2011
12-13 July 2011 - Umbrella
A write up of Umbrella by Melanie Harris from DWP appears in the August issue of the GIG Journal. This will be available from the GIG Journal page on this website.
12-13 July 2011 GIG Sessions at Umbrella
Day 1: 12 July
Session A - Big Society, Big Opportunity: the response of government information professionals to the Coalition's agenda for the public sector
Session B - KIM Profession: opportunities for librarians to embrace changes as the Knowledge & Informaion Profession evolve
Session C - Transparency in the Public Sector: what is the role of the information profession?
Day 2: 13 July
Session E - Ministry of Defence ATHENA Report: collection and lessons from the Dept of Works and Pensions official publications digitisation project
22 June 2011
GIG AGM
The theme of this years AGM was transparency. Maurice Frankel Director, Campaign for Freedom of Information was guest speaker.
14 April 2011
ISKO UK Event - Public Access to Information: Challenges for information gatekeepers. (link to event information on ISKO UK website)
11 April 2011 - Joint NGLIS/GIG/CDL Conference
Opening Up Government: Do Information Professionals have the key to the door?
The presentations from the conference are available on the NGLIS website.
24 March 2011
NGLIS event - Everyone is an information manager: encouraging end-user best practice (link to booking form on NGLIS website)
24 March 2011
NetIKX, the Network for Information and Knowledge Exchange - Knowledge Management – does it still have a role in organisational strategy? (link to event information on NETIKX website.
2010
Library visits 2010
The purpose of GLIG visits is to broaden professional awareness and enable informal networking contacts to be made.
- Supreme Court Library - 25 March
- Supreme Court Library - 20 May
- House of Commons Library - 17 February
- University of Sheffield's Information Commons - 26 February
Conferences and events
14 September 2010
All Change?: responding to the new public sector environment
Write-up of the workshop
GLIG, NGLIS and CDL will be running a free afternoon workshop on 14th September from 3-5pm to look at how knowledge and information professionals are responding to the twin challenges the public sector faces of less money whilst delivering our services to meet the new approach of the Coalition Government, including the Big Society. The session will focus on:
- The changes themselves (what is the big society and what does it mean?, is transparency a big opportunity?)
- How do we work with the changes and what does that mean for the services and roles we have
- How can we support members through this change and what should we be feeding back to CILIP and other bodies
- What do we need to do as individuals to prepare ourselves for what lies ahead.
This is an informal event which will help all three groups put together a programme of events for the coming year, including a joint conference. We want to know what our members want and focus on your ideas of how we can work together to be effective as a professional group.
If you are interested please email Sue Westcott. Sue.Westcott@communities.gsi.gov.uk. The event will be held at CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street London.
2009
2 November 2009
Government Information in the Google Age Two - 2009
View the programme and presentations from the conference held on 2 November 2009.
Umbrella 2009
14-15 July
GLIG sessions
1. Digitising government collections - DWP experience, Tuesday 14 July
How and why DWP is moving from print to electronic, Angela Tailby, Department of Work and Pensions
2. Government information in the Google age, Tuesday 14 July
Archiving, the legal framework and the market for government information, Edward Wood, House of Commons
3. Is there a future for the UK Legal Deposit system? Tuesday 14 July, Simon Barlow, Ministry of Defence
4. Information assurance, Wednesday 15 July
Turning the tanker: implementing information assurance in MOD, Daniel Selman
5. Information matters? The developing role of the information Professional
Sue Westcott, Head, ICT Services, Communities and Local Government
31st Annual General Meeting
- 11 March 2009
- at The Ewart Room, CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street. London, WC1E 7AE
- Proceedings start at 6:00pm
- Free refreshments will be available throughout the evening
- Guest Speaker: CILIP President, Peter Griffiths
CILIP President, Peter Griffiths, will give a presentation and lead a discussion on his Presidential themes for the year, including a focus on Information Matters and what GLIG and CILIP can contribute to the delivery of that agenda.
Training
Repackaging your research: adding value to your answers
Date: 19 January 2009
Location: CILIP, London
Programme of visits
- Tuesday 23 June 2009
- Department for Children, Schools & Families’ Library
- Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street, London, SW1P 3BT
2008
Programme of visits
- CILT, the National Centre for Languages , July
- Middle Temple Library, June
- House of Commons Library - 13 February 2008
30th Annual General Meeting
Wednesday 11 June, 2008
- GLIG Question Time Podcast
As part of the recent highly successful GLIG AGM we featured a Question Time style panel discussion. In the chair for this was David Smith (GLIG Vice Chair) and an illustrious panel:
- Sue Westcott (Head of ICT Services, Communities and Local Government)
- Ben Chan (Information Services Group, Ministry of Defence)
- Carol Gokce (Chief Librarian, Communities and Local Government/Department for Transport)
- Patrick Ryan (Library Advisor Land Registry).
Further innovation this year has been the inclusion of a podcast of the discussion.
Help with downloads
Our thanks to Ben Chan for setting up the podcast and providing the file for us to use.
Training
November 2008