The PPRG are looking for new committee members. We have a current vacancy for a Treasurer and will also shortly be looking for a new Secretary.
If you would like to join the committee or know more about it, please email the chair, Davina Omar, on davina.omar@uwl.ac.uk
The PPRG committee is looking for new people following the departures of some long standing members. This is an exciting time to join the committee as we look to the future to see how we would like to develop the group and build on the successes so far.
The committee is meeting on the 24th February and it would be ideal to have new members join us for this.
There is no need for you to be in a dedicated marketing role at your place of work to join the committee. We are looking for people who have an interest in marketing and enthusiasm about the topic. As a group, we are committed to representing all types of libraries and welcome committee members from all areas.
We look forward to hearing from you
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Training opportunities during the Cambridge Information and IP Meeting (CIIPM) to be held at Homerton College Conference Centre, Cambridge, UK from 22nd - 23rd March 2017. They provide an opportunity to update skills and learn new techniques.
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This simple booklet provides interesting facts and figures on the intellectual property landscape and how it has impacted on the UK economy in recent years.
It provides information covering:
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The CILIP Travelling Librarian Award is an exciting award jointly sponsored by the English Speaking Union (ESU) and CILIP. Each year It offers the opportunity to an adventurous UK library and information professional who is a CILIP personal member to explore a professional theme or challenge by a study tour of library and related institutions in the USA or a Commonwealth country. Normally the study tour will take place over 2-3 weeks in the Autumn but some have gone at different times of the year by agreement with the sponsors. The successful applicant will receive an award of £3000 to undertake their proposed study tour with other practical help in regard to accommodation and introductions being available as well. The successful applicant will be expected to share the outcomes of their study tour with the profession more broadly.
The 2017 award is now open with a deadline for applications of Wednesday 26 April 2017. The full details of the award can be found on the link below, as well as reports from previous winners. Most recently they have come from university libraries, government libraries and public libraries but they are open to CILIP members in all sectors.
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Marsh's Library in central Dublin, Ireland is advertising a Research Fellowship for three months on early Jewish books. See the link below for more details.
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As part of delivering on the vision of a UK national digital library, Jisc and OCLC announce a partnership to build a new shared service that will aggregate academic bibliographic data at scale, improving library collection management and resource discovery for students and researchers.
Today Jisc announced that OCLC, the global library cooperative, has been awarded the contract to develop a new national bibliographic knowledgebase (NBK).
The NBK, originally proposed in our national monograph strategy, will support the learning and research needs of the UK higher education community. The vision is to extend the capabilities of the current Copac service, by investing in technology that can ingest diverse library data at higher speed and greater volume. The new service will enable a shift in the way that libraries manage their print and digital collections and in the ways that people access those resources.
“This exciting collaborative partnership is an important part of building a national digital library for the UK,”
explains Neil Grindley, head of resource discovery at Jisc.
"The NBK will be a genuine knowledgebase combining information from various sources to tackle the collection management challenges facing UK academic institutions. The building of this system will be a shared community endeavour.
We are working closely with Research Libraries UK (RLUK), the Society of College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL), the British Library, individual representatives from academic libraries, publishers, licensing organisations and service providers to try and really think through how to realise transformational change.”
Neil Wilson, head of collection metadata at the British Library, commented on their involvement:
“With its aim of combining new technology, rich metadata assets and the collective experience of leading library community members, the national bibliographic knowledgebase fits perfectly with the British Library’s strategic objectives for effective collaboration.”
The library community is grappling with two core challenges as budgets come under threat. Firstly, the need to make important decisions about the ongoing management of their print and digital book collections. Secondly, to ensure that researchers and learners have sustainable and convenient access to digital books
The NBK is regarded as a key element in the delivery against these issues, providing a source of information that libraries can confidently rely upon when making decisions about the future of the resources that they manage and make accessible.
Supported by WorldCat, the world’s largest aggregation of library data, the project is due to start in January 2017, with launch of a beta service projected in January 2018.
Speaking on behalf of OCLC, Eric van Lubeek, vice president, managing director OCLC Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Asia Pacific (APAC) said:
“We are simply delighted to be partnering with Jisc for the development of the NBK. We know the importance of this project to UK academia and will seek to engage the whole community. This change will increase the quality and comprehensiveness of information across the whole UK bibliographic ecosystem.
The mechanisms in place as part of the NBK will enable shared bibliographic metadata to flow into WorldCat and other systems, such as global search engines. Libraries around the world are looking forward to being able to easily locate material from the rich collections of UK academic institutions.
The NBK will also interoperate with a number of sources to describe where books are kept, in what formats and under what conditions they are available to be used. Going forward we will build on our collaborative approach to integrate this service with additional discovery, analysis and management tools, including WorldShare Management Services.”
Commenting on OCLC’s appointment, Grindley continues:
“OCLC was selected because they are uniquely positioned to connect library data hubs at scale to the global network. OCLC is built on collaboratively making knowledge sharable and reusable by all contributing libraries and organisations that support discovery and enhancement of that information.
OCLC is also a known quantity in this area as they are already a provider of national and regional bibliographic infrastructure in a number of countries, including in Australia, France, Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands.”
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You are invited to spend a spring afternoon with Alice Ford-Smith (Bernard Quaritch Ltd.) exploring some of London’s early eighteenth century libraries.
This walk will follow in the footseps of bookseller and antiquary John Bagford, whose An account of several libraries in and about London, for the satisfaction of the curious, both natives and foreigners was published in 1708. John Bagford was at the centre of London's book trade, selling collections and helping form new ones. In the process he created a unique record of the libraries that operated in the city he loved. Alice Ford-Smith will guide you through the streets and alleyways of John Bagford's London, introducing this book history pioneer and the libraries he knew so well. The walk will commence from the courtyard of Stationers' Hall at 2 pm and finish approximately 90 minutes later near Barbican underground station.
Numbers are limited to 25 people, and pre-booking is essential. Tickets, which are non-refundable, are £10 each. This event is open to all, so early booking is recommended. Please book your place by clicking 'Book now'.
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The 21st version of the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries holds the general theme "Part of the Machine: turning complex into scalable" and wants to create a dialogue that will address the challenge of creatively transforming these highly synthesised environments into solutions that can scale for the benefit of varied communities.
Event details
18-21 September 2017
Grand Hotel Palace, Thessaloniki, Greece
http://www.tpdl.eu/tpdl2017
Digital libraries are complex systems that respond to the needs of multiple communities with escalating requirements. Undoubtedly the effect of big data in research and development is immense and their collection, aggregation, analysis and interpretation is currently the main trend. However, smaller developments are equally interesting in giving the example of managing highly structured and organised information resources.
In this series of conferences, the dialectic between theory and practice is intense, but always aims to produce a state of the art imagery of digital libraries, or else networked information systems that affect the life of academia, education, culture, society and industry. The components of this "machinery" are interconnected and claim the skills and knowledge of multidisciplinary researchers.
Keynotes
Topics
Contributions are welcomed in the following eight tracks. However, submissions are not limited to the topics included in these tracks, neither it is implied that one paper is associated with one topic.
1. Digital Humanities
2. E-Infrastructures
3. Information Retrieval
4. Semantics
5. Users and Societies
6. Content
7. Data
8. Services
Individual researchers and research groups are invited to submit full papers, short papers, posters and demonstrations on the topics above, but on other relevant topics as well. Their research papers should describe original, unpublished research that is not (and will not be) simultaneously under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Students on any of the above-mentioned topics are encouraged to participate to the Doctoral Consortium (see Call below). A four pages paper, which will appear in the Proceedings volume, is required to be submitted through the Doctoral Consortium track.
Important Dates
Publication in Conference Proceedings
The TPDL2017 proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, ISSN 0302-9743). Therefore all submissions should conform to the formatting instructions described in the “For Authors” webpage. In case your paper includes images or screenshots please ensure that you set image compression at 600dpi when you produce your PDF file.
All full and short papers, posters and demonstrations must be submitted in electronic format (PDF) via the conference’s submission page.
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpdl2017
According to the registration regulation for TPDL2017, inclusion of papers in the proceedings is conditional upon registration of at least one author per paper.
Specific Call for Contributions
Information about specific calls for contributions in TPDL can be found at:
Post-conference Journal Publication
The TPDL2017 Program Committee will also nominate papers they consider highlight work of significance in the field. Authors of these papers are then invited to submit extended version (at least 30% new material) of their papers that expand upon the description of their work by providing more depth and detail on their technical approaches and results. These submissions then go through the International Journal of Digital Libraries (IJDL, ISSN 1432-5012) review process before acceptance in a focused issue of the journal.
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In a new report, Rebooting Learning for the Digital Age, published by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), Jisc's chief executive Paul Feldman, with Sarah Davies and Joel Mullan, calls on university leaders to embrace new technology to meet the challenges faced by the higher education sector.
The report reviews best practice around the world to show how technology is benefiting universities and students through better teaching and learning, improved retention rates and lower costs:
In the US, curriculum redesign using technology-enhanced learning produced better student outcomes in 72% of projects and average savings of 31%; in Australia, the University of New England reduced student drop-out rates from 18% to 12% via learning analytics; and in the UK at Nottingham Trent University, 81% of first-year students increased their study time after seeing their own engagement data.
Paul Feldman, chief executive of Jisc said:
“The Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) puts universities under pressure to improve student satisfaction, retention and employability while managing costs. Digital developments show this can be done, but only where there is strong leadership and suitably-skilled staff.
“Results from the USA and Australia prove students become more engaged in their learning where technology is used well. In the UK, there are some good examples of transformational technology, but these need to become much more mainstream if we are to compete.”
Sarah Davies, co-author of the report and head of higher education and student experience at Jisc, said:
“The examples we reviewed for the report show how technology has become an essential component of an effective and engaging higher education experience.
“Universities and course teams need to identify the approaches that work in their context and embed them into their teaching approaches. Whether this is using learning analytics to identify and support students who may be at risk of under-achieving, using online research to prepare for engaging face-to-face workshops, or creating assignments which support students in public engagement and developing a professional profile.”
Commenting on the report, Nick Hillman, director of HEPI, said:
“Staying ahead of the international competition is a constant battle for world-class higher education institutions and world-class higher education systems. It can’t be done without making full use of new technology.
“This report shows how to do it. There is a potential win:win:win, which is remarkably rare in policymaking. Universities can improve their education, help students and cut costs, all at the same time. But it will only happen if they ensure all staff are on board, if they accept cost savings are a by-product rather than the main goal and, most importantly, if they protect students’ personal data.”
The report makes seven recommendations:
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Subject specialists Allen Crawford-Thomas and Mark Ayton share advice ?on the questions that further education leaders need to ask themselves before developing a digital strategy. Read the original blog post.
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The CILIP in Scotland Annual Conference 2017 ‘Strategies for Success’ takes place in the Apex Hotel, Dundee on 5th and 6th June.
Liz McGettigan, CILIPS President, will host two days of thought provoking presentations, discussion and engagement with Scotland’s library and information community.
CILIPS will also host a CILIP Employer Engagement Breakfast and there will be a supplier exhibition across both days.
Keynote speakers for 2017 include:
This year’s programme features:
Book your place: https://cilips.formstack.com/forms/cilipsconference2017
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Ben Bailey Smith, Gill Furniss MP and Chris Riddell (left to right)
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Actor Ben Bailey Smith and Children’s Laureate Chris Riddell joined politicians in a packed committee room at the House of Lords last night to launch the new All Parliamentary Group for Libraries.
Rob Wilson, Civil Society Minister, whose responsibilities include public libraries in England told the audience that he will use the 1964 Public Libraries and Museums Act against local authorities that can’t justify library closures.
Addressing a room full of MPs and Peers he said he aimed to take a strategic view of the problems facing the public library sector, “The challenge is to think strategically about reform and service delivery and not to tinker with the service piecemeal.”
The Minister made his strongest statement yet about policing library closures, “Councils really need to make these decisions based on robust evidence rather than being ad hoc and reactive. They should gather the evidence on local needs and actively consult local people and local professionals on the options to meet these needs. I also expect councils to consider a full range of funding and delivery options before making significant cuts. If we receive complaints at DCMS and where councils do not appear to be meeting their statutory duties, we will investigate and where needed we will take action under the 1964 act.”
CILIP, the library and information association has been campaigning for the public’s right to quality public library services. My Library By Right holds central and local Government to account for their legal duties under the 1964 Public Libraries and Museums Act to provide ‘comprehensive and efficient’ public library services.
At the event the new Chair of the APPG, Gill Furniss MP said, “I was brought up on a council estate in Sheffield and my dad was a reader. When I was four he took me with him to the public library and it was like walking into an Aladdin’s cave.”
She added, “If my dad hadn’t taken me to that library I do not think I would be stood here as a Member of Parliament for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough. I’ve got my career and the knowledge it gave me which drove me on to go and get a degree and eventually become a Councillor.”
Commenting on her role she said, “What I have to say in response to the Minister is that many challenges have been placed on the libraries sector in the last few years, some of them becoming increasingly difficult. And as chair of the APPG I don’t mind falling out with the minister. If there’s a cause to be fought for I’ll go and tell him about it. So I’m just putting him on warning there.”
At the event Ben Bailey Smith, actor, rapper, comedian and children’s author gave an exclusive reading of a new work by best-selling author Ben Aaronovitch who is a trustee of Cityread London, the capital's library development charity which boosts library attendance and has generated £1.5m for library programmes since its launch in 2012.
Before the reading Ben said, “I’m not here by coincidence. I was raised on a council estate in North West London and shared a bedroom with my sister who was very annoying and used to read constantly through the night and keep me up and force me to read the books she read so I grew up reading Judy Bloom and Little Women that brought me to tears … but as much as she bugged me she got me into the library culture.” His sister is the acclaimed author Zadie Smith.
The All Parliamentary Group will promote the role of libraries across society and the economy. Libraries in communities, businesses, schools and Universities provide everyone with opportunities to ensure the UK benefits from a high-skilled economy and equal society.
CILIP supported the launch of the APPG and will provide its secretariat. Nick Poole, Chief Executive of CILIP reminded the audience of the wider community of 30-40,000 libraries staffed by, “an army of 90,000 librarians adding value making a profound contribution to the social and economic fabric of our great nation.”
CILIP and Health Education England have recently launched a new campaign, A Million Decisions, to remind health service leaders in England of their responsibility to ensure evidence-based practice under the Health and Social Care Act. The campaign highlights the beneficial outcomes when healthcare services are planned and delivered with input from dedicated health librarians and knowledge services. The campaign hashtag #amilliondecisions has received over one million impressions in twenty-four hours.
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mark.taylor@cilip.org.uk
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1. CILIP, the library and information association is the leading voice for the information, knowledge management and library profession. Our goal is to put information and library skills and professional values at the heart of a democratic, equal and prosperous society .CILIP is a registered charity, no. 313014.
2. Cityread London is a registered charity that promotes the key ideas of reading for pleasure, engaging new library users, enhancing the experience of existing readers, and encouraging people to explore and celebrate London’s culture, landscape and history. Cityread London represents culture for all, with library services in London, Reading and Slough developing a programme of reading, activities and events using a variety of formats including ebooks, audiobooks, large print, and in translation where possible, aimed at encouraging readers at all levels.
Founded in 2012 it has featured: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (Penguin), 2012; A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks (Vintage), 2013; My Dear I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young (Borough Press), 2014; Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch (Gollancz) 2015; Ten Days by Gillian Slovo (Canongate) 2016.
Further details of all Cityread London activity can be found at the website: www.cityread.london and at Facebook.com/CityreadLondon
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Dr Darren Bevin will be giving a presentation on Chawton House Library, the Hampshire study centre for English women’s writing from 1600 to 1830 and home to rare books and manuscripts by authors including Jane Austen and Mary Shelley.
Dr Bevin was previously Senior Library Assistant at the Faculty of Divinity Library at the University of Cambridge. His 17-year career also includes librarian posts at the University Centre César Ritz in Switzerland and Manchester Metropolitan University.
Please email janine.hall@berkshire.nhs.uk to book your place.
United Kingdom
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At this year’s BETT Jisc unveiled developments that support higher and further education in making the most of big data to support student success. Jisc is pleased to announce its newest partners as part of the next exciting phase of its national learning analytics platform.
Working in partnership with Excelsoft and DTP Solutionpath, Jisc will be able to offer its member institutions the chance to deploy the products offered by these suppliers, building on top of Jisc’s national learning analytics platform.
The partnership will enable DTP Solutionpath, Excelsoft and Jisc to develop and share case studies to highlight the benefits to universities and colleges that can be achieved through using learning analytics services.
Howard Hall, group managing director of DTP Solutionpath comments,
“DTP Solutionpath is delighted to be joining forces with Jisc within the Jisc learner analytics partnership to pool our collective expertise and experience in helping accelerate the adoption of learner analytics across the UK higher and further education sectors.
I believe the partnership will play a significant role in supporting UK universities and colleges in delivering a personalised learner journey, improved student experiences and of course better academic outcomes, as well as significantly reducing the time to value for institutions.”
Back in 2015 Jisc’s learning analytics project created the learning analytics procurement framework, to enable Jisc to secure products and services to build a learning analytics service for its members. Two years on and the marketplace for learning analytics has changed dramatically with new products and services regularly coming to market. The aim of the learning analytics partnership is to facilitate innovation and develop relationships with new suppliers so that Jisc and its members can easily access new products and services as they become available.
Gabriel Engelhard, business development manager for Excelsoft UK/Europe, comments:
“Excelsoft considers it a privilege both to work alongside a respected organisation like Jisc but also to be actively involved in projects that will benefit students and teaching staff in the UK higher and further education sector through our wealth of sector experience and technological expertise. We are pleased to work again with Jisc having done so in 2004 on the TOIA project (Technology for Online Interoperable Assessment) which saw a Lite version of our Saras Test and Assessment Engine made available to the UK higher education sector.
Excelsoft has shown a total commitment to education over the last 16 years with products and solutions which are used worldwide by the education sector in areas ranging from data analytics, educational positioning systems, interactive book platforms, test and assessment to learning management systems among others. We truly look forward to a true partnership where our technologies have a measurable impact on all aspects of teaching and learning.”
Phil Richards, chief innovation officer at Jisc said:
“Through our national learning analytics endeavour, Jisc is giving our higher and further education members the collaborative benefits of working together on a national scheme, whilst also allowing them more easily to tap into the best commercial solutions in the marketplace.
To that end, we are delighted to now be working in close partnership with DTP Solutionpath and Excelsoft – an arrangement from which all parties should benefit.”
For more information on the learning analytics partnership and how it can support your institution, please contact Mark Harrington, co-design manager at Jisc.
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The imperative to increase use of technology and improve the digital skills capability of the workforce is a common thread running through recent government and sector reports. How are skills providers meeting these challenges and using digital technologies to enhance the learning experience? Listen to our podcast, written by Clare Killen, or read her original blog post.
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A new campaign will remind health service leaders in England of their responsibility to ensure evidence-based practice under the Health and Social Care Act1. It highlights the beneficial outcomes when healthcare services are planned and delivered with input from dedicated health librarians and knowledge services.
Launching on 30 January, ‘A Million Decisions’ is jointly led by CILIP, the library and information association, and Health Education England (HEE), who work together to support decision-makers and those delivering health services to make good use of library and knowledge skills to meet their obligations under the Act.
Professor Ian Cumming OBE, Chief Executive, HEE said: “Every day across the healthcare sector more than a million decisions are made which have a profound impact on people’s lives and which influence the quality and cost of healthcare services. The Government and health organisations have obligations under the Health and Social Care Act to ensure the use of evidence from research and to make use of the best available evidence in their decision-making.”
Nick Poole, CILIP Chief Executive said: “We encourage anyone responsible for healthcare services to take a look at the astonishing impact on the cost and quality of care when healthcare teams have good access to the specialist expertise of clinical librarians and knowledge specialists.
To those leading healthcare services, it’s a call to ensure that your part of the NHS or sector is meeting its duties under the Act, and where there are gaps, to work with CILIP and HEE to put arrangements in place so that your organisation and staff are able to access the evidence to inform their practice and decision-making.”
Health librarians within the NHS and wider healthcare sector can be called on to supply specialist knowledge to all members of multidisciplinary teams including doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, managers and learners to support daily practice and decision making. Evidence of impact collected for the campaign shows how working alongside a specialist librarian delivers a wide range of beneficial outcomes, including freeing up time for clinicians and managers, reducing admission times, transforming care for long-term conditions and significantly reducing costs and inefficiencies.
The campaign references the duty on the Secretary of State for Health to ensure ‘the use in the health service of evidence obtained from research’ and the responsibility on Clinical Commissioning Groups and healthcare providers to make use of the best available evidence in their decision-making. 1 Arms length bodies, those commissioning or influencing healthcare services, including those reshaping and improving health services, have a responsibility to promote, monitor and take assurance of the use of evidence-based decision making.
cilip.org.uk/amilliondecisions
#amilliondecisions
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“I sincerely believe that the NHS can be a better organisation when library and knowledge support is harnessed in the right way. We’ve experienced some amazing moments at Wirral where this has been the case. Risk has been avoided by providing evidence that prevented a surgical procedure for a particular patient to take place. Service redesign has been informed by best practice and learning from others who have done it before. Knowledge that we’ve brokered has been used to write business cases, develop clinical guidelines and inform decisions about individual patients. We’re working really hard to embed library and knowledge services in the organisation so that everyone who needs it has access to our unique skills as library and knowledge service professionals.”
Victoria Treadway, Library & Knowledge Service Lead, Wirral University Teaching Hospital
“As a Critical Care consultant, I need to make very quick decisions about the most seriously ill patients in the hospital; having a librarian working in my team helps me to ensure that any knowledge-related risk is avoided. The Library & Knowledge Service has supported me on ward rounds, which is particularly helpful when we have any gaps in knowledge around a particular condition or treatment. I recall one particular incident when we adjusted our treatment of a patient with a life-threatening skin condition as a direct result of evidence that Victoria found for us. Victoria also takes a role in disseminating knowledge across the department so that we can develop a culture of learning and improvement.
I have worked for long enough with Victoria to realise that it benefits me and my team to have a librarian as a wingman on anything that I work on, and I recognise the huge potential that this group of professionals has to contribute to the wider NHS, should we harness their skills in the right way.”
Dr Girendra Sadera, Clinical Director Theatres & Anaesthesia, Consultant Critical Care & Anaesthesia, Wirral University Teaching Hospital
"Putting timely knowledge into the hands of healthcare professionals working across care settings is vitally important for making clinical decisions that are based on sound evidence. With unprecedented time pressures on health professionals, embedded health librarians and knowledge services to support them in clinical and community settings are a vital resource.”
Professor Wendy Reid. Director of Education and Quality, Medical Director HEE
“All healthcare students and trainees should have access to the best available evidence to ensure they do their very best to care safely and effectively for those that put their lives in their hands. Our excellent library and knowledge services, easily accessible and available, underpins the training that nurses undertake and supports them through their revalidation.”
Lisa Bayliss-Pratt, Director of Nursing and National Deputy Director of Education and Quality, Health Education England
“The development of increasingly effective Primary Healthcare services is pivotal to the population's future health and wellbeing. Primary Healthcare requires support from agile knowledge services, led by healthcare librarians, that both understand and are truly responsive to its needs. They will need to supply knowledge to inform planning and delivery of improvements within Primary Healthcare that results in better value for individuals and communities alike."
Dr Johnny Marshall, OBE, Westongrove Partnership
1. Health and Social Care Act 2012 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/...
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A session on Information Modelling Using Data will be held at the UKeIG 2017 Members' Day and AGM on Thursday 16th March 2017. Full details of programme and how to register an expression of interest can be found in the attached document.
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The 39th Annual General Meeting of UKeiG, the UK eInformation Group, will be held at CILIP HQ, Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE on Thursday 16th March 2017. Please see attached documents for details on how to submit motions for it.
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PIUG, Inc., The International Society for Patent Information Professionals, is pleased to announce that applications for the PIUG 2017 Brian Stockdale Memorial Award are now being accepted. The deadline for applying for the PIUG Brian Stockdale Memorial Award is February 28, 2017. If you've previously applied for the award and believe you still qualify, you are welcome to update the essay you submitted earlier so you can be considered for the 2017 award.
Award Package
The award covers membership in PIUG for the current year, conference and workshop registration, and standard travel expenses up to an amount not exceeding $2000, to assist the award recipient in attending the PIUG Annual Conference, an International Conference for Patent Information Professionals. This award is generously underwritten by PIUG, Technology & Patent Research International and Clarivate Analytics, formerly the IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters.
Background
This award is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Brian Stockdale , who travelled extensively throughout the world imparting his knowledge of patent searching. Brian's career encompassed positions with Derwent, SmithKline Beecham, and Technology and Patent Research International. As Brian was so well known internationally and trained many patent information professionals, his work was highly regarded. Brian always relished each new search as a challenge and loved working with the people in this industry. Brian is dearly remembered by his friends and colleagues most of all for his dry wit, keen intellect, and ease of meeting people and socializing wherever he went. As one of the world's most talented patent information search professionals, he is sorely missed. This is our tribute to his personal dedication in training colleagues, particularly those new to the field of chemical patent searching.
Award Selection Process
The award recipient will be new to the patent information profession, with less than 3 years total work experience in the field of patent information. Alternately, the recipient will be a student currently enrolled in a college or university with a demonstrated interest in pursuing a career in patents, preferably a career in patent information.
Potential candidates must submit a short essay, not to exceed 500 words, describing their professional or educational interests, as well as their need for financial assistance with respect to conference attendance. Submissions must include the candidate's name, mailing address, phone number, and email address as well as a description of his or her patent information experience and current employer/university name and address.
Essays must be sent to edlyns@earthlink.net on or before February 28, 2017. The award recipient will be notified on or before March 10, 2017. The award recipient will be recognized during the PIUG Annual Conference in Atlanta, in May 2017.
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These meetings are a chance to share best practice with colleagues responsible for similar library services to housebound residents across London and surrounding areas. The focus at this meeting is how our type of library service is delivered using volunteers managed by library staff.
Please contact Tom Berry if you wish to attend.
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Booking details will follow nearer the event, but if you'd like to express an interest in the meantime please email cilipsw@gmail.com.
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Booking details will follow nearer the event, but if you'd like to express an interest in the meantime please email cilipsw@gmail.com
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This free event considers the importance of continuous professional development, both in preparing for Certification, Chartership and Fellowship, and throughout your career. It is aimed at those who have embarked on the Certification, Chartership or Fellowship process, or who are thinking about it.
There will be the opportunity to view some successful portfolio submissions as well as some practical reflective practice exercises. There will also be a tour of the school library.
You will need to bring along your own lunch, there will not be catering facilitates available at the school as it will be half term.
Learning outcomes
· Improved understanding of how to progress towards the relevant qualification and what you will gain by doing so
· Awareness of the Regulations and assessment criteria
· An understanding of what constitutes a portfolio and why CILIP requires this for submission for its qualifications
· Ideas about how to construct a portfolio and the types of evidence that can be included in it
· An enhanced understanding of the benefits of Continuing Professional Development
· Awareness of the support networks and information available to help candidates
· Confidence to progress towards gaining a CILIP qualification successfully
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