Licences and their negotiation

Venue and date
The City Suite, Thistle City Hotel, Barbican, London , EC1V 8DSThursday 24th September 2009, 9.30-16.30

Course Outline
This practical one day training event is designed to provide Information Professionals with an introduction to the licensing of electronic resources such as e books, e journals and abstracting and indexing services. This course has been designed to introduce the major components of such licences and why they are important, what are the issues that are likely to cause the greatest difficulty, and will introduce issues related to the fine art of negotiating.The sessions will include:

• What is a licence and why are they used?
• The main features of a licence
• Clauses that are likely to cause problems
• Negotiating styles
• Negotiating skills

The session will include practical exercises to assess participants’ negotiation style, and small group discussion of a sample licence

Who Should Attend
This workshop will be of benefit to Information Professionals in any type of organisation that have to negotiate licences with suppliers of electronic information

Presenter
Charles Oppenheim is Emeritus Professor and former Head of the Department of Information Science, Loughborough University. Previous posts in academia and the electronic publishing industry include working for The City University, International Thomson, Pergamon and Reuters. Charles is the author of "The Legal and Regulatory Environment for Electronic Information" and is a well-known authority on copyright having written many articles on the subject. He has been a member of JISC and served on some of its committees since 1992. He is currently a member of the JISC Scholarly Publishing Working Group and of the HEFCE/UUK Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights. He is a member of the Legal Advisory Board of the European Commission.

Costs (including lunch and refreshments):
UKeiG members £140 + VAT (£ 161.00); others £170 + VAT (£ 195.50)

Bookings
To book your place please use the booking form at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2009/September/Licenses.html or email Christine Baker at cabaker@ukeig.org.uk

Beating the credit crunch: preparing bids to secure additional funding

A new UKeiG Course

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

Cost
UKeiG members £140 + VAT (£161.00); others £170 + VAT (£195.50)

To book your place please use the booking form at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2009/June/Preparingbids.html or email Christine Baker at cabaker@ukeig.org.uk

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)

Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 for Intranets and Projects

Venue: The City Suite, Thistle City Hotel, Barbican, London, EC1V 8DS
Date: Thursday 21st May 2009, 9.30-16.30
Presenter: Martin White

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.

Course 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.

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.