When: November 18 @ 18:00 – 21:00pm
Where: Edinburgh University Main Library, Edinburgh
SLA members: free
Non-members: free
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Information is Our Business: Why Businesses Need Information Managers
Speaker event with Katharine Schopflin
In the modern workplace, many people have to make decisions about where they create, manage and store information. Moreover, they are offered a plethora of information repositories in the form of email inboxes, collaboration spaces, fileshares, document management systems and private storage space. As a result, valuable corporate information assets can be irretrievably lost, while server space is filled up with out of date or useless information.
There are a number of reasons why people do not effectively manage their information assets:
· They lack a knowledge of the principles of good information management
· They lack an understanding of the value of information and the risks of losing it
· They appreciate the value of information but are unwilling to share it
In such an environment, how do you work with end-users to capture and utilise high value information?
This talk will consider practical approaches and persuasive arguments for effective information management. It will be of key value to any information professional who works in an organisation which creates as well as acquires information.