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**Apologies for cross-posting** UKeiG Members' Day and AGM to be held at Bloomsbury Suite, Brunei Gallery, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG. Wednesday, 14 June 2006, 9.30 - 16.30 Desktop Search Tools - Managing the Flight Deck The information profession struggles on a day-to-day basis to keep up to date with innovations and shifts in new technologies for smarter searching. The focus, often, is on the need to retrieve and assimilate external information and data. In the mean time, our personal digital files and internal local resource base tends to fall into neglect. The focus on efficient information management is now moving to the desktop, where different types of information stored or accessed locally needs to be organised and searched just as effectively. The desktop has developed into a flight deck where everything the pilot needs to know is displayed: be it routine flight information, autopilot routines, the tricky landing and take-off or the all-important emergency procedures. The key for both the pilot and the desktop user is to be able to access the right information at the right time, and to distinguish the vital from the nice-to-know. Desktop access to vast amounts of in-house data, as well as access to the intranet and external resources means that effective searching, as well as good design of the desktop screens, is essential. Numerous desktop search solutions tease us with the promise that they can help to organise and find information on the desktop PC as well as across the corporate network. This meeting will look at some developments in desktop searching and some of the tools that are available and will give you the opportunity to share your experience of such tools. It will be a practical and informative day that will help improve your personal information management skills and enable you to lay your hands, quickly and efficiently, on that long lost file that you ferreted away for digital posterity way back in... Programme Chairman: Gary Horrocks 9.15 Coffee and Registration 9.45 Introduction and overview of developments for the desktop Gary Horrocks (UKeiG Chair), Research & Learning Liaison Manager, King's College London 10.00 Windows Desktop Search Tools David Graham Search Business Manager,MSN-UK 10.40 Coffee 11.00 Copernic Desktop Search Martin Bouchard Copernic 11.40 Research for Search Stephen Robertson Microsoft Research UK 12.30 Lunch 13.30 AGM 14.00 ISYS 7 Desktop Search Speaker to be confirmed 14.40 Tea 15.00 Desktop search tools compared: the good, the bad and the ugly Karen Blakeman RBA Information Services 16.00 Panel Discussion Chair: Gary Horrocks 16.30 Close UKeiG is a Special Interest Group of CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE. Registered Charity No. 313014. Booking Form -------------------- Desktop Search Tools - Managing the Flightdeck Brunei Gallery, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG Wednesday, 14 June 2006, 9.30 - 16.30 Costs (including lunch and refreshments): UKeiG members £80 + VAT (£94.00); others £100 + VAT (£117.50) Please complete and return this form by 7th June 2006, to Christine Baker, The Old Chapel, Walden, West Burton, Leyburn, North Yorkshire DL8 4LE. Tel & Fax 01969 663749. Email: [log in to unmask] Name(s)............................................................................................... Organisation............................................................................................ Address................................................................................................. ............................................................................................................................................................................... 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Cancellations received less than 7 working days before the start of the course will be subject to the full fee. For non-attendance at a course there will be no refunds and the full fee will be payable. Substitutions may be made at any time without additional cost. UKeiG reserves the right to cancel a course if insufficient bookings have been received. Delegates will be offered an alternative date or a full refund of the course fee. UKeiG reserves the right to make changes to the programme. UKeiG will not be liable for any consequential loss of travel or accommodation fees due to cancellation of the course.