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

Digital Lives: New Research Project to Explore the Nation's Digital Memories

• New research project to explore the nation's digital memories.
• 'Digital Lives' sets to understand how we use computers in our daily lives to capture personal moments and memories
• Led by the British Library with University College London and Bristol University

All creators and users of digital information invited to fill in an online survey.

From diaries, letters, jottings and photo albums to blogging, emailing, tweeting and flickr-ing, the digital revolution has affected enormously the ways in which we record our personal lives. These largely born-digital collections will become invaluable in years to come for researchers - from biographers and historians to literary critics and scientists. Currently nobody knows for sure what is happening to this material and whether it can be made available in the future. 'Digital Lives' aims to begin to answer these questions.

Dr Jeremy Leighton John, the British Library's Curator of e-Manuscripts and the Principal Investigator of 'Digital Lives', says: "More and more people are creating, acquiring and holding digital information on their desktops, laptops and hand-held devices. We need to begin to understand the way people capture, maintain and share digital information, the legal and ethical environment in which they do so, including perceptions and realities of ownership, and the impact of new technologies on recording our lives."

The team is now looking for help from anyone who uses computers in their daily lives. There are two ways in which people can participate and help the 'Digital Lives' project:

• By completing an online survey at http://www.bl.uk/digitallivessurvey.html The survey looks at the way people currently use their computers to capture their digital lives
• By sending in details of technologies and online services relevant for capturing, retaining and sharing digital information to digital.lives@bl.uk

As the custodian of the nation's collective memory the British Library has an interest in enabling future access to digital archives and personal collections created by individuals in the 21st century. The project team has already interviewed a number of individuals such as the
politician Tony Benn, molecular biologist Richard Henderson, playwright, actor and comedian Patrick Marber, digital storyteller and photographer Daniel Meadows, architects M. J. Long and Rolfe Kentish, and geophysicist Martin Siegert.

For further information about 'Digital Lives' please visit
http://www.bl.uk/digitallivessurvey.html or contact Suvi Kankainen in the British Library's Press Office suvi.kankainen@bl.uk