outstanding contribution, practical innovation or achievement in the field of information retrieval. A call for nominations for the 2010 awards will be issued later in the year.

Press Contact Chris Armstrong, Awards, UKeiG.
e-mail: lisqual@cix.co.uk

UKeiG Training Courses - something for when the snow's melted!

UKeiG runs courses that are relevant across sectors and which are great value. Make sure you don’t miss out when we re-emerge after the snow melts, and book now online, by email or by fax – as the post isn’t getting through! Coming up so far next year we have the following courses:

NEW Legal Issues in Web 2.0
Charles Oppenheim
Wednesday 24th March
Edinburgh
http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2010/Legalissues.html

NEW Picture this! Image Management for Information Professionals
Roger Mills
Wednesday 31st March
CILIP, London
http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2010/Imagemgmt.htm

NEW Counting on statistics for market research: finding, evaluating and using resources
Karen Blakeman
Wednesday 21st April
Netskills, Newcastle
http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2010/StatsApril.html

NEW What a great idea! But how will we pay for it? Preparing bids to secure additional funding
Mary Aukland
Thursday 13th May
CILIP, London
http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2010/Greatidea.htm

Getting to grips with developing and managing e-book collections: an introduction
Chris Armstrong and Ray Lonsdale
Tuesday 25th May
Bristol
http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2010/ebooksmay.htm

Date for your diary: UKeiG AGM and Annual Seminar. Are you leading or following: practical implementation of open source applications
Wednesday 16th June
London
More details to follow shortly – watch this space

UKeiG at Online Information 2009

A reminder that Online Information will soon be here! The event is being held in the Grand Hall, Olympia in London on 1st-3rd December. As well as the conference there is an exhibition and free seminars. More information is available at http://www.online-information.co.uk/

UKeiG will be at stand 734 so come and visit us to find out more!

Training programme for 2010 now available

Details of UKeiG's training programme of workshops and meetings for 2010 are now available at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/index.html

The training calendar includes details of new events, as well as the date for our AGM and Annual Seminar in June. Details of further meetings for later on in the year will also be added to this page.

We are always looking for ideas for new meetings, speakers and venues. Please contact the UKeiG training coordinator, Tracy Kent, and share your thoughts.

Election of Members to the UKeiG Management Committee 2010

Nominations are invited for election to the UKeiG Management Committee for 2010.

Nominations must be signed by the candidate, a proposer and a seconder, all of whom must be members* or subscribing members* of UKeiG. Nominees, proposers and seconders do not have to be members of CILIP except in the case of nominees for Honorary Officers (Chair, Honorary Secretary, and Honorary Treasurer). Each nomination should include a 50 word summary of the candidate's relevant experience. This summary will be circulated to the membership in the event of a ballot being held.

*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.

Nominations must be sent via post or fax to Karen Blakeman, UKeiG
Honorary Secretary by Friday, 30th October 2009.

Further details are on the nomination form available at
http://www.rba.co.uk/ukeig/Callfornominations2010.pdf


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Karen Blakeman
UKeiG Honorary Secretary
mailto:karen.blakeman@rba.co.uk
t: +44 118 947 2256 f: +44 20 8020 0253 m: +44 7764 936733
88 Star Road, Caversham, Berkshire, RG4 5BE
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http://ukeig.wordpress.com/

UKeiG is a Special Interest Group of CILIP
Registered Charity Number: 313014

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
UKeiG Honorary Secretary, Web Site User Names & Passwords, PayPal
mailto:karen.blakeman@rba.co.uk
t: +44 118 947 2256 f: +44 20 8020 0253 m: +44 7764 936733
88 Star Road, Caversham, Berkshire, RG4 5BE
http://www.ukeig.org.uk/
http://ukeig.wordpress.com/

UKeiG is a Special Interest Group of CILIP
Registered Charity Number: 313014

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

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!

Follow what’s happening on Twitter with #ukeig2009

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.

UKeiG Conference: Early bird discount - reminder

This is a reminder that the early bird discount for UKeiG's Conference is only available for another 10 days - so don't miss out on this fantastic discounted rate! Even at full price this conference is great value, but if you book before 9th April you will get the early bird discount, making it even better value!

Here's a little reminder of what it's all about:

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

Dates: 16th-17th June

Venue: Manchester Conference Centre

UKeiG pride themselves on listening to their membership and providing what they need, so for their conference in June 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 - please see the website for full details: www.ukeig.org.uk).

So you can get two full days of speakers and discussions for less than the price many other training providers charge for a day!

Those who are attending the whole conference will also 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
• 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 www.ukeig.org.uk or by emailing conference@ukeig.org.uk to get your early bird discount!

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.

What would an intranet be like if it was designed by a librarian?

The presentations given at the UKeiG Intranets Forum, "What would an intranet be like if it was designed by a librarian?", on 19th February 2009 are now available in the members' area of the UKeiG web site at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/members/access/intranets_forum/

Presentation by Jennifer Smith and Ben Summers on OneIS (PDF) (1.4 MB)

Presentation by Janet Corroran. A survey of Imperial College London Library staff intranet: process and result (PPT) (600 KB)

Updated Factsheet: Top Search Tips

An update to the Top Search Tips Factsheet is now available on the UKeiG web site at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/members/access/factsheets/topsearchtips.html .

This Factsheet pulls together the top tips listed by participants attending the Google and Beyond search workshops. These can be search tools, individual web sites or search techniques. The Factsheet is in the members' area of the web site: if you have forgotten your user name and password, or would like temporary access, please contact karen.blakeman@rba.co.uk

Essential Copyright for Information Professionals

What You Need to Know - and Preparing for Change!

Venue: CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
Date: Tuesday, 17th March 2009, 9.30-16.15
Presenter: Laurence Bebbington
Costs (including lunch and refreshments): UKeIG members £140 + VAT (£161.00); others £170 + VAT (£195.50)

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.

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

Free Intranets Forum meeting for UKeiG members

What would an intranet be like if it was designed by a librarian?

to be held at:
LAWRENCE GRAHAM LLP

4 More London Riverside

London

SE1 2AU

Thursday 19th February 2.30 – 4.30 p.m.

There will be two presentations:

Jennifer Smith, OneIS

Frustrated by the lack of good information management principles in most IT systems, Jennifer Smith, a law librarian, created OneIS. Jennifer will demonstrate the system which is due for launch in Spring 2009.

Janet Corcoran
A survey of Imperial College London Library staff intranet: process and results

Location:
A map and directions are available at http://www.lg-legal.com/contact_us/london.html

Nearest tube: London Bridge

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

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

UKeiG - 2009 Management Committee

UKeiG is pleased to announce that the UKeiG Management Committee for 2009 is as follows:

Officers

Martin White, Chair
Charles Oppenheim, Hon. Treasurer
Karen Blakeman, Hon. Secretary

Committee Members

Liane Bradbrook
Janet Corcoran
Karen Gravett
Gary Horrocks (Immediate Past Chair)
Tracy Kent
Gina Nason
Megan Roberts
Clare Sinclair
Michael Upshall
Sheila Walker
Anne Welsh (co-opted)

The new committee officially takes over on 1 January 2009

--
Karen Blakeman
UKeiG Honorary Secretary, Web Site Liaison
mailto:karen.blakeman@rba.co.uk
t: +44 118 947 2256 f: +44 20 8020 0253 m: +44 7764 936733
88 Star Road, Caversham, Berkshire, RG4 5BE
http://www.ukeig.org.uk/
http://ukeig.wordpress.com/

UKeiG is a Special Interest Group of CILIP
Registered Charity Number: 313014

Now Available - eLucidate Vol 5 No 5, October 2008

The latest edition of eLucidate is now available on the UKeiG web site.

Contents include:

Feature Article: Intute Integration Update
An overview of Intute's Integration project, which is developing ways of integrating content into users' websites and VLEs [Members only]

UKeiG @Online Information 2008
Conference, free seminars & masterclasses, and exhibition at Online 2008.

Web 2.0 Round-up
A 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 ABC-CLIO, Cambridge University, Hakia, JISC, Springer, Thomson Reuters, University of Michigan [Members only]

Intranets
Martin White reports on the KM World Intranets Enterprise Search Summit West 2008, San Jose California, 23-25 September [Members only]

Reference Management and e-Publishing
Tracy Kent looks at new social bookmarking sites, Twidox, Mandeley, Reference Manager 12, Endnote2 for the Mac and 'Is your social bookmarking package legal?" [Members only]

Public Sector News
Jane Inman reports on What's New on Public Sector Information. [Members only]

Meeting Report: UKeiG Intranets Forum Drop-In Session.
Danielle Worster reports on the September informal get-together of the the UKeiG Intranets Forum.

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

Innovation in e-Information - the UKeiG 2009 conference
Manchester Conference Centre. Tuesday 16th June - Wednesday 17th June 2009.

Press Releases & News

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

2009 UKeiG Management Committee - Election of Members

Yes, it's that time of year again - UKeiG management committee elections! 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

UKeiG Workshop: Intranet Governance

Venue: CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
Date: Thursday 9th October 2008, 9.30-16.30

Course outline

Most organisations have strategies and policies for just about every aspect of operations, but rarely for the intranet. Intranets have now become essential information platforms, and need to be resourced appropriately.

The objective of this workshop is to set out the key elements of an intranet governance strategy. The workshop will cover:

• Making a business case for an intranet
• Developing an intranet strategy
• Turning a strategy into an operational plan
• Creating and managing the intranet team
• Supporting the work of content authors
• Achieving intranet impact
• Developing and undertaking usability tests
• Gaining user feedback

As well as copies of the presentations delegates will be provided with a template for an intranet governance strategy. The workshop will include some group work and good opportunities to share ideas and experiences.

Who should attend

Intranet managers who recognise that they need to develop business cases for investment in intranet staff and other resources, or who need to write corporate policy documents for intranet operations.

Course Presenter

The course will be given by Martin White, Intranet Focus Ltd. who has a wide experience of intranet strategy issues based on over 50 intranet projects carried out in the UK, Europe, the USA and the Middle East.

For more information or to book a place on this course, please visit http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2008/October/IntranetGovernance.html or email meetings@ukeig.org.uk

Top Search Tips, London June 2008

I ran another advanced search workshop (Google and Beyond) for UKeiG on June 11th, this time in London. Twenty people attended the event and came up with the following list of top search tips at the end of the day.

1. Use the Advanced Search screen. There are lots of goodies to be found on the advanced search screens: options for focussing your search by file format (e.g. xls for data and statistics, ppt for expert presentations, pdf for industry or government reports); site and domain search to limit your search to just one web site or a type of organisation (e.g. UK government, US academic); and in Google there is a numeric range search.

2. Google Custom Search Engines (Google CSE) at http://www.google.com/coop/cse/. This made its first appearance in the Top Tips from the Liverpool workshop earlier this year. Ideal for building collections of sites that you regularly search, to create a searchable subject list, or to offer your users a more focused search option.

3. See what Google does with your search string.

a) If you use the default search box and Google comes back with odd results, click on Advanced Search to see what it has done with your search terms.

b) If you use the Advanced Search screen and fill in the boxes, see how Google formats the search strategy by looking the search box at the top of the results page. By learning the commands and prefixes you can build more specific searches more quickly on the default search page.


4. Cached copies. Look at the search engines cached copy of a web page if you can’t find your search terms in the document or if the page is nothing like the description in the results list. You will see the version of the page that has been used by the search engine for indexing and with your terms highlighted.

5. Use tools such as Intelways and Zuula for quick and easy access to a wide range of search tools covering different types of information. Enter your search once, click on the tab for the type of resource for which you are searching (video, images, reference, news etc.), and then work your way through the list of search engines.

6. Alacrawiki. The Alacra Spotlights section is a good starting point for evaluated sites and information on industry sectors. It is also a good example of what to look for when assessing the quality of a wiki and how easy it is for anyone to edit the pages. In the Spotlights sections there is no edit option , not even if you register for an account and login. Only the Alacra editors can edit the pages.

7. Open access journals. Google Scholar sometimes leads you to copies of journal articles in institutional repositories and open access journals, but there are also directories of open access journals. For example: http://www.doaj.org/ , http://www.wsis-si.org/oa-journals.html, http://www.abc.chemistry.bsu.by/current/fulltext.htm . This is not my area of expertise so comments on other directories are welcome.

8. Social bookmarking sites. Try social bookmarking sites, not only for creating your evaluated lists of sites but for searching other peoples. For example FURL, Del.icio.us, Connotea, 2Collab . Connotea (owned by the Nature Publishing Group) and 2Collab (owned by Elsevier) are aimed at researchers and scientists.

9. Search results visualisation. Try out some of the newer search tools that present results and search options in a different way. For example Cluuz, Kartoo, Kvisu, Quintura. [Some of the participants specifically mentioned Cluuz and Kvisu].

10. The Internet Archive (Wayback Machine) at http://www.archive.org/ for pages, sites and documents that have disappeared. Ideal for tracking down lost documents, seeing how organisations presented themselves on the Web in the past, and for collecting evidence for a legal case (e.g. ‘passing off’, copyright infringement).

SharePoint 2007 for Intranets and Web Sites - Fully Booked

Please note that the SharePoint 2007 meeting being held on 15th July is now fully booked.

UKeiG intranets courses

You can find more information or book a place on these courses at on the UKeiG web site or by emailing meetings@ukeig.org.uk. Already know the subject inside-out? Maybe someone else in your organisation would benefit from the top quality training UKeiG provides.

SharePoint 2007 for Intranets and Web Sites
CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
Tuesday 15th July 2008, 9.30-16.30

The objective of this seminar is to outline the benefits and challenges of MOSS07 implementations so that intranet and web managers are better prepared to discuss these with colleagues in the IT department in developing a business case and implementation plan for using MOSS07.

The course will commence with a comprehensive introduction to MOSS07 which will provide an independent assessment of how to get the best out of MOSS07. This will be followed by a presentation on the search application that is included in MOSS07 and also the new Search Server 2008 Express. There will be a series of case studies of MOSS07 implementations, and the day will conclude with a Q&A Session.

Intranet Governance
CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
Thursday 9th October 2008, 9.30-16.30

Most organisations have strategies and policies for just about every aspect of operations, but rarely for the intranet. Intranets have now become essential information platforms, and need to be resourced appropriately.

The objective of this workshop is to set out the key elements of an intranet governance strategy. The workshop will cover: Making a business case for an intranet; Developing an intranet strategy; Turning a strategy into an operational plan; Creating and managing the intranet team; Supporting the work of content authors; Achieving intranet impact; Developing and undertaking usability tests; Gaining user feedback.

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.

UKeiG Subscription Renewals

A reminder to UKeiG members that for many of you your membership renewal is now due. If you are a CILIP member you will already have received your renewal forms from CILIP. You should check that UKeiG (code Y) is in your list of Special Interest Groups.

Even if you normally renew via CILIP you will also be receiving a form from us at UKeiG. Please do fill this in and return it to Christine Baker (details on the form) to ensure that we have your correct contact details. It also helps us with our financial, budget and operational planning to know who is intending to renew their subscription to UKeiG.

For those of you who are not members of CILIP, remember that you can renew direct via our web site at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/join/index.html
There is also an option to pay using your credit card via PayPal for personal, student, unwaged and Institutional members.

Important: You have until March 31st to renew your membership. If you have not renewed by then, you will be removed from the membership database and no longer eligible for membership benefits.

Some of you - in most cases those of you who joined CILIP or UKeiG direct in 2007 - may be on 'rolling renewal' which means that your membership is due for renewal on the anniversary of your first subscription. You will receive your renewal documentation at the appropriate time.

If you have any questions about UKeiG membership or your renewal please contact Christine Baker (cabaker@ukeig.org.uk) or Karen Blakeman, UKeiG Hon. Sec. (karen.blakeman@rba.co.uk)

UKeiG course for 2008: Image Management

Image Management: New Directions

to be held at

The Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Thursday, 13th March, 2008, 9.30 - 16.30

Workshop Outline
In this increasingly visual age, subject librarians and information specialists are frequently required to source Images in a wide variety of formats, advise on their use and organise their retention as part of their day-to-day jobs, but often with no specialist experience or training. This workshop aims to help the non-specialist navigate successfully across this unfamiliar territory, pointing out useful shortcuts and pitfalls to avoid, and showcasing examples of good practice that can help inspire us in the use of a wide spectrum of information resources ranging from historic manuscripts to genomic databanks. Achieving holistic management of such diverse resources to allow easy correlation of their information content is challenging, especially for small information units and 'one-man-bands'. Developing technologies offer new opportunities but can themselves produce new demands in devising effective strategies for their use. This workshop is an opportunity to share experiences and float ideas in areas where there are as yet few 'right answers'!

The workshop will comprise a mix of presentations and group discussion. Topics are expected to range over:

* Locating sources: what to look for and where to look
* Digital libraries and repositories: creating and searching
* Embedded images: searching within documents
* Metadata content and ontologies: requirements for effective retrieval
* Rights issues and commercial factors
* Storage and preservation: short- and long-term issues
* Using images in teaching and learning: the role of the information specialist
* The impact of social networking tools: salvation or hype?

Who Should Attend
Anyone whose work involves the use of images will benefit from this meeting, from any sector - university, college, government, NHS, charity, learned society, commercial etc. We hope for a good mix as we all have much to learn from each other!

Presenters
A panel of speakers will be chaired by Roger Mills, Bio- and Environmental Sciences Librarian, Oxford University Library Services. Roger is currently President of EBHL (European Botanical and Horticultural Libraries) and co-ordinator of IUFRO (International Union of Forest Research Organisations) Unit 6.03.00 Information Services and Knowledge Organisation. He is co-author of The New Walford: Volume 1: Science Technology and Medicine, Facet, 2005, as subject specialist for Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries and Food.

The panel will include:
Dr David Shotton, Oxford e-Research Centre and Dept of Zoology, University of OxfordMichael Popham, Head of the Oxford Digital Library, Oxford University Library Services

Further details of the speakers and programme will be announced on http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/ as available.

UKeiG is a Special Interest Group of CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and InformationProfessionals. 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE. Registered Charity No. 313014.

UKeiG training courses recognised by CILIP

UKeiG is pleased to announce that it has been approved by the CILIP Accreditation Board for the award of the CILIP Seal of Recognition in acknowledgement of the range of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) activities that are relevant for the Library and Information Science Community.

UKeiG offers a wide range of training courses which are held throughout the UK. For further details contact:

Christine Baker, Piglet Cottage, Redmire, LEYBURN, North Yorkshire DL8 4EH. Tel & Fax: 01969 625751 Email: CABaker@ukeig.org.uk

Places still available! Effective business research processes, principles and practices

You Want What? Effective business research processes, principles and practices

A UKeiG Course, to be held at CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
Wednesday, 7th November, 2007, 9.45 - 16.30

Workshop Outline
Is there ever a method to the madness of researching business information? Could the implementation of a basic research process help with your technique? This one day course will help new and developing information professionals answer these questions, discuss business research skills and techniques, and work through practical case study examples.

Sessions will include:
* The business information professional - roles and skills
* Effective business research process techniques
* Opportunities to add value: is the data enough?

Practical project/case examples will be conducted covering such areas as:
* Negotiating with difficult people and dealing with changing circumstances
* What happens if it all goes wrong
* Time planning
* Source planning
* Searching tools and techniques
* Adding value to the basic request
* Current awareness
* Relationship management

By the end of the course delegates will have learnt:
* Roles and skills for the information professional
* What is business research? There's more to it than just searching databases
* Steps and techniques in the business research process

Course Presenter
Jill Fenton is the Founder and a Director of Fenton Research Ltd, a London-based research company providing high quality, tailored research and advice to help clients achieve their business goals. Jill has over 10 years of professional business research experience. Her career includes research management and analyst positions at Deloitte & Touche LLP, Boston Consulting Group and Mercer Oliver Wyman. She also holds an Honours Degree in Information Management from Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh. Jill is a committee member of the City Information Group and a member of the Association of Independent Information Professionals. She has had several research related articles published and presented seminars at Online Information 2006.

For full details and to book your place please visit our website

UKeiG at Internet Librarian International

UKeiG will be at Internet Librarian International (ILI) 2007. The event takes place at the Copthorne Tara Hotel in London on October 8th-9th and this year’s theme is ‘New Realities, Roles and Resources’.

CILIP is an Association Sponsor and UKeiG are also supporting the event. The programme is jam-packed with goodies and UKeiG committee member Karen Blakeman is presenting ‘What the Search Engines are up to Now’ on Tuesday, 9th October. UKeiG also plans to have a presence at the event’s showcase exhibition, so come along and say hello.

As well as the talks and presentations ILI provides participants with an excellent opportunity to network and make new friends.

There is an Early Bird discount if you register before September 14th and there are special rates for CILIP members. Further details of the programme and a booking form are on the ILI web site at http://www.internet-librarian.com/

Update on UKeiG membership data and status

An update on the earlier blog posting about membership and data.

Having also posted this on LIS-UKeiG and the UKeiG blog, we have had a message from a CILIP member who thought they were a UKeiG member. She had not appeared on any membership lists received by us at UKeiG so she checked her details on the CILIP web site. She found that two of the groups she thought she had joined were not listed. She contacted the CILIP membership team and was told that "the synchronisation of database and records is not complete". A similar experience has been reported by a second UKeiG/CILIP member. So I am not sure how useful it will be to check your CILIP membership record online.

UKeiG membership data and status

As some of you may know, CILIP has implemented a new membership database. CARE has replaced ADLIB and CILIP membership data has now been transferred to the new system. Unfortunately there are still some teething troubles, which are being addressed, but this means that some of the information we receive from CILIP about UKeiG members is not always correct. For example, some UKeiG members have been listed as renewed in one report, lapsed in the next, then new or resigned! All discrepancies are reported to CILIP and they are working on resolving these problems.

As UKeiG maintains its own membership database, we can quickly identify inconsistencies in the data from CILIP. We have contacted many of those affected by the gremlins in order to confirm their membership status. If you have renewed your UKeiG membership through CILIP but are no longer receiving mailings from us, or your UKeiG user name and password no longer work, please contact Christine Baker (cabaker@ukeig.org.uk). She will be able to tell you your current UKeiG membership status as relayed to us by CILIP.

You can check your CILIP membership record via the CILIP web site (http://www.cilip.org.uk/) by logging in to 'My Profile'.

New UKeiG Factsheet on Managing Images

Top Tips on Managing your Images

Compiled by Roger Mills, Bio- and Environmental Sciences Librarian, Oxford University Library Services

If you are involved in any areas of Image Management, this factsheet is for you! It includes top tips for finding, using and keeping images, plus other key issues such as copyright. Anyone involved in working with images will find this a useful guide to help them on their way.

UKeiG Factsheets are a member benefit and members can find them on the UKeiG website: http://www.ukeig.org.uk/members/access/factsheets/index.html

If you are not a member of UKeiG, and would like to have access to the wide range of factsheets UKeiG provides, visit the UKeiG website: http://www.ukeig.org.uk/join/index.html for joining details.

Image Management in Bio- and Environmental Sciences: New Directions

Image Management in Bio- and Environmental Sciences: New Directions

to be held at

The John Rylands University Library, University of Manchester
Thursday, 31st May, 2007, 9.30 – 16.30

Workshop Outline
The bio- and environmental sciences cover a broad spectrum from taxonomy to bioinformatics, farming to climate change, with a correspondingly wide range of information resources ranging from historic manuscripts to genomic databanks. Images form an important component of all these and achieving holistic management of diverse resources to allow easy correlation of their information content is challenging, especially for small information units and ‘one-man-bands’. Developing technologies offer new opportunities but can themselves produce new demands in devising effective strategies for their use. This workshop aims to share experiences and float ideas in areas where there are as yet no ‘right answers’!

Details and a booking form can be found on the UKeiG web site, or contact Christine Baker for further details on Tel & Fax: +44 (0)1969 625751, email: cabaker@ukeig.org.uk

UKeiG Management Committee Elections 2007/8

The following were nominated and seconded for election to the UKeiG Management Committee.

Chris Armstrong (Vice Chair). Proposer: Jane Grogan. Seconder:Shaida Dorabjee

Christine Baker (Hon Sec). Proposer:Chris Armstrong. Seconder:Karen Blakeman

Helen Davies. Proposer:Tracy Kent. Seconder:Karen Blakeman

Jane Grogan (Treasurer). Proposer:Shaida Dorabjee. Seconder:Tracy Kent

Gary Horrocks (Chair). Proposer:Karen Blakeman. Seconder:Claire Pillar

Megan Roberts. Proposer:Claire Pillar. Seconder:Christine Baker

Michael Upshall. Proposer:Christine Baker. Seconder:Lyndsay Rees-Jones

Sheila Walker. Proposer:Alice Laird. Seconder:Andrea Milns

As the number of nominations does not exceed the number of vacancies, a postal ballot was not required and the above are elected to the UKeiG Management Committee with effect from 1 April 2007.