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A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
From the MMIT Group Committee
Image from December Frost - an original watercolour by Evelyn Pugh. Copyright Evelyn Pugh 2008
Stop Press
Best Practice in Teaching Skills for FE now available. Go to News
Computer Buyer Newsletter for 17th Dec now available. Go to News
TASI's Spring 2009 Programme see Events
Collection Management in the Digital Age see Events
More Apple Malware Discovered - see News
Moving Image and Sound for Learning & Teaching 29th January 2009 see Events
The Gadget Show is at the NEC from the 17th-19th April 2009 - advance notice
DigCCurr 2009 is on from the 1st-3rd April 2009
Innovation in e-Information is the UKeiG Annual Conference, to run on the 16th-17th June 2009 at the Manchester Conference Centre.
Go to Events Page for details of all these postings, and also for information on Innovations in Online Searching and Internet for Image Searching.
Inspiration for the Committee
Kate Lomax and Geoff Butters have recently been coopted on to the Group Committee. Kate is eLearning Coordinator at the London Deanery, and Geoff is a Research Associate at CERLIM, Manchester Metropolitan University. They bring a fresh perspective to the committee's work, and have already begun to contribute.
...and From Umbrella as Well
MMIT has finalised an exciting programme for July's Umbrella 2009. In collaboration with other groups, authoritative speakers will present "a shock and awe tour of library technology through the ages", aspects of Web 2.0's capacity to enhance curricula, integrated library systems, the emergence of hybrid professionals, library-museum transferable skills, Second Life communities and the challenges of digital library services. Full details will follow in the New Year
Typosquatting Threat
OCLC to Provide Swiss Metahub
Pay Library Charges Online at Wolverhampton University
Community Review Software From Sirsi Dynix
News - Tuesday 9th Dec 2008
Best Practice Teaching Skills for FE
Collaborative Learning at Royal Holloway
Oxford Digitises Rare World War I Resources
FT Report on Shared Business Learning
News - Tuesday 9th Dec 2008
Sophos eNews Reports on Apple Malware
More on Software Piracy
How to Deal With Internet Abuse at Work
Google Digitises Newspapers
DS Teams up With smartsm
Software Pirates Lose Ill-gotten Gains
Items posted before 8th Dec are archived via the News page
MMIT Annual Conference
The MMIT group Annual Conference, which was held at the Manchester Conference Centre on Thursday 9th October.
To view the presentations, and Leo Appleton's full conference report, go to MMIT Documents.
For current events, go to Events.
Watch this space and make sure you don't miss out on any of the other exciting and relevant opportunities for CPD which the group will be organising.
Journal November Issue
The November issue of the journal is now available and features an overview of the Scottish Screen Archive (see Flanagan's cartoon in the full article - go to MmIT Journal), a review of an important new book on digital consumers and the implications for information services, a product review of some video editing software, and the usual roundups of news, technology and video/dvd releases.
The electronic version of the journal is available for downloading, by members and subscribers, at MmIT Journal. Email lyndon.pugh@virgin.net to register for access.
The News Blog has also migrated to this site.
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