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A UKeiG Course:
Information Law for Information Professionals:
What you NEED to know about
Copyright, Data Protection, Freedom of Information and Accessibility and
Disability Discrimination Laws
to be held at
CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
Tuesday, 19th February 2008, 9.30-16.30
Course Outline
In particular, four key legal areas currently affect the work of many
information professionals in the digital environment - copyright, data
protection, freedom of information, and disability discrimination and
accessibility. This one-day introductory course will chart a path through
the complexities of these subjects. Each area will be succinctly overviewed
and the key aspects of the legal regime and requirements in each area will
be outlined and explained. Delegates will be taken step-by-step through the
fundamentals of each area. An understanding of each topic will be
illuminated by real-life examples or scenarios explaining the application of
the laws in a wide range of contexts. The day will also highlight the
inter-relationships between each of these important areas of information
law. There will be opportunities for discussion and exchanges of experience.
The day will close with a presentation on how to manage actively legal
compliance in these areas in an institutional or organisational context.
The sessions will include:
* Copyright: everything the information professional needs to know
* Copyright in action: scenarios and key issues in copyright in an
electronic context
* Data protection: overview of the data protection regime for information
professionals
* Data protection in action: specific issues in information, publishing and
library contexts
* Freedom of information: outline of UK freedom of information laws
(including Scotland)
* Freedom of information in action: compliance and making it work for
information professionals
* Accessibility and disability discrimination law: overview of the legal
regime
* Accessibility in action: key issues in provision of digital information
and services to users
* Managing compliance with information laws in your organisation
Within each area a wide range of topics/problems will be used to shed light
on the problems faced by information professionals, or how the laws can be
used by them in appropriate contexts.
The course will be led by presentations but will include real-life problems
and scenarios for discussion, and plenty of opportunity for questions and
answers.
Who Should Attend
The course is relevant to anyone involved with the legal issues relating to
the creation, storage, accessing, publishing or use of information. Anyone
working with information, especially digital information, or who needs a
sound grasp of the foundations of each of these areas will benefit from the
Course. Those with responsibility for managing one or more of these areas
in their organisation and who need a sound grounding in each of them will
also benefit.
Course Presenter
Laurence Bebbington is Law Librarian and Information Services Copyright
Officer at the University of Nottingham. He is a former Vice Chair of
UKOLUG. He has presented papers or taken seminars on various aspects of
legal issues in information work. He has published various articles and
papers and is a joint editor (with C.J. Armstrong) and contributor to the
2nd edition of Staying Legal: A Guide To Issues And Practice Affecting the
Library, Information and Publishing Sectors, FACET (2003).
UKeiG is a Special Interest Group of CILIP: the Chartered Institute of
Library and Information Professionals.
7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE. Registered Charity No. 313014.
Information Law for Information Professionals:
What you NEED to know about
Copyright, Data Protection, Freedom of Information and Accessibility and
Disability Discrimination Laws
CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
Tuesday, 19th February 2008, 9.30 - 16.30
Costs (including lunch and refreshments):
UKeiG members £130 + VAT (£152.75); others £160 + VAT (£188.00)
Please complete and return this form by 12th February 2008, to Christine
Baker, Piglet Cottage, Redmire, Leyburn, North Yorkshire DL8 4EH. Tel & Fax
01969 625751.
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