Apologies for cross-posting
LIKE, the London Information & Knowledge Exchange, is an informal social and professional networking group of library and information professionals – which has been described as a ‘supper club’, and which anyone can join for free. We run monthly dinners in a Farringdon pub with expert speakers on a range of professional topics that regularly attract full houses of around 40 people. LIKE's membership is very diverse and spans library and information people from all kinds of institutions and areas of practice. Anyone can become a member by joining LIKE’s LinkedIn Group (see below) and anyone can take the opportunity to come to the monthly dinners to learn new things about professional practice and the information society in an informal and very sociable atmosphere.
LIKE started in February 2009 by setting up a group on LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1824702&trk=hb_side_g and since then has grown to nearly 1,000 members. A sister LIKENorth group set up in Leeds and Yorkshire last year. Last June we held our first LIKE Ideas conference on the Business of Social Media attracting 100 participants. We also offer around three to four social events a year.
Next Thursday evening 25th October, LIKE 39 will be on the topic of web harvesting
There are millions of UK websites. They are constantly changing and even disappearing. Often they contain information that is only available online. Responding to the challenge of a potential "digital black hole" the UK Web Archive is there to safeguard as many of these websites as practical. Its purpose is to collect, preserve and give permanent access to key UK websites for future generations.
The UK Web Archive contains websites that publish research, that reflect the diversity of lives, interests and activities throughout the UK, and demonstrate web innovation. All can use it and propose websites for archiving. Because websites are revisited and snapshots ("instances") are taken at regular intervals, readers can see how a website evolves over time.
The archive is free to view, accessed directly from the Web itself and, since archiving began in 2004, has collected thousands of websites. The UK Web Archive is provided by the British Library in partnership with the National Library of Wales, JISC and The Wellcome Library. (Source: http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/info/about )
Dr Peter Webster has just joined the British Library as Engagement and Liaison Officer for the Web Archive. He is a historian of twentieth century Britain, with additional interests in both the recent history and the future of digital scholarship and scholarly communications. He is co-convenor of the Digital History seminar at the Institute of Historical Research (University of London).
Join us to hear his talk about the work on the Web Archive, what it is for, why it was set up, by whom, how it works and what the issues are around it.
Where: The Castle, 34-35 Cowcross St, Farringdon EC1M 6DB http://www.thecastlefarringdon.co.uk/ (note new venue) right across from Farringdon Station (tube and rail)
When: 25th October, 6:00 for 6:30pm
Cost: Meal with wine £17.00 Meal only (buy your own drinks): £12.00
Book your place and meal http://like39.eventbrite.com/
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Barbara Stratton
copyright and information society consultant
libraries, archives, information services & museums
Member of
Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance (LACA) http://www.cilip.org.uk/laca
Copyright and other Legal Matters Committee, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) http://www.ifla.org/clm
Expert Group on Information Law, European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations (EBLIDA) http://www.eblida.org
For up to date information on forthcoming workshops and free visits
please see the online ARLIS/UK & Ireland Events Calendar 2012 at
http://arlis.org.uk/
