Company Information event 4th November 2009

Hi

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

ALLICE meeting 3rd June 2009 - Agenda

12.30 pm Wednesday 3rd June 2009

Meeting to be held at

Clarke Willmott
138 Edmund St
Birmingham,
B3 2ES

Agenda


1. Apologies

Hilary Boucher, Helen Dunn, Erica Foster, Lee Houghton, David Houston, Mandy Hulme, Keri Husband, Aileen Johnston, Christine Lambert, Bev Preece, Mike Troon, Stephen Wheeler, Tricia Wyspianska, Louise Young

2. Subscriptions

3. Future events

4. Next meeting

5. A.O.B.

ALLICE meeting - 3rd June 2009 - for comment

Hi

The next ALLICE meeting will take place at 12.30 pm on Wednesday 3rd June at Clarke Willmott, 138 Edmund Street

This will be a business meeting, primarily to discuss Association finances and planned activity over the next 12 months

The treasurer's projections of likely income and expenditure using various subscription levels follow this note. We'd like to be able to formulate a proposal on future subscriptions that can be sent out to all members after the meeting. If you can't make the meeting, please let me have your views so that these can be included in the discussion.

We'd also like to develop ideas about putting on more events like the EIA seminar we ran last year. Details of a proposed event showing course fees that would be necessary to make it self-funding follow the treasurer's report. Again, please let us know at the meeting, or before if you're not attending, what you think of this proposal, from both a content and cost perspective.

Please let me know whether you can attend or not

Regards

Phil



Financial Analysis

Bank Balance at 8th May 2009 = £1050

Assumption that we hold 4 meetings per year and each meeting incurs a charge of £250 to cover the cost of food and drink. Therefore, we need to maintain an operating budget of £1000 pa.

Assumption that we are charged £250 for June meeting.

£800 remaining at end of 2008/09 financial year.

The following projections are based on a membership of 40 people.

Option 1 – Maintain membership fee at £15 per person

Assumption that we do not subsidise any training or social events, there is no BIALL Conference bursary or charity donation

2009/10 £15 x 40 = £600
Plus £800 surplus from 2008/09 = £1400
Minus £1000 operating costs
= £400 surplus

2010/11 £15 x 40 = £600
Plus £400 surplus from 2009/10 = £1000
Minus £1000 operating costs
= Zero bank balance

2011/12 Subscriptions would need to increase to £25 per person to provide an operating budget of £1000.


Option 2 – Increase membership fee to £20 per person

Assumption that we do not subsidise any training or social events, there is no BIALL Conference bursary or charity donation

2009/10 £20 x 40 = £800
Plus £800 surplus from 2008/09 = £1600
Minus £1000 operating costs
= £600 surplus


2010/11 £20 x 40 = £800
Plus £600 surplus from 2009/10 = £1400
Minus £1000 operating costs
= £400 surplus

2011/12 £20 x 40 = £800
Plus £400 surplus from 2010/11 = £1200
Minus £1000 operating costs
= £200 surplus

2012/13 £20 x 40 = £800
Plus £200 surplus from 2010/11 = £1000
Minus £1000 operating costs
= Zero bank balance

2013/14 Subscriptions would need to increase to £25 per person to provide an operating budget of £1000.


Option 3 – Increase membership fee to £25 per person

2009/10 £25 x 40 = £1000
Plus £800 surplus from 2008/09 = £1800
Minus £1000 operating costs
= £800 surplus




Company Information Event

Trainer

Terry Kendrick

http://people.netcom.co.uk/r.kendrick/terry/

Venue

NTI

http://www.ntibirmingham.co.uk

Subject

Similar to:

http://www.cilip.org.uk/training/training/2009/research/findingcompanyinformation.htm

Cost

£100 (£85 for ALLICE members)

Date

To be agreed but hopefully before the end of the year

Duration

Half day (pm) Tea & coffee included