SLA Europe Webinar – Getting to Unconscious ‘Working Out Loud’ – a Knowledge Management story

By SLA Europe DigiCommsSeptember 29, 2020Blog, Events

SLA Europe was pleased to welcome Dennie Heye to present an enthralling knowledge management story. As the Knowledge and Information Management (KM/IM) Lead for Discipline Engineering at Royal Dutch Shell, Dennie recounted the ways in which the company has organized its knowledge management efforts, particularly […]

Presidential Elect 2021

By SLA Europe DigiCommsSeptember 28, 2020Blog, Governance

We are excited to announce that nominations are now open for the position of SLA Europe President-Elect for 2021. Please see below for more details from our current president, Seema Rampersad. As President for SLA Europe, I would like to request nominations for the position […]

LMD/SLA Europe Mid-Career Award for SLA Conference 2020

By SLA Europe DigiCommsSeptember 17, 2020Awards, Blog

LMD/SLA Europe Mid-Career Award for SLA Conference 2020 – Deadline extended to 4th October We are pleased to offer four Mid-Career Awards to the virtual SLA Conference (14-16 October 2020). SLA Europe and the Leadership and Management Development (LMD) and strongly believes in advancing the […]

SLA Europe Early Career Conference Award

By SLA Europe DigiCommsSeptember 12, 2020Awards, Blog, Press Releases

SLA Europe are pleased to announce that we are re-opening our Early Career Conference Award (ECCA) this year to sponsor participation in the virtual SLA Annual Conference 2020 (14-16 October for live sessions, with additional asynchronous education sessions). Applicants must meet the following criteria: Must be a current member of SLA and […]

SLA Europe Webinar – Supporting your organisation’s post-COVID-19 response with information and insight with Oliver Guirdham

By SLA Europe DigiCommsAugust 1, 2020Blog, Events

SLA Europe was pleased to welcome Oliver Guirdham from the Business Research Company to present and give some ideas on how research and information managers can efficiently gather information, help their organisations survive and thrive through informed decisions in these difficult times. With organisations adapting […]

Review of ‘The No-nonsense Guide to Research Support and Scholarly Communication’ by Claire Sewell

By SLA Europe DigiCommsJuly 17, 2020Blog

SLA Europe are pleased to share the following book review for ‘The No-nonsense Guide to Research Support and Scholarly Communication‘, written by Claire Sewell and published by Facet Publishing. The book has been graciously reviewed by Carol Hollier. About the book This accessible and highly […]

Nominations for the 2020 Taxonomy Boot Camp London Awards are now open

By SLA Europe DigiCommsJuly 15, 2020Blog

Nominations for the 2020 Taxonomy Boot Camp London Awards are now open SLA Europe is pleased to announce that nominations are now open for London’s Taxonomy Boot Camp 2020 Awards. The awards are designed to highlight the very best practitioners and organisations working with taxonomies […]

SLA Europe Webinar – Experimenting with Mind-Mapping: Concepts and Tools with Hal Kirkwood

By SLA Europe EventsJuly 7, 2020Events

SLA Europe Webinar – Experimenting with Mind -Mapping: Concepts and Tools with Hal Kirkwood Mind-mapping is a technique for individual or group knowledge reflection and brain-storming, enabling the visualisation of concepts and ideas. It can also be used during instruction to demonstrate the scope of […]

SLA Europe Conference 2021: expressions of interest – June 2020

By SLA Europe DigiCommsJune 29, 2020Conference, Press Releases

SLA Europe Conference 2021: expressions of interest – June 2020 SLA Europe delivered a very successful inaugural conference in Cambridge, in September 2019. Attended by over 60 delegates, it featured an outstanding combination of keynote speakers and breakout sessions. Various social opportunities, including the conference […]

SLA Europe Webinar – Covid 19 and its impact on business research requirements and forecasts

By SLA Europe EventsJune 9, 2020Events

On 3rd June, Ben Longman of Trendtype presented the third in our series of webinars connected to the impact of the pandemic. Ben talked about what the rapidly-evolving Covid-19 situation has meant both for forecasts and examined the type of information that is now critical […]

SLA statement against racism and unequal treatment

By SLA Europe DigiCommsJune 3, 2020Press Releases

SLA HQ recently released their statement against racism and unequal treatment, which you can find copied below. SLA’s Diversity Inclusion Community Equity Community (DICE) also provides many resources to promote equality in the association and the profession, as well as a space for open discussion […]

SLA Europe Webinar – Managing the mental stresses and strains of the changing work environment

By SLA Europe EventsMay 26, 2020Events

Last week, Cathrine Hertz-Sondergard (Events Committee) moderated a recent presentation titled, ‘Managing the mental stresses and strains of the changing work environment: where to turn?’ This webinar is in a series of online events hosted and organised by SLA Europe in response to the pandemic […]