Wednesday 9th December 2009
Attendees:
Caroline Mosley, Caroline Covington, Caroline Janukowicz, Diane Harris, Hilary Boucher, Keri Husband, Pat Pritchard, Jasmin Hollingum, Jon Beaumont, Matthew Cadden, Sally Hassall, Stephen Wheeler, Mandy Hulme, Sue Kendall, Helen Dunn, Adele Champken, Natasha Skeen, Paula Biddlestone and Tricia Wyspianska
Steve Wood, Head of Service – Information Services, Central Library
Apologies
Jackie Sellars, Phil Uttley, Christine Newlove, Erica Foster, Hazel Hewison, Alison Parker, Bev Preece, Denise Watkins, Carol Wilson, Rachel Relves and Susanne Homer.
Please note that Phil Uttley is off work following surgery on his knee. If you have any matters to raise from these minutes please contact the remaining committee members, Caroline Mosley, Diane Harris or Caroline Covington.
New Members
Caroline Mosley welcomed Paula Biddlestone who is working at Citadel Chambers and Adele Champken who is now working at Aston University after a 6 month career break.
Seminars
The Company Information seminar on 4th November was fully subscribed and was very successful with all the delegates finding it useful.
7side in Cardiff have held some one hour seminars for various groups on the effect of the Companies Act 2006 on Companies House and are willing to present it to ALLICE members. Those members present agreed that this would be useful to them so the ALLICE Committee will try to arrange for this to take place in January/February 2010.
Is there any interest in ALLICE trying to arrange the next training session on the topic of Web 2.0? If this is something of interest to you, please email Caroline Covington on ccovington@st-philips.com before Christmas.
Subscriptions and Members List
Caroline Covington as Treasurer thanked everyone for their prompt payment of their ALLICE subscriptions. A new members list accompanies these minutes. Please make sure you amend any saved contacts as there have been several changes to the list.
LIM Book Reviews
Caroline Mosley has been approached by the Editorial Board of Legal Information Management as they are looking for book reviewers. In particular, they are looking for someone to review Legal Skills 2nd edition by Finch and Fafinski for the March issue of LIM. Please contact Caroline on caroline.mosley@cobbetts.com by Wednesday 16th December if this interests you.
Social
The committee are planning to organise a social event for late January/February. If you are interested in attending or have a suggestion for a venue, please let one of the committee know. Further details will be sent out in the new year.
Next meeting
The next meeting will be held at No5 Chambers in March (date to be confirmed). Justis will be in attendance to demonstrate their online services, in particular recent developments to JustCite.
A.O.B.
Natasha Skeen is due to finish her maternity cover at the College of Law at the end of January 2010 when Jackie Hanes returns. She is looking for a few months work after her contract ends. If anyone knows of any vacancies or needs a temporary librarian please contact Natasha on natasha.skeen@lawcol.co.uk and she will be happy to provide you with her CV or discuss this further.
Steve Wood, Service Manager, Information Services at Birmingham Central Library gave a very interesting talk about the range of legal and official publications that are available to the general public and businesses. He also gave a progress report on the plans for the new Library of Birmingham which is due to open in June 2013.
Steve has offered to give ALLICE members a tour of the legal and official materials collections at the Central Library. If you would be interested, please contact one of the committee.
Steve also provided the following contact details:
General email: information.services@birmingham.gov.uk
Tel: 0121 303 4545
Steve.wood@birmingham.gov.uk
The committee would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
Web 2.0 event in Birmingham
Back by popular demand, new location, the Commercial, Legal and Scientific Information Group invites you to:
Web 2.0 - the truth behind the hype
Monday 18 January 2010, Hammonds, Rutland House, 148 Edmund Street, Birmingham B3 2JR.
Doors open 6pm, 6.30-8pm
What is web 2.0 and what isn't it?
[Web 2.0] is an "architecture of participation" -- a constellation made up of links between web applications that rival desktop applications, the blog publishing revolution and self-service advertising. This architecture is based on social software where users generate content, rather than simply consume it, and on open programming interfaces that let developers add to a web service or get at data. It is an arena where the web rather than the desktop is the dominant platform, and organization appears spontaneously through the actions of the group, for example, in the creation of folksonomies created through tagging." Wired magazine, 2005
"The promoters of Web 2.0 venerate the amateur and distrust the professional. We see it in their unalloyed praise of Wikipedia, and we see it in their worship of open-source software and myriad other examples of democratic creativity. Perhaps nowhere, though, is their love of amateurism so apparent as in their promotion of blogging as an alternative to what they call 'the mainstream media.'" Nicholas Carr on his blog Rough Type 2005
So who is right? In this seminar Karen Blakeman, Independent Information Trainer and Consultant at RBA Information Services, and Phil Duffy, Information Services Manager at Hammonds LLP will debate the pros and cons of using web 2.0 tools and technologies. This event was sold out and highly rated by attendees in London earlier this year.
There will be a networking reception after the event.
BOOKING DETAILS
All seminars are £10 for CLSIG (and ALLICE) members, £15 for non-members and half-price for the unemployed. To book or for more information please email events@clsig.org.uk.
Cheques should be made payable to CLSIG and sent to Irena Valouchova, Denton Wilde Sapte LLP, One Fleet Place, London, EC4M 7WS or DX242 City. Please note that refunds are only available up to a week before the event.
Travelling details:http://www.hammonds.com/Default.aspx?sID=259&cID=952&ctID=11
CLSIG website: www.clsig.org.uk
Web 2.0 - the truth behind the hype
Monday 18 January 2010, Hammonds, Rutland House, 148 Edmund Street, Birmingham B3 2JR.
Doors open 6pm, 6.30-8pm
What is web 2.0 and what isn't it?
[Web 2.0] is an "architecture of participation" -- a constellation made up of links between web applications that rival desktop applications, the blog publishing revolution and self-service advertising. This architecture is based on social software where users generate content, rather than simply consume it, and on open programming interfaces that let developers add to a web service or get at data. It is an arena where the web rather than the desktop is the dominant platform, and organization appears spontaneously through the actions of the group, for example, in the creation of folksonomies created through tagging." Wired magazine, 2005
"The promoters of Web 2.0 venerate the amateur and distrust the professional. We see it in their unalloyed praise of Wikipedia, and we see it in their worship of open-source software and myriad other examples of democratic creativity. Perhaps nowhere, though, is their love of amateurism so apparent as in their promotion of blogging as an alternative to what they call 'the mainstream media.'" Nicholas Carr on his blog Rough Type 2005
So who is right? In this seminar Karen Blakeman, Independent Information Trainer and Consultant at RBA Information Services, and Phil Duffy, Information Services Manager at Hammonds LLP will debate the pros and cons of using web 2.0 tools and technologies. This event was sold out and highly rated by attendees in London earlier this year.
There will be a networking reception after the event.
BOOKING DETAILS
All seminars are £10 for CLSIG (and ALLICE) members, £15 for non-members and half-price for the unemployed. To book or for more information please email events@clsig.org.uk.
Cheques should be made payable to CLSIG and sent to Irena Valouchova, Denton Wilde Sapte LLP, One Fleet Place, London, EC4M 7WS or DX242 City. Please note that refunds are only available up to a week before the event.
Travelling details:http://www.hammonds.com/Default.aspx?sID=259&cID=952&ctID=11
CLSIG website: www.clsig.org.uk
Friday, 16 October 2009
New book - Information needs of lawyers: A case study evaluating the information needs of lawyers in a major city law firm
Joelle Rogan, Information Specialist with Edexcel Information Service has written a book called:
Information needs of lawyers: A case study evaluating the information needs of lawyers in a major city law firm
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Information-needs-lawyers-evaluating-information/dp/3639195043/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254918198&sr=1-1
The book was written in 2003 for her MSc Information Science at City University and has been published in October 2009.
This book may be of interest to you or your library.
Information needs of lawyers: A case study evaluating the information needs of lawyers in a major city law firm
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Information-needs-lawyers-evaluating-information/dp/3639195043/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254918198&sr=1-1
The book was written in 2003 for her MSc Information Science at City University and has been published in October 2009.
This book may be of interest to you or your library.
Hi
I know this seems a tad early but I have to go into hospital on Monday and will be out of circulation until early December (and might not make the meeting) so please accept this notice as your formal invitation for the 9th December 2009 at 1230 at HBJ Gateley Wareing on Edmund Street (location and directions attached)
Steve Wood from Birmingham Library will be our guest speaker
Please let Caroline Moseley whether or not you intend to be there so that we can make the necessary arrangements for catering, etc.
Additionally, those of you who are CILIP members may have seen the latest edition of Open Access which had significant coverage of Web 2.0 including details of CILIP workshops being run in Birmingham during December at the NTI by Phil Bradley
Web 2.0 Workshops
Internet guru Phil Bradley is running two half-day Web 2.0 Workshops at the New Technology Institute in Birmingham on 17 December. Places are still available and you can download the course programme and booking form at: http://bit.ly/sfgHH
We had begun to develop an ALLICE training event for next Spring on this topic (possibly as a joint venture with BIALL) and would have sounded members out on their interest in this later in the year.
Given these imminent CILIP workshops, though, it might be best to 'test the water' now.
Is anyone planning to attend the CILIP Web 2.0 workshop in December?
If not, could you say if you'd be interested in a ALLICE/BIALL workshop on this topic next Spring?
Please send your replies to a committee member (Caroline Mosley, Caroline Covington or Diane Harris)
I know this seems a tad early but I have to go into hospital on Monday and will be out of circulation until early December (and might not make the meeting) so please accept this notice as your formal invitation for the 9th December 2009 at 1230 at HBJ Gateley Wareing on Edmund Street (location and directions attached)
Steve Wood from Birmingham Library will be our guest speaker
Please let Caroline Moseley whether or not you intend to be there so that we can make the necessary arrangements for catering, etc.
Additionally, those of you who are CILIP members may have seen the latest edition of Open Access which had significant coverage of Web 2.0 including details of CILIP workshops being run in Birmingham during December at the NTI by Phil Bradley
Web 2.0 Workshops
Internet guru Phil Bradley is running two half-day Web 2.0 Workshops at the New Technology Institute in Birmingham on 17 December. Places are still available and you can download the course programme and booking form at: http://bit.ly/sfgHH
We had begun to develop an ALLICE training event for next Spring on this topic (possibly as a joint venture with BIALL) and would have sounded members out on their interest in this later in the year.
Given these imminent CILIP workshops, though, it might be best to 'test the water' now.
Is anyone planning to attend the CILIP Web 2.0 workshop in December?
If not, could you say if you'd be interested in a ALLICE/BIALL workshop on this topic next Spring?
Please send your replies to a committee member (Caroline Mosley, Caroline Covington or Diane Harris)
Thursday, 13 August 2009
Hi
Early warning of the next ALLICE meeting
1230 Wednesday September 2nd 2009 at Anthony Collins, Edmund Street
Please let me have an agenda items - things you'd like to discuss, topics you'd like covered, speakers you've always wanted to hear, etc., etc.
Regards
Phil
Early warning of the next ALLICE meeting
1230 Wednesday September 2nd 2009 at Anthony Collins, Edmund Street
Please let me have an agenda items - things you'd like to discuss, topics you'd like covered, speakers you've always wanted to hear, etc., etc.
Regards
Phil
Tuesday, 9 June 2009
Company Information event 4th November 2009
Hi
Here are details of our next training event
With the rising costs of ‘subscription’ databases, it is critical that information specialists maximise their awareness of free and low-cost sources of on-line company, market and business data to assist them in traditional areas of research and developing business development and marketing activities
This half-day workshop, run by Terry Kendrick at the NTI facility near Millennium Point, will provide delegates with a hands-on opportunity to explore these new sources of information
When : 1.00pm Wednesday 4th November
Where : NTI Birmingham, 15 Bartholomew Row, Birmingham, B5 5JU
Cost : £100 (ALLICE members £85)
Numbers are limited : Closing date for application is 1st October
Email phil.uttley@hammonds.com for an application form
For more information on Terry Kendrick see
http://www.terrykendrick.com
For details of the NTI venue see
http://www.ntibirmingham.co.uk/
Please let me know if there is anything else you need to know about this event
Regards
Phil
Here are details of our next training event
ACCESS TO COST-EFFECTIVE ON-LINE COMPANY INFORMATION TO SUPPORT RESEARCH, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AND MARKETING - AN ALLICE WORKSHOP
With the rising costs of ‘subscription’ databases, it is critical that information specialists maximise their awareness of free and low-cost sources of on-line company, market and business data to assist them in traditional areas of research and developing business development and marketing activities
This half-day workshop, run by Terry Kendrick at the NTI facility near Millennium Point, will provide delegates with a hands-on opportunity to explore these new sources of information
When : 1.00pm Wednesday 4th November
Where : NTI Birmingham, 15 Bartholomew Row, Birmingham, B5 5JU
Cost : £100 (ALLICE members £85)
Numbers are limited : Closing date for application is 1st October
Email phil.uttley@hammonds.com for an application form
For more information on Terry Kendrick see
http://www.terrykendrick.com
For details of the NTI venue see
http://www.ntibirmingham.co.uk/
Please let me know if there is anything else you need to know about this event
Regards
Phil
ALLICE meeting 3rd June 2009 - Minutes
Wednesday 3rd June 2009
Attendees:
Jon Beaumont, Matthew Cadden, Caroline Covington, Diane Harris, Sally Hassell, Hazel Hewison, Jasmin Hollingum, Caroline Janukowicz, Sue Kendall, Caroline Mosley, Alison Parker, Rachel Relves , Jackie Sellars, Phil Uttley
Apologies
Paula Biddlestone, Hilary Boucher, Louise Bowler, Margaret Brittin, Helen Dunn, Erica Foster, Susanne Homer, Lee Houghton, David Houston, Mandy Hulme, Keri Husband, Aileen Johnston, Christine Lambert, Bev Preece, Natasha Skeen, Mike Troon, Stephen Wheeler, Carol Wilson, Tricia Wyspianska, Louise Young
Subscriptions
The meeting voted in favour of an increase in subscriptions to £25 from 1st September 2009
Future events
The meeting supported the plan to run the company information event as proposed and agreed that the focus should be on ‘free’ company information sources with additional references to business development and marketing. The course should, initially, be offered to ALLICE members and then to both ASLIB and BIALL members if capacity allowed.
All members were asked to feed ideas for additional training events to Phil Uttley who would liaise with both Sue Kendall (BIALL) and Alison Parker (ASLIB) so that opportunities for co-operation were maximised. One idea for the future was a Web 2.0 event.
Next meeting
The next meeting will be held at Anthony Collins on Wednesday 2nd September 2009.
Phil Uttley was asked to contact Steve Wood, Service Manager, Information Services at Birmingham Reference Library to see if he could join us for that meeting
A.O.B.
Hammicks would be interested in attending an ALLICE meeting in the future
Members of the Birmingham Law Society who have not received a request to renew their library cards for the BLS library at Aston University, or who are interested in making a bid for any of the BLS stock, should let Pat Pritchard know before she attends the BLS meeting on 10th June
Caroline Covington will advise all members of the address for the Statute Law Revision Society in Hereford
Attendees:
Jon Beaumont, Matthew Cadden, Caroline Covington, Diane Harris, Sally Hassell, Hazel Hewison, Jasmin Hollingum, Caroline Janukowicz, Sue Kendall, Caroline Mosley, Alison Parker, Rachel Relves , Jackie Sellars, Phil Uttley
Apologies
Paula Biddlestone, Hilary Boucher, Louise Bowler, Margaret Brittin, Helen Dunn, Erica Foster, Susanne Homer, Lee Houghton, David Houston, Mandy Hulme, Keri Husband, Aileen Johnston, Christine Lambert, Bev Preece, Natasha Skeen, Mike Troon, Stephen Wheeler, Carol Wilson, Tricia Wyspianska, Louise Young
Subscriptions
The meeting voted in favour of an increase in subscriptions to £25 from 1st September 2009
Future events
The meeting supported the plan to run the company information event as proposed and agreed that the focus should be on ‘free’ company information sources with additional references to business development and marketing. The course should, initially, be offered to ALLICE members and then to both ASLIB and BIALL members if capacity allowed.
All members were asked to feed ideas for additional training events to Phil Uttley who would liaise with both Sue Kendall (BIALL) and Alison Parker (ASLIB) so that opportunities for co-operation were maximised. One idea for the future was a Web 2.0 event.
Next meeting
The next meeting will be held at Anthony Collins on Wednesday 2nd September 2009.
Phil Uttley was asked to contact Steve Wood, Service Manager, Information Services at Birmingham Reference Library to see if he could join us for that meeting
A.O.B.
Hammicks would be interested in attending an ALLICE meeting in the future
Members of the Birmingham Law Society who have not received a request to renew their library cards for the BLS library at Aston University, or who are interested in making a bid for any of the BLS stock, should let Pat Pritchard know before she attends the BLS meeting on 10th June
Caroline Covington will advise all members of the address for the Statute Law Revision Society in Hereford
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