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UKeiG announces its Annual Seminar on 13th June 2007 
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 Wednesday, 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
http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2007/june/ridingthewaves.html

Or please complete and return this form by 6th June 2007, to Christine
Baker, Piglet Cottage, Redmire, Leyburn, North Yorkshire DL8 4EH 
Tel & Fax 01969 625751. 
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