Sinking in the Information Bog!
UKOLUG, the UK e-information group and professional body for users and developers of electronic information resources, have experienced great interest in their newly designed web-pages (www.ukolug.org.uk). Particularly popular have been their wide-ranging free factsheets, including one on blocking pop-up windows whilst you are on the web (www.ukolug.org.uk/content/public/factsheets/popup_blocking), which has proved a particular favourite.
Other free factsheets, including ones on 'Spyware' and 'Intranet success factors', have also proved of great interest to website users.
There are also sheets giving tips on Referencing and Reference Management Software. A course on the latter, run by UKOLUG, is currently taking bookings with details on the webpage (http://www.ukolug.org.uk/content/public/activities/meetings/23jun04_refman.html)
Searches on the page have included some fairly standard online user interests, including searches for 'bibliographic software' and 'e-commerce'. There have been some more unusual searches though. Whoever was searching for an 'information bog' may have simply mis-spelt 'blog' or, perhaps, may have been caught sinking under information overload. The UKOLUG course, "I'm an information professional - get me out of here!" (www.ukolug.org.uk/content/public/activities/meetings/8jun04_getme)
may have been helpful to them.
However, whoever found themselves looking for 'basketball' and 'basketball shoes' on the UK e-Information Group pages may have been desperate, and ultimately sadly disappointed.
Robert Hughes
UKOLUG Marketing and PR
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