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 …
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.
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.
Slides from Fake Histories of Information Risk – at ILI 2012 – 29 October 2012
SLA Europe and Information Today, in partnership with EBSCO, presented a networking event during ILI 2012 on information governance and risk management.
A future for special libraries? Only if you are really really flexible!
Early in October some members of the Board of SLA Europe ventured over the border from their more normal English locations to Scotland.
Member Interview: Nicola Franklin on relocating overseas
Nicola Franklin discusses the challenges and opportunities in expanding her library recruitment business overseas
Simon Barron on LibraryCamp 2012
Simon Barron, E-resources Co-ordinator at Durham University Library has kindly provided us with a post on the recent LibraryCamp 2012, held in Birmingham On Sunday …
Engaging with social media for fun and career success – the movie and reviews
On Tuesday 25 September, SLA Europe is hosted an evening event on “Engaging with social media for fun and career success”. The three guest speakers Neil Infield, Laura Woods and Meghan Jones, related their own experiences using social media both at work and at home.
Re-imagine, Renew and Reboot at Internet Librarian International
Kat Allen, business development director for Internet Librarian International, gives us a preview of what to expect from this year’s conference