Did you send your booking before the festivities started? If not, here's a 
second opportunity to register to attend the OMNI Seminar where the emphasis 
will be on improving access to high quality biomedical resources on the 
Internet. 

***  OMNI - Organising Medical Networked Information  ***

2nd ANNUAL OMNI SEMINAR: Signposting the Digital Landscape

Thursday 23 January 1997
Wellcome Centre for Medical Science, 183 Euston Road, London

The OMNI project is building a gateway to high quality biomedical 
information on the Internet for the higher education and research community 
in the UK. Progress and future developments will be discussed at this 
Seminar. If you are a biomedical librarian/information officer, information 
provider, journalist, end user or computer support staff member with an 
interest in the use of biomedical information for teaching or research, then 
this is a meeting not to be missed!


***  Programme  ***


09.15 Registration and coffee
10.00 Introduction (Frank Norman, OMNI Project Coordinator)
10.05 Keynote address. The future beyond the eLib Programme. (Lynne 
Brindley, Librarian and Director of Information Services, London School of 
Economics, and Chairman of JISC's new Committee on Electronic Information)
10.35 OMNI Progress Report. (OMNI Team)
11.20 Coffee
11.45 OMNI: future strategy. (Sally Hernando, OMNI Project Manager)
12.15 Open Forum
12.40 ROADS and metadata. (John Kirriemuir and Brian Kelly, UKOLN)
13.00 Lunch
14.10 Investigating user assessments of the quality of information retrieved 
via the Internet. (Alison Cooke, University of Wales Aberystwyth, and  OMNI 
Evaluation Criteria Advisory Group)
14.30 The Health On the Net initiatives to get high quality information out 
of the Web. (Ron Appel, Health On the Net Foundation)
14.55 Tea
15.20 Economics of the digital library (Mark Meade, BioMedNet)
15.45 NHSnet, NHSweb and NHSweb Directory (David Smith, Department of Health)
16.10 Closing session (Frank Norman, OMNI Project Coordinator)
14.20 Close

Fee: 50 pounds (including lunch and refreshments)

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*** 2nd ANNUAL OMNI SEMINAR booking form  ***

Please complete and return this booking form, by Tuesday 14 January, 
to Wendy Roberts, Cambridge University Medical Library, Addenbrooke's 
Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2SP.
Tel: 01223 336756; Fax: 01223 331918; Email: [log in to unmask]

2nd Annual OMNI Seminar, 23 January 1997

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Wendy Roberts
Assistant Librarian
Cambridge University Medical Library
Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2SP

Tel: 01223 336756   Fax: 01223 331918
E-mail: [log in to unmask]



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