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

noreply@blogger.com (UKeiG) — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:36:00 +0000

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

UKeiG Student Conference Award

noreply@blogger.com (UKeiG) — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:00:00 +0000

UKeiG would like to remind students that it offers awards to UK undergraduate and postgraduate students in UK schools or departments of librarianship, information studies, information science, knowledge management or information management running courses accredited by CILIP.

The Student Conference Award is offered to enable a student to attend a UK-based conference relevant to their professional studies (e.g. LILAC, The CILIP Umbrella Conference, the Online Information Meeting)

Applications are accepted throughout the year. The grant awarded may not cover all costs. UKeiG reserves the right to withhold the award. It is a condition of winning support that a short ‘conference report’ is presented for publication in our journal, eLucidate.

Nominations should take the form of a letter detailing the benefits to be gained from attending the conference, as well as details of the conference, including date and place, and the costs for which support is sought.

All enquiries to awards@ukeig.org.uk

For more information on UKeiG awards see: http://www.ukeig.org.uk/awards/index.html

2nd UKeiG Training Day in March

noreply@blogger.com (UKeiG) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:09:00 +0000

Rough Guide to Image Management: Digital Image handling for non-specialists

To be held at

CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
Wednesday, 31st March 2010, 9.30-16.30

Course Outline
Digital images are now all-pervasive in our daily lives, but finding the right images for specific needs, and delivering them in formats appropriate for the intended use, can be challenging for enquiry desk staff in all types of libraries. This session aims to provide a road map for those new to the subject, signposting the many issues to be considered, indicating short cuts for effective service delivery and sources of help for more in-depth solutions to complex enquiries.

Topics covered will range over:
* Locating sources: what to look for and where to look
* Digital libraries and repositories: cross searching effectively
* Embedded images: searching within documents
* Metadata content and ontologies: requirements for effective retrieval
* Format and delivery issues
* Technology developments
* 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
* Collaborative development of educational resources

The workshop will comprise a mix of presentations and group work, and participants are encouraged to bring examples of image-related queries they have received to use as case studies in discussion.

Who should attend
The workshop is aimed at anyone whose work involves the use of images, especially those new to the topic. Participants are welcome from any sector - university, college, government, NHS, charity, learned society, commercial etc. We all have much to learn from each other!

Course Presenter
The day will be led by Roger Mills, Head of Science Liaison and Specialist Services for Oxford University Library Services.

To register your interest in this meeting, reserve a place, or request further details, please email meetings@ukeig.org.uk. Further details are also available via the UKeiG website at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2010/Imagemgmt.htm

2009 Tony Kent Strix Award winner

noreply@blogger.com (Megan Roberts) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:10:00 +0000

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!

noreply@blogger.com (Megan Roberts) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:13:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (UKeiG) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:34:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (UKeiG) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:56:00 +0000

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.

New members of the UKeiG Management Committee

noreply@blogger.com (UKeiG) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:16:00 +0000

UKeiG is pleased to welcome three new members to the UKeIG Management committee.

Shaida Dorabjee will be taking over the role of Honorary Secretary from Karen Blakeman on 1st January 2010. Martin White continues as Chair and Charles Oppenheim as Honorary Treasurer. We also have two new committee members: Sheila Thomas and Tim Wales.

Further details about the new 2010 UKeiG management committee will be made available on the UKeiG web site in the New Year.

Election of Members to the UKeiG Management Committee 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Blakeman) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:09:00 +0000

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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Intute funding reduction and refocused service

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Blakeman) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:52:00 +0000

Intute would like your views

Posted on behalf of Intute

Online survey http://feedback.intute.ac.uk/proposal (available until 9th September)

You may be aware that Intute is expecting a reduction in funding and consequently is planning a significant change to the service. This is intended to provide some background and bring you up to date with our plans for the next few months. I appreciate that you may have concerns about what this means for your users, however I hope that I can provide some reassurance.

Following the JISC review of spending priorities for the academic year 2010-11, the decision was made to significantly reduce the current funding to Intute in the context of an expectation that JISC will be required to find real term funding savings. JISC will continue to support some aspects of Intute (to be confirmed in mid October 2009), and especially its Internet research skills activities, but they have recommended that we refocus as an organisation and look at our current business model. In the current economic climate we expect that this will just be one of many difficult public funding decisions.

Intute employs a number of people and contributors through agreements with many UK higher education institutions and key bodies in the sector. We are currently in a period of consultation with those most affected by this announcement, in particular in relation to the impact on staff employed on Intute activity, and are developing a proposal for a scaled down Intute service to run 2010-2013 which will be considered at the JISC Infrastructure and Resources Committee meeting in October.

We are acutely aware of the impact of any reduction of service on our users and especially those organisations which integrate Intute into their websites, library catalogues and virtual learning environments. For the 2009-10 academic year it is likely that it will be business as usual and the current Intute, Virtual Training Suite and Informs will be available until at least 31st July 2010.

In the meantime we will be gathering information about the impact of the funding reduction and will develop transition plans. We expect to be in a position to give out further information towards the end of this calendar year. In order to inform these plans for the future and support our impact analysis we would welcome your feedback on what you value most about Intute and how you use it in your work and in support of teaching and learning. Also, we are looking for volunteers to participate in focus group events, and to complete a short online survey http://feedback.intute.ac.uk/proposal (available until 9th September).

To keep up to date with Intute news and get involved with developing Intute please join our mailing list (Intute-announce@jiscmail.ac.uk) and/or check our website.

Thank you for your continued interest in and support of Intute.

Caroline Williams

Executive Director of Intute

Email: caroline.williams@manchester.ac.uk

Internet Librarian International programme out now

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Blakeman) — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:34:00 +0000

The Internet Librarian International 2009 programme is out now.

15-16 October 2009 (Preconference Workshops: 14 October) - Novotel
London West, London, UK

Two controversial keynote speakers headline this year's event:

Cory Doctorow, technology activist, journalist, and science fiction author brings his own refreshing insights into privacy rights and access in a keynote entitled Copyright, Copyleft, Privacy, Librarians and Freedom.

Cambridge Professor Peter Murray-Rust has some provocative views on where libraries are headed in Challenging Librarians to Face and Create the Future

This year's programme:

ebooks, Google book search, mobile devices, computer gaming, blogs, microblogs and social networks, and social search all feature in this year's programme, underlining the need for libraries to respond aggressively to a climate where library viability is challenged, and
versatility is key.

An 'unconference', bar camp session for delegates to have their say in a user-generated discussion.

Is social the top technology trend for libraries? A panel of experts examines Top Technology Trends for Libraries and Information Professionals in a closing session on technology trends in a library setting.

Also: digital libraries, innovative projects, eCollections, eContent, Information Literacy, next gen, collaboration and community, information discovery and search, supported by a fun, informal networking programme and Sponsor Showcase.

Prices have been kept at last year's level, whilst offering 40% discounts for your colleagues to attend. See the web site for full programme and registration discount details.

http//www.internet-librarian.com/

UKeiG Workshop: Developing and managing e-book collections - an introduction

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Blakeman) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:47:00 +0000

Developing and managing e-book collections: an introduction

Venue: Netskills Training Suite, University of Newcastle

Date: Tuesday 27th October 2009, 9.30 - 16.30

Costs (including lunch and refreshments): UKeiG members £160 + VAT (£184.00); others £190 + VAT (£218.50)

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.

To register your interest in this meeting, reserve a place, or request further details, please email meetings@ukeig.org.uk Further details are also available via the UKeiG website at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2009/October/ManagingeBookCollections.html

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

Conference presentations available

noreply@blogger.com (Anne Welsh) — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:21:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Anne Welsh) — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:09:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Anne Welsh) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:02:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Anne Welsh) — Sun, 31 May 2009 14:32:00 +0000

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!

noreply@blogger.com (Anne Welsh) — Sun, 31 May 2009 13:59:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Anne Welsh) — Sat, 30 May 2009 21:30:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Anne Welsh) — Sat, 30 May 2009 21:20:00 +0000

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!

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Blakeman) — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:38:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (UKeiG) — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:38:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Blakeman) — Fri, 01 May 2009 08:47:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Blakeman) — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:50:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (UKeiG) — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:12:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (UKeiG) — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:58:00 +0000

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