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The UKeiG Annual Seminar brings together a group of experts to share with us some of their thoughts on key issues for the information professional. This year the topic focuses on the constantly-changing technologies and offers insight on how to keep professionally aware in this challenging environment. 

Non-members as well as members of UKeiG are welcome.

There will also be a short AGM for members only at 13.50 pm.
 
UKeiG Annual Seminar
 
'Riding the waves or treading water?  Confronting the challenges of a volatile electronic environment'
 
Bloomsbury Suite, Brunei Gallery, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Wednesday, 13 June 2007, 9.15 - 16.30

Seminar Outline
The aim of the day will be to highlight and discuss key pressure points on e-information professionals at a time when rapidly changing technologies are forcing us to make tough decisions on service prioritisation. Every day we face new innovations in IT and information retrieval, and it is increasingly difficult to see the wood for the trees. What resources will have the most relevance and impact on business processes and stakeholders in your workplace; which others are hype? A new generation of internet savvy professionals and information consumers are coming to the workplace with a very different skills set and interpretation of the digital landscape. How do we develop our training, support and resource delivery tools to

accommodate this new generation? Similarly, what CPD strategies and directions for personal development should we consider to ensure that we

retain our visibility and relevance in increasingly complex knowledge organisations?

Who should attend?
This seminar is open to non-members as well as UKeiG members.  The programme will interest and engage information professionals from all sectors and with all levels of responsibility. It will be of equal interest to students studying library & information science as librarians, information specialists, managers and those responsible for LIS recruitment, budgets and IT.

 
Speakers include:
Peter Godwin. Academic Liaison Librarian at the University of Bedfordshire.

Sue Hill.  Managing Director of Sue Hill Recruitment.

Jan-Martin Lowendahl.  Research Director, Gartner Research

Val Skelton. Head of Training and Learning at TFPL Ltd.

 
Programme
9.15 Coffee and Registration
9.45 Introduction. Gary Horrocks (UKeiG Chair), Research & Learning Liaison Manager, King's College London
10.00 Emerging IT trends and tools to deal with hype, maturity and alignment. Dr. Jan-Martin Lowendahl Research Director, Gartner

11.00 Coffee
11.30 Digital natives hit the workplace: fodder for digital culture wars? Dr. Jan-Martin Lowendahl Research Director, Gartner

12.10 Information professionals: swimming upstream, or going with the flow. Sue Hill, Managing Director, Sue Hill Recruitment

12.50 Lunch
13.50 UKeiG AGM
14.20 Who is managing information? Val Skelton, Head of Training and Learning, TFPL Ltd
15.00 Tea
15.20 Information Literacy in the Age of Amateurs. Peter Godwin, Academic Liaison Librarian, University of Bedfordshire
16.00 Panel Discussion Chair: Gary Horrocks
16.30 Close
 
Costs (including lunch and refreshments):
UKeiG members £80 + VAT (£94.00); others £100 + VAT (£117.50)
 
To register your interest in this seminar, reserve a place, or request further details, please email [log in to unmask] Further details are also available via the UKeiG website at www.ukeig.org.uk

Or please complete and return this form by 6th June 2007, to Christine Baker, Piglet Cottage, Redmire, Leyburn, North Yorkshire DL8 4EH

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