UKeiG Events

UKeiG at Online Information

Fri, 5 Jun 2009 08:49:29 +0100

Venue: Olympia, London
Dates: Tuesday 1 - Thursday 3 December 2009

Making 'Search' work

Fri, 5 Jun 2009 08:47:06 +0100

Venue: The City Suite, Thistle City Hotel, Barbican, London EC1V 8DS

Date: 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.

Presenter: Martin White, Managing Director, Intranet Focus Ltd,

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

UKeiG at Internet Librarian International, London

Fri, 5 Jun 2009 08:44:26 +0100

Dates: Thursday 15 - Friday 16 October 2009
Venue: Novotel London West, London

Licences and their negotiation

Fri, 5 Jun 2009 08:40:51 +0100

Venue: The City Suite, Thistle City Hotel, Barbican, London EC1V 8DS

Date:  Thursday 24 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

Presenter:  Charles Oppenheim

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

Essential copyright for information professionals: what you need to know - and preparing for change!

Fri, 5 Jun 2009 08:37:24 +0100

Venue: University of Glasgow Library, Hillhead Street, Glasgow G12 8QE

Date: 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.

Presenter: Laurence Bebbington

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

Intranets Forum SharePoint in action (UKeIG members only)

Fri, 5 Jun 2009 08:31:42 +0100

Free informal Intranets Forum meeting for UKeiG members to be held at:

City Business Library
City of London
1, Brewers' Hall Garden (off Aldermanbury Square)
London
EC2V 5BX

Date and time: Tuesday 21st July 2009 2.30 - 4.30 p.m.

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.

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

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

Mon, 9 Feb 2009 17:35:47 +0000

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.

Further details are available on the UKeiG Web site

Innovation in e-Information - the UKeiG 2009 Conference

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:21:54 +0000

Venue: Manchester Conference Centre, Weston Building, Sackville Street, Manchester

Date: Tuesday 16th June - Wednesday 17th June 2009