Find information fast – but where?

Speaker: Gary Archer, Information Services Librarian, Solihull Central Library

Date: Thursday, 13th September 2012

Time: 6.30pm

Venue: The Square (Wine Bar), Tolmers Square, Somers Town, London NW1
Map: http://g.co/maps/w973q

Library Reference Services, and professionally-trained staff, are increasingly seen as irrelevant in the digital age; publishers are cancelling long-standing, successful titles to cut costs and meet market changes.

The popularity of shows such as QI, plus Q&A-type newspaper columns and discussion lists and the use of social media for seeking answers demonstrates people’s need for information. Yet, this is not reflected in library reference services.

Gary will examine the decline in reference publishing and explore the role libraries can play in providing reliable, quality information.

Gary Archer has over 30 years experience as a librarian, mostly running information services. He has been described as one of a dying breed!  He has a strong interest in information sources - to the extent of collecting non-traditional reference publications, such as Notes and Queries-type titles.  Gary is reviewer for the Information Services Group’s magazine Refer and has been a winner of the Whitakers Almanac annual quiz.

This talk will be of particular value to anyone registered for CILIP Chartership and can contribute towards CPD requirements. Refreshments will be available afterwards.

Please book via the form located at: http://tinyurl.com/CiLSep2012. It would be helpful if you could say how you found out about this event.

CILIP in London evening meetings are free to CILIP members (with a £5 donation invited from non-members) and are open to all with a professional interest in the topic.  
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This event has kindly been sponsored by Credo Reference.

Alan Fricker

Knowledge & Library Service Manager

Barts Health NHS Trust

Newham University Hospital

Glen Road, Plaistow, E13 8SL

T: 020 7363 8016

F: 020 7363 8087

Website: www.bartshealth.nhs.uk

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