Dear list members

We invite you to this new style event on
Tuesday 24 March 2015 18:30-21:00
at CILIP (http://www.cilip.org.uk/sites/default/files/documents/How%20to%20get%20to%20CILIP%20map_0.pdf) 
7 Ridgmount St, 
London WC1E 7AE
   
Join us at this first ever evening meetup event to celebrate the launch of Facet Publishing's new "A Handbook for Corporate Information Professionals". It gives a cutting-edge overview of the issues and opportunities for information professionals in rapidly-changing environments, and contains contributions from a wide range of sectors and specialisms. 
The meetup brings together the book's editor and three contributors, who will each introduce their particular chapters, followed by an audience Q&A and time for networking. Refreshments will be provided courtesy of  Facet Publishing, and there will be a prize draw to win a copy of the book. This meetup is a new format for an ISKO UK event and is a chance for attendees to learn from their peers in a post-work, informal yet focused way.
See the programme and register by 20th March at the ISKO UK website http://www.iskouk.org/content/meet-findability-and-information-management-corporate-workplace

Speakers

Dr Katharine Schopflin is a corporate information professional with more than 15 years’ experience. She has worked in various sectors including media, government and non-profit, in a range of knowledge and information management and research roles. She speaks regularly on information issues, is the editor of A Handbook for Media Librarians (Facet Publishing, 2008), and publishes regularly in the library and information press. She recently completed her PhD on the nature of the encyclopaedia as a form of the book at University College London’s Department of Information Studies.

Helen Lippell is an experienced data and information professional. She started out doing text analytics at the Financial Times, and has also delivered search and metadata projects for the BBC, Nature, Directgov, Time Out and the Press Association. These have ranged from delivering a customer-facing, evidence-based taxonomy to developing the prototype of a next-generation metadata curation and management tool. She is a regular conference speaker, recently delivering papers at ISKO UK and DAM (Digital Asset Management) EU, both major events in the taxonomy and media asset management world.

James Mullan joined European law firm Fieldfisher in 2009 as Knowledge Management Systems Manager. Prior to that, he was at CMS Cameron McKenna LLP where he was an information officer based in the Knowledge and Information Services Team. At Fieldfisher he is responsible for the management and development of the firm’s intranet. He is also responsible for the firm’s precedent collection (Knowledge Bank), the Knowledge Search which uses the Recommind MindServer product, and the development of blogs, wikis and other social media tools. James is a regular conference speaker and has contributed articles to a number of legal and knowledge management journals. He maintains his own blog (the Running Librarian) and is an active member of the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL). In 2009 he won the WILDY-BIALL Librarian of the Year award.

Danny Budzak has been working with digital technologies for over 30 years, in fact, from the days when they were described as ‘new’. He started by building community information databases in libraries using Videotext running on Unix. This was obliterated by the world wide web, but it taught him how to organize information and that technologies do not necessarily improve in a linear way. He smartly adapted to change and became one of the UK’s first local authority web editors. He remains fascinated and infuriated in equal measure with information systems and the never-ending number of devices that can be used to access them. He finds no purpose for smartphones and, having an encyclopaedic knowledge of London’s pubs, has no clear idea of what other apps might be of use. However, he is intrigued by the development of big data, smart data and the internet of things, but wonders how one opts out of them. In his spare time he reads a lot of books, always paper, with hardback covers, and has recently become involved in a project to record medieval graffiti in churches.

We hope you can join us for an informative and entertaining evening with ISKO UK

Many thanks
Fran Huckle
ISKO UK