You are invited to the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of UKeiG on 22nd July 2021

You are invited to join our free Members' Day and Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Zoom on Thursday 22nd September from 2 p.m.  The Members' Day will focus on Information Mapping and the History of the Institute of Information Scientists. The full programme is below. The official AGM documents can be found here. Included are the minutes of the 2020 AGM, the official notice of the AGM and our Annual Report. The event is free to all CILIP and UKeiG Members. For Non-Members there is a nominal charge of £20.

To book the event click here.

Programme for the afternoon:

2 p.m. Mapping Information Landscapes, Andrew Whitworth (Manchester Institute of Education)

This talk will explore various ways in which mapping can be used as a tool for teaching and developing information literacy, in both formal and informal educational settings. Maps allow learners to develop a collective understanding of what information is important to them, represent this understanding graphically or discursively, and communicate it to others. Techniques including the use of geographical maps, concept maps, and text-based (or discursive) maps will be introduced, along with evaluations of their differing impacts.

3 p.m. AGM

3:30 p.m. The genealogy of UKeiG – our private passion, Martin White and Sandra Ward.

Over the last two years Sandra and Martin have been writing the history of the Institute of Information Scientists.  The IIS was founded in 1958 and eventually merged with the LA to form CILIP in 2002. Along the way the Institute was instrumental in forming UK Online User Group (UKOLUG), the current edition of which is UKeiG. The initial release of the History on its own web site will take place later this month. Sandra and Martin became members in the early 1970s, and will be talking about how the IIS was instrumental in ensuring that the information community in  the UK could take advantage of digital information services. The talk will profile some of the people who shaped the development of the Institute over the last six decades and also the careers of the two presenters.

4.30 p.m. Close

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