17 November 2009
Kings Place, Kings Cross, London

On 17 November 2009 CILIP will be holding a major new conference looking at the challenges and opportunities Digital Information raises for librarians, information professionals and publishers. With the increasing demand for high-quality digital content and rising competition from players such as Google and Microsoft, this conference is essential in identifying how this demand can be met.

Why attend:

* Gain a unique view of the digital landscape

* Identify challenges and opportunities

* Engage in discussion and debate with expert speakers

* Network with delegates from across the information community

For further details on this event and how to book visit www.cilip.org.uk/digitalinfo09

Hurry! Special early bird rates available (only 65) ends September 30th
Booking is open for this years conference to be held in the Mitchell Library, Glasgow on 22nd October 2009.
This years programme is the result of a collaborative partnership between SLIC/MMITS/SCURL and for the first time SALCTG and is designed to appeal to all sectors.
The Conference will be chaired by Liz McGettigan, Head of Edinburgh City Libraries and includes a supplier exhibition.
Details of the programme are available on the slainte website www.slainte.org.uk and speakers include Dave Pattern (University of Huddersfield), Liam Earney of JISC and Dan Franklin, Digital Manager with Canongate Publishing.
A full exhibition will accompany the conference with the opportunity to view products and speak directly with suppliers.
An early bird delegate rate of 65 will apply until the end of September (thereafter 85) to include lunch and refreshments. Demand for the early bird rate has been exceptionally high and we urge you to take advantage of this offer while it is still available to be sure of securing a place at the discounted rate.
For further information and to book online go to http://www.slainte.org.uk/events/evntcalendarsummary.cfm

14 September 2009 10:00 to 16:00
The Lighthouse (Scotland’s Centre for Architecture, Design and the City) 11 Mitchell Lane, Glasgow G1 3NU

The RIN is holding this free workshop to raise awareness of the Freedom of Information Act (FOI) as a tool for researchers and to aid understanding of the new access regime. The day will cover how to use FOI to access records and information and how to make successful requests. Case studies will be presented to explore how to use FOI in practice, offering strategies for what works well for particular disciplines and types of research. The workshop follows on a similar and very successful event held in London last year. Full details and registration at http://www.rin.ac.uk/foi-scotland .

An open debate sponsored by the Academic & Professional Division of The Publishers Association

24th June at The Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4BS The debate begins at 2.00pm and will conclude with a wine reception.

Will all digital content need to be free? Does the Internet make that inevitable?

How profound is the current revolution in publishing? Or are current experiments just accelerating natural evolution? Will the established value chains hold up? Should they?

How can publishers best serve the academy? How can the academy best serve its students? How should research outputs be funded?

Will the academic, scholarly and professional markets still pay for content? Why should they?

Come along to the Royal Institution in London on 24 June to debate these issues first hand with an invited panel of guests – some managing change in established businesses, others looking for more radical alternatives.

The debate will run in two sessions in sequence, first one on teaching and learning in HE, then one on research and reference. Each session will be led by opposing debaters, then the debate will be open to the floor to interact with the panel. The event will conclude with a plenary looking to draw out ideas and observations from the debate that can help us to achieve our respective missions. How might we act together? How can content be sustainably delivered?

Panellists will include:

Teaching and learning:
Liam Earney, Collections Team Manager, JISC Collections
Eric Frank, Founder and Chief Marketing Officer, Flat World
Knowledge
Roger Horton, CEO, Taylor and Francis
Dominic Knight, Managing Director, Palgrave Macmillan

Research and reference:

Nick Baker, Head of Global Medical Research, Elsevier Group
Louise Edwards, Director, The European Library
David Hoole, Head of Brand Marketing, Nature Publishing Group
Professor Charles Oppenheim, Department of Information Science,Loughborough University
Frances Pinter, Publisher, Bloomsbury Academic
David Prosser, Director, SPARC Europe

The conference will be chaired by David Worlock, Chief Research Fellow, Outsell (UK) Ltd

Who should attend?

The issues will engage all stakeholders in higher education and
research: strategy and policy managers, fund holders, library professionals, academics, researchers, publishers and students.

Thinking About the Business Of Change: Change Management and Business Planning for Library and Information Services Joint HLG Wales/IFMH Study Day will take place on the 8th May at the Angel Hotel in Cardiff.
Costs:
* HLG/HLGW/IFMH members £50 (plus VAT = 57.50) if booked from 1st
April, 2009.
Non-members £70 (plus VAT = £80.50) regardless of date booked
Registration available from http://www.ifmh.org.uk/studyday0509.html .
Speakers:
* David Peacock, Knowledge Services & E-learning Manager, North
East Workforce Team, NHS North East – Stragic planning toolkit: an opportunity to familiarise yourself with a number of tools aimed at supporting your strategic planning
* Joanne Stemp, Trust Librarian, Gateshead Health NHS Foundation
Trust – Planning in practice: one librarian’s experience of developing library strategy
* Dr Judith Broady-Preston, Department of Information Studies,
Aberystwyth University – Change Management: a survival kit
* Wil Williams, Principal Lecturer, Business School, University of
Glamorgan – Change Management: a view from different perspectives
* Caroline Plaice, Faculty Librarian, Health and Life Sciences,
University of the West of England – Moving on up: change management in practice.

Registration available from http://www.ifmh.org.uk/studyday0509.html

Cambridge Centre, Villiers Park, Foxton, Cambridge, CB22 6SE Wednesday 6th May 2009, 9.30a.m.- 4.30p.m.

What is the role of libraries when people already have access to everything?

Digital natives call, send text messages and pictures, play games and download music all at the same time – they think email, books and paper are outmoded – where does that leave us, as professionals, struggling to provide information services to this generation?
What happens next….? Can the new generation of digital native information professionals show us the future?

This seminar will challenge your perceptions of what libraries services are and how they are changing. Share the vision of the future with leading information studies lecturers and their students, with new professionals and current leaders in the library world.

Cost for the day including lunch is 85 + VAT (£12.75)

Leaflet with further details: http://www.elipp.org.uk/ISGdigital2009.pdf
Online booking: http://www.elipp.org.uk/bookingform1.shtml

Run by CILIP East of England Information Services Group
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Sheila Thomas BA MCLIP MWeldI
Weldasearch Manager
sheila.thomas@twi.co.uk
TWI Ltd, Granta Park, Great Abington, Cambridge, CB21 6AL, UK www.twi.co.uk & weldasearch.com

http://www.elipp.org.uk/ISGdigital2009.pdf

CILIP Training & Development are pleased to announce our April training courses. Places are already filling up so request to hold a place today with our provisional bookings. Provisional bookings hold your place for 10 working days whilst you organise any paperwork – there is no financial commitment with a provisional booking.

Don’t forget – CILIP members receive up to 40% discount on all CILIP training.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS FOR LIBRARY AND INFORMATION STAFF
1 & 2 APRIL 2009, NEWCASTLE
Ideal for those new to working in a library or information service or as a refresher, this two-day course covers the core skills needed from basic enquiry handling skills, to cataloguing and classification, to library management and promoting your service. A popular CILIP course that will book fast!

PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS
* Understanding your role
* Keeping order: controlled language indexing and thesaurus construction
* Library databases
* Dealing with difficult users

FULL DETAILS: http://www.cilip.org.uk/training/training/2009/libinfo/essentialskills.htm

CATALOGUING AND CLASSIFICATION
28 & 29 APRIL 2009, LONDON
“Cat & class” is a central function of any information service, underpinning the quality of the service to your users. This popular two-day CILIP course provides a basic introduction to the skills of information organisation, understanding the principles involved in AACR2, Dewey and MARC.

PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS
* Overview of information organisation and descriptive cataloguing
* Classification and Dewey
* MARC and computerised bibliographic data
* Subject access using language
* Holding the data together – Authority structures FULL DETAILS: http://www.cilip.org.uk/training/training/2009/catandclass/catandclass.htm

USING BLOGS, WIKIS AND RSS FEEDS
30 APRIL 2009, LONDON
A highly practical CILIP course that will see you creating a weblog, a wiki and learn how to use RSS feeds. You will gain a good grounding in the field of Web 2.0, helping raise the profile of your services and enable you to deliver them differently. A popular course that will book fast!

PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS
* Web 2.0 in context
* Weblogs – exploration, searching and using
* Creating and using wikis and RSS
FULL DETAILS: http://www.cilip.org.uk/training/training/2009/ict/usingblogswikisandrssfeeds.htm

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SUBJECT HEADINGS
22 APRIL 2009, LONDON
Library of Congress subject headings (LCSH) are now the dominant form of language based subject access used in the MARC format. Learn how to select and build simple and complex subject headings and understand the significance of pattern headings. This established one-day CILIP course will provide a background to the origin and evolution of the Library of Congress subject headings.

PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS
* How to select basic headings, navigating the subheadings
* Geographic headings and subheadings
* LCSH and MARC 21 Authority format
FULL DETAILS: http://www.cilip.org.uk/training/training/2009/catandclass/libraryofcongress.htm

You can browse our full selection of courses for April and the rest of 2009, online. See what we have in store: http://www.cilip.org.uk/trainingcourses