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Research
In July/August 2008 we hope to do a very small survey of SIN members. This is
to provide the committee with some information on how we might move the
group forward. If you have comments or suggestions on what you feel we should
be asking, please let us know.
Facebook
Facebook – love it, hate it or possibly not even aware of it? SIN
has just set up a Facebook Group for the Scottish Information Network. This
networking group will allow you to see other Facebook members who are also
members of SIN. Perhaps you bumped into someone at a recent event and can’t
remember their name? Or perhaps you are going to an event and want to be
able to recognize some people before you arrive? Facebook will allow you
to do such things. However, please note you will only be able to see those
members who wish their details to be displayed. For reasons of privacy this
group has been set up as a closed group on Facebook. This means only approved
(i.e. SIN members) can join. All members will be invited to join but if
you would prefer not be invited please e-mail John
Coll. If you currently don’t have a Facebook entry the invitation
will prompt you to create one. Remember, you choose how much information
you wish to appear on Facebook and this information is only shared with
members of SIN. Facebook is not designed to replace our networking events
but we believe it could add value to such networking.
News Archive 2007
30-11-07 Many thanks to Paul Cunnea for adding his presentation Look
before you leap.
1-11-07 Mayumi Hepburn has kindly forwarded the presentation
for the Seminar Emerging roles for information professionals of Oct 30th
2006. We believe it may still be of interest to our members.
11-10-07 Date and time for the November event confirmed as 6pm
12 November 2007 University of Strathclyde Level 5, Livingstone Tower, 26
Richmond St.
01-10-07 Susan Mansfield has kindly made her slide
show from the event at the SPICe available.
22-08-07 New event dates for the September to December period added to Calendar
section.
News Archive 2006
03-06-06 June 5th Event - cancelled. Apologies to members. We have been
forced to cancel our seminar on "Outsourcing" scheduled for Monday
5 June. We are very sorry that this has been cancelled so late but some of
you will have gathered from the lack of a reminder that there a been a question
mark over the event for sometime. Unfortunately, for reasons beyond our control
we were forced to make the difficult choice of pulling the plug on the event.
We are still keen to look at this topic and hope to reschedule it for a later
date. Under normal circumstances, we had not planned another event until September.
However, we are now pleased to say we have arranged a further event for July
- event details.
09-02-06 SIN is pleased to announce its forward calendar of events to October
2006 including topics such as outsourcing information services (or being outsourced!),
what's hot in the information industry, how to use benchmarking to validate
the worth of your information service and a couple of examples of best practice
in communities of practice. And don't forget the forthcoming AGM
followed by a seminar on managing web sites (both small and large) taking
place on Monday 20 March.
26-01-06 Happy new year! Following the recent event on making
conferences work for you, Tessa Darley has made her slides available.
And from the tail end of 2005, we now have a gallery
of photos from the seminar evening in November on new
search technologies.
News Archive 2005
14-10-05 Steve Borley has kindly reviewed the seminar event held on 7 November
- if you missed it, read
all about intelligent retrieval of information.
14-10-05 Many thanks to SLA Europe for inviting SIN members to their recent
event in Edinburgh. A gallery
of photos from the evening is now online.
02-10-05 The calendar of events through to the AGM in March 2006 is starting
to take shape, with both seminars and social events planned.
02-10-05 Presentations given at our most recent seminar, on electronic
and print media, are available for download. There is also a gallery
of photos from the evening.
12-07-05 The Group Economics department of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group is looking
to recruit an Information Officer to its research team. The role involves
a mixture of research, managing and developing the department's internet
and intranet sites as well as some data management.
08-07-05 The details of the next seminar on 12 September - looking at Electronic
and Print Media - are now available.
24-06-05 As publicized at our last AGM, SIN agreed to confirm its membership
by asking all members to complete a simple form to comply with data protection
issues. Find out how to join
or continue your membership of SIN.
13-06-05 Following SIN's second seminar in Glasgow, kindly hosted and sponsored
by IDOX, Ian Watson has made his presentation
slides and notes available.
01-06-05 SIN has announced details of a seminar
event, to take place on 27-06-05, looking at career progression strategies
for information professionals and featuring recruitment expert Sue Hill.
06-05-05 Our next seminar
event, being held in central Glasgow on 06-06-05, will feature presentations
from Ian Watson, Newsquest (Herald and Times) Ltd and Kirsty Crawford, BBC
Scotland. Please note that the date of this event has changed from Monday
23rd May to the following Monday 6th June.
25-04-05 Steve Borley, of Royal Bank of Scotland Group and co-founder of
SIN, has won the Special Libraries Association Information Professional (SLA EIP) Award 2005. This award recognises outstanding achievement in the information profession. Steve's significant efforts in generating momentum to bring
people together in the Scottish Information Network were highlighted as
part of his nomination. As the award winner, Steve will enjoy an expenses-paid
trip to the SLA conference in Toronto, Canada in June 2005. Throughout the
year Steve will represent SLA at key meetings, and will give a number of
presentations.
09-02-05 Andy Hyde, NHS, has been confirmed as the speaker at our next seminar
event on 21-03-05, which is combined with our first annual general meeting.
11-01-05 Details of the upcoming Freedom
of Information seminar event on 24-01-05 are now available.
News Archive 2004
30-11-04 The presentation given by Sandy Stewart at our November seminar
in Glasgow is now available
for download.
18-11-04 Claudia Triquart organised and hosted SIN's
first seminar event in Glasgow earlier this week. Many thanks to Scottish
Enterprise for hosting and sponsoring the seminar.
25-10-04 Lorna Turnbull has kindly reviewed
the popular seminar event held in October with speakers Jonathan Gordon-Till
and Zoë Kelleher and sponsors Perfect Information.
07-10-04 Presentations given by Jonathan Gordon-Till and Zoë Kelleher
at the seminar on Monday 4th October are now available
for download. Jonathan gave an introduction to the role of ethics in
the information profession and Zoë followed up by telling us about
a case study that she carried out into email security.
07-10-04 Presentations given in May 2004 by Walter Murray, Steve Borley
and John Coll on their business information services are now available
for download.
06-09-04 We are pleased to announce the launch of the Scottish Information
Network web site. This site is a place to bring together details of our
meetings, past and present, information about our partners and sponsors,
any press coverage we may get and of course our main human points of contact.
Watch www.scotinfonet.com
for further developments!
