Event review: Internet Librarian International Conference 2012
John Coll, Head of Access at the National Library of Scotland, kindly reviews the ILI Conference 2012.
Event review: Horizon Scanning 2013
Anneli Carter, an SLA member and information and research specialist, kindly provides her thoughts on the SLA Europe Breakfast in December 2012.
Announcing SLA Europe’s leadership for 2013
After a very successful year, Darron Chapman is handing over presidency of SLA Europe to Stephen Phillips. Our new SLA Europe President-Elect for 2013 is Jackie Marfleet.
A review of 2012 and thank you to our sponsors
As my Presidential year comes to an end on the 31 December 2012 I would like to extend my deepest thanks to you for your continued support of SLA Europe and for making my year as President an enjoyable experience. With your generous help, SLA Europe in 2012 was able to provide the information community with a range of excellent networking and professional development opportunities. Your generous support was particularly welcomed this year as SLA Europe celebrated its 40th Anniversary.
Early Career Conference Awards 2013
SLA Europe is delighted to offer four opportunities for current European library and information science students and new professionals (those who have been working in …
Tuesday 29th January – SLA Europe Winter Warmer Quiz
SLA Europe is pleased to invite you to its annual Winter Warmer Quiz hosted by our legendary professional quiz master, AskTony, kindly sponsored by Acquire Media. This event is now fully subscribed.
Life as an Olympics Games Maker
Long-standing SLA Europe member Veronica Kennard writes about her experience as an Olympics volunteer earlier this summer.
Event Review: Online Information 2012 Day 2
In the second part of his write up of the Online Information conference, Steve Borley discusses the keynote speech by Gerd Leonhard on the future of the internet and offers his overall thoughts of the conference.
Event Review: Online Information 2012 Day 1
In the first part of his write up of the Online Information conference, Steve Borley discusses the change in Online2012 to its predecessors and the keynote speech by Corey Doctorow on copyright and digital rights management.
Event review: Fake Histories of Information Risk
Alison Corfield, a writer and presenter who specialises in Knowledge Management, Social Media and related business management and change topics, offers her thoughts on the SLA Europe and Information Today event “Fake Histories of Information Risk”, which was sponsored by EBSCO and Information Today at ILI 2012.
Tuesday 11th December – SLA Europe Breakfast
In a break with our usual practice, this year’s SLA Europe breakfast will be hosted by the Financial Times and sponsored by 7Side. We are very excited to bring you three speakers to give their perspectives on these challenges whilst you enjoy a continental breakfast buffet.
Sarah Wolfenden on the Personal Resilience workshop
Sarah Wolfenden, Subject Liaison Librarian for Social Sciences at Brunel University, provides her thoughts on the Personal Resilience workshop, an event kindly sponsored by Lexis Nexis and Continuum Training.