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Open Access and monographs
Get PDFUKeiG\u27s inaugural Insight column for CILIP\u27s Information Professional magazine was published in March 2023 and featured our late Chair David Ball writing about Open Access Monographs. To honour his memory and celebrate his contribution to the library, information and knowledge sector, we share it here.
David wrote and presented extensively on the emergence on OS/OA, Open Monographs, Open Data and Open Peer Review. He emphasised that this developing paradigm goes way beyond STEM subjects and impacts on social science, arts and humanities. ‘The concept of Open Access to research outputs has been common currency for many years. The rapid growth of the Internet has made different publication models easily available. More recent thinking has expanded the concept of openness even further, to Open Science, which aims to transform science by making research more open, global, collaborative, creative and closer to society. This approach is being embraced by all academic disciplines. The shift is extremely important for the development and exploitation of research, and hence for the professionals who support it.
Celebrating library & information services - a call for nominations for the 2025 UKeiG Jason Farradane Award
Get PDFThe Jason Farradane Award is presented by the UK e-information Group (UKeiG) and awarded in recognition of an outstanding, creative and enterprising contribution to the library and information profession. It will be awarded to an individual or a team in recognition of exemplary and innovative practice. This may take the form of a specific project, a piece of research or the development of a service or resource
Rewired – changing digital landscapes
Get PDFCILIP’s digital transformation conference, Rewired, took place in London and provided an inspiring opportunity for professionals from all sectors to converge on the capitol to explore digital solutions to managing data, information and knowledge and experience creativity and innovation in digital technology
Perspectives of a health information professional - a personal reflection on the CILIP 2023 Conference
Get PDFI last attended a CILIP Conference in 2016 at the Brighton Dome. Seven years later, I went to Birmingham with a sense of trepidation and curiosity. This was entirely due to my total immersion in the health sector. I work for NHS England as part of the Knowledge for Healthcare national team and was until recently a member of CILIP’s Health Libraries Group (HLG) committee. Hence my focus on health.
Since joining the UKeiG committee, I was curious to find out more about other parts of the profession. Were their challenges similar to those faced by the health library sector or were they different? Would my horizons be broadened by the presentations and networking opportunities on offer
Opportunities, threats, shared values and ethical considerations - a personal reflection on the 2023 CILIP Conference
Get PDFIn 2023 I was lucky to be sponsored by UKeiG to attend the CILIP Conference in Birmingham. New to the profession, this was the first time I’d been given the opportunity to experience a major networking event. It was valuable to attend the presentations and get a feel for what is taking place across the wider sector. Several themes recurred for me throughout.
Unsurprisingly, AI was the dominant topic. Most of the instances where it was discussed were free of the fearmongering I’ve seen elsewhere and provided balanced views on the capabilities of AI for information professionals, alongside awareness of potential threats and ethical considerations. I found it useful to hear about these topics in a library-specific context. All the speakers explained the complexities of various types of AI in an accessible way
A case study on innovative education in scholarly communication and open research at the University of Essex
Get PDFInnovative education has underlined the work of the research services team at the University of Essex since its earliest days. Since the team began in 2017, there has been a clear ambition to diversify the way training on the topics of scholarly communication and open research are delivered. This ambition began, and was initially driven, by Katrine Sundsbø, who from 2017-2022 was the Scholarly Communications and Research Support Manager, leading the research services team. Since 2017, there have been two clear avenues whereby this ambition has brought clear outcomes: through gamification and through the Essex Student Journal
LibTech EdTech – transition, challenges and contradictions
Get PDFFor every rally cry to embrace AI in education, there are concerns for student literacy and the demise of academic skills
Celebrating advances in information retrieval – the timeless conundrum
Get PDFOn a work visit to London in November 2023 I made a detour to collect the Tony Kent Strix Award memorial statuette from the retiring Chair of the judging panel, Douglas Veal. Sadly, he passed away earlier this year. He dedicated years managing and promoting this prestigious accolade; a bronze owl captured in flight. Veal was a member of the original working group that approached the Institute of Information Scientists (IIS) with the idea to honour the lifetime achievements of Dr. Tony Kent after his death in October 1997. The Award was inaugurated in 1998 by the IIS and is now presented by the UK e-information Group in partnership with the International Society for Knowledge Organisation UK Chapter (ISKO UK), the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS IRSG) and the Royal Society of Chemistry Chemical Information and Computer Applications Group (RSC CICAG). It is a brilliant example of the importance of cross sectorial and organisational collaboration in information science and celebrates outstanding practical innovation and achievement in search and information retrieval
Leadership, intellectual freedom and looking to the future - a personal reflection on the CILIP 2024 Conference
Get PDFThis was the first conference I’ve attended in the library world. Since lockdown I’d realised that I wanted to be a librarian, and I committed to the career by starting my diploma. I threw myself full speed into my learning, aiming to complete it as soon as possible. The stars aligned, and I both completed my diploma and started my current role as Collections Librarian for journals at the University of Wolverhampton. I’d read the books and written the essays, but now I was looking at more hands-on opportunities to build on my knowledge and develop more connections
Developing a library strategic response to Artificial Intelligence
Get PDFAI is ‘the defining technology of our generation’ according to a recent joint statement by the UK and US governments. We all understand that it is likely to impact library and information work profoundly, so it is important to try and be more than reactive and think strategically about the opportunities and problems it is creating. The article poses nine key questions for consideration, and reflects on some answers that might support a more strategic library approach to AI.