UKeiG training events are not to be missed and fill up quickly – so please book early to avoid disappointment!

All about Google: regain control of search Course presenter: Karen Blakeman http://www.ukeig.org.uk/trainingevent/all-about-google-regain-control-search-karen-blakeman
Thursday, 31 March, 2011 -09:30 – 16:30
Netskills Training Suite, University of Newcastle

Mobile access to information resources
Course presenter: Martin White
http://www.ukeig.org.uk/trainingevent/mobile-access-information-resources-martin-white
Wednesday, 13 April, 2011 – 09:30 -16:30 CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Effectively influencing your Stakeholders : powerful techniques for marketing AND change management Course Presenters: Elisabeth Goodman and Shaida Dorabjee http://www.ukeig.org.uk/trainingevent/effectively-influencing-your-stakeholders-powerful-techniques-marketing-and-change-man
Wednesday, 18 May, 2011 – 09:30 -16:30
CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Getting to grips with developing and managing e-book collections: an introduction Course Presenters: Chris Armstrong and Ray Lonsdale http://www.ukeig.org.uk/trainingevent/getting-grips-developing-and-managing-e-book-collections-introduction-course-presenter
Wednesday, 25 May, 2011 – 09:30 -16:30
Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool, 1 Brownlow Street, Liverpool

Smarter content with the semantic web: Is your organisation ready?
UKeiG Annual Seminar and AGM
http://www.ukeig.org.uk/trainingevent/smarter-content-semantic-web-your-organisation-ready-ukeig-annual-seminar-and-agm
Wednesday, 15 June, 2011 – 09:30- 17:00
Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House/Piccadilly, W1J 0BA, London

Getting better at everything you do: optimizing the way you work Course presenter: Elisabeth Goodman http://www.ukeig.org.uk/trainingevent/getting-better-everything-you-do-optimizing-way-you-work-elisabeth-goodman
Tuesday, 28 June, 2011 -09:30 – 16:30
Aston Business School Conference Centre, Aston Triangle, Birmingham B4 7ET

The UK Digital Curation Centre http://www.dcc.ac.uk/ is running a series of inter-linked regional workshops as part of the DCC Roadshow, aimed at supporting institutional research data management planning and training.

The 2nd DCC Roadshow is being organised in partnership with the White Rose University Consortium http://www.whiterose.ac.uk/ and will take place 1-3 March 2011 in Sheffield. Running over 3 days, different workshops will provide advice and guidance tailored to a range of staff, including PVCs Research, University Librarians, Directors of IT/Computing Services, Repository Managers, Research Support Services and practising researchers.

Day 1) The Research Data Landscape (introduction with case studies), Day 2) The Research Data Challenge for Institutions (strategic policy and planning), Day 3) Data Curation 101 training course (practice and tools).

The Roadshow will be opened on Day 1 by Martin Lewis, Director of Library Services and University Librarian at the University of Sheffield. The venue is the University’s Halifax Conference Centre.

Find out more about the workshops at
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/data-management-roadshows/dcc-roadshow-sheffield

Each workshop can be booked individually. We encourage you to select the workshop/s which addresses your own particular data management requirements and then to pass this invitation on to other members of staff, colleagues, researchers etc so that they can do the same.

Registration for the workshops is free.

Please note that delegate numbers are limited and priority will be given to participants from HEIs in Yorkshire.

Register now at: – http://asp.artegis.com/dccroadshowmarch2011

E-books and E-content 2011

University College London, 11 May 2011, 10.00 to 17.00

The uptake of e-book readers has suddenly proliferated and 2010 has proved to be a milestone year for a consumer led boom in e-books and e-readers. Amazon reported that sales of Kindle editions of paperbacks have outstripped paperbacks in the US for the first time and the Apple iPad has also become ubiquitous for anyone wanting a general purpose notepad, leading to any number of imitations, many of which can serve as very effective reading devices. Moreover, all are coming with increasingly high levels of connectivity, moving them into the realms of general purpose computing. Whilst there are few figures that illustrate this growth, the sheer presence of these technologies on the street suggest that portable eBook readers have finally arrived.

What does that imply for publishers, libraries, and booksellers etc., all of whom are again being threatened by an emerging business model? E-books and E-content 2011 will return to its traditional theme of the e-book and explore these technologies, the associated services and the possible impact on the traditional businesses of publications and their exploitation. Should libraries start supplying e-books as downloads as some are? Should publishers seek out new formats and markets for publications? Where does it leave library suppliers? And what about academia, where every student may soon have an electronic notepad and fail to understand why their course material isn’t already in e-format.

Speakers will include Hannah Perrett, the Director of Digital Partnership Sales at Cambridge University Press, Martin Palmer from Essex County Library, Jude Norris from Dawson Books, Dr Sian Harris, the Editor of Research Information, and a speaker from the public library and industry e-book supply company Overdrive.

James Macfarlane of Easynet Solutions will cover the process of e-book production, standards and e-reader issues whilst Nicky Whitsed, Director of Libraries for the Open University will look at how they are using e-readers in an academic context and in particular she will talk about and demo the OU’s interactive e-books for iPad.

Thus the team of expert speakers will address these critical questions interspersed with open discussions on futures and industry impact. The meeting will be chaired by Nick Canty of UCL and who was most recently Publishing Director of the academic press of a major professional institution and John Akeroyd, Research Fellow at UCL.

As always the event will be of interest to all professions associated with the information and digital publishing sectors, including publishers, librarians and booksellers.

Registration fee: £110 per delegate

Registration form: click HERE to download the registration form.

Venue: The Gustave Tuck lecture theatre, with registration and reception in the South Cloisters. Both venues are in the Wilkins Building, Gower Street.
Map link: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/locations/ucl-maps/map2_low_res

For further information, please email infostudies-conferences@ucl.ac.uk