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 (past IIS Presidents).
.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
Click here to see the AGM Agenda and Papers
For more information please contact UKeIG's Secretary at secretary.ukeig@cilip.org.uk.
Pricing: There is NO charge for this event for CILIP and UKeiG Members. Non Members pay just £20. You will be sent the link to the Zoom Conference shortly after registration.
Speakers
Andrew Whitworth
- Andrew Whitworth is Senior Lecturer at the Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester, UK. He is the Programme Director of the MA: Digital Technologies, Communication and Education. His
research interests lie with professional and staff development, particularly around the areas of information management, information literacy and ICT. He is also a specialist in distance education. In 2012
he was the recipient of a Blackboard Catalyst award for his work with distance learners on the MA: DTCE. He is the author of Information Obesity (2009) and Radical Information Literacy (2014).
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Martin White
- Managing Director, Intranet Focus Ltd. Martin has gained international reputation over the last twenty years for his understanding of how to manage enterprise and intranet search applications for
the benefit of the organisation. His first major project was for the International Monetary Fund, starting the day before 9/11 and still finishing on schedule. Many of his clients have been multi-national
organisations with complex information management and information discovery challenges, including Atlas Copco, Bayer, Boeringer Ingelheim, Ericsson Telecommunications, Hoffman La Roche, Hogan Lovells, NATO,
Novozymes, Trelleborg, Ubisoft, the United Nations, White & Case and the World Bank. A successful search strategy project he undertook for MITRE in the USA was carried out virtually from the UK. He specialises
in finding solutions for organisations working in multiple languages.
Martin has written four of the five books on enterprise search management, including Making Search Work in 2008 and
the second edition of Enterprise Search in 2015. His report on Achieving Enterprise Search Satisfaction was published in 2018 and he is currently writing a book about the Enterprise Search Experience.
He is the author of a monthly search column in CMSWire and is Editor of Informer, the newsletter of the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group. Martin has been a Visiting Professor
at the Information School, University of Sheffield, since 2002, specialising in information management and interactive information retrieval (IIR).
Sandra Ward - Dr Sandra Ward, Principal Consultant , Beaworthy Consulting. Sandra specialises in transforming organisations by optimizing their exploitation of information and staff’s knowledge and expertise. A PhD chemist, her entire career has been spent in managing information and knowledge, initially for R&D with Wellcome, Glaxo, and Glaxo Wellcome, then TFPL, where she directed consultancy and training, before going solo. A passionate K&IM professional, she has worked to ensure the commitment of CILIP to this agenda. She was Chair of CILIP’s Council and President of the Institute of Information Scientists (IIS), joint editor of Business Information Review, awarded an Hon FCLIP, and is contributing to compiling the history of IIS..
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