Getting to grips with developing and managing e-book collections: an introduction

Venue: Netskills Training Suite, University of Newcastle
Date: Tuesday 27th October 2009, 9.30 - 16.30
Presenters: Ray Lonsdale and Chris Armstrong

Course Outline

This course opens the door to a new electronic format and is designed to support librarians who are beginning to set up e-book collections. In the last eight years, there has been an unprecedented growth in the publishing of e-books with an increasing array of different types available for all sectors. The programme will give you the opportunity to explore different e-books including a range of commercially-published and free reference works, monographs, textbooks, and fiction. Examples will include individual titles and also collections of e-books, such as those offered by NetLibrary, Credo, MyiLibrary and Oxford University Press. The course will also facilitate consideration of the new opportunities e-books offer for librarians and users in academic, public and special library and information services, and will explore the significant collection management and promotional issues which challenge information and library staff.

The course is designed to offer:

• an understanding of the nature of e-books
• a familiarity with range of commercially-produced e-books from publishers and aggregators
• a familiarity with range of free e-books
• an appreciation of the advantages and disadvantages of the medium
• an appreciation of the collection management issues associated with bibliographical control, selection, acquisition, access, evaluation, licensing, and archiving
• a familiarity with the different ways of promoting awareness and use of e-books

In addition to talks by the presenters, the course includes practical exercises. One will allow delegates to explore examples of online e-books in a structured way. Others will comprise activities during which delegates will examine the major collection management, and marketing and promotion issues. Plenary sessions led by the course presenters will be held to enable delegates to discuss their findings in the light of current research and professional practice.

Course Presenters

Ray Lonsdale and Chris Armstrong Chris Armstrong and Ray Lonsdale have been working and offering courses in the field of e-books, e-resources and collection management for the past 12 years, both in the UK and abroad. Up until recently, they were members of the Joint Information Systems Committee e-Book Working Group, which has been promoting the publishing and uptake of e-books in further and higher education and sixth form colleges. Ray is Reader in Information Studies at Aberystwyth University and a Director of Information Automation Limited. He has specialised in the field of collection management and, in particular, in the management of electronic collections. Ray has published extensively and has edited several national and international professional and academic journals. Chris runs a consultancy, research and training company, Information Automation Limited, which he set up in 1987. The company specialises in all forms of electronic resources and in electronic publishing, a topic on which Chris has taught a module in the Department in Aberystwyth. Chris is a regular writer, and sits on the editorial boards of three professional journals. He is also a National Councillor of CILIP.


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

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.

ISKO UK - Agenda for Information Retrieval

The British Chapter of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO UK) is holding an open meeting entitled 'Agenda for Information Retrieval'

Date: 26th June 2008 15:00 - 19:00 (registration starts 14:30).

Venue: University College London, Engineering Faculty, Roberts Building G06

Cost: 10 GBP (ISKO UK members free)

Searching, browsing, and other routes to information are no longer the preserve of information professionals; they are on every desktop, at the fingertips of almost anybody. “Search” has become part of the everyday lifestyle.

Three eminent speakers Brian Vickery, Stephen Robertson and Ian Rowlands will address the issues that have dominated the information retrieval agenda since the 1950s, and still present challenges and opportunities for the future. This ISKO UK event is organized in cooperation with UCL's School of Library, Archive and Information Studies (SLAIS).

For full details on the venue, programme and to book your place at the event visit http://www.iskouk.org/AgendaIR_June2008.htm