Network of Government Library and Information Specialists

Conferences

This page contains presentations from previous Circle/ Network conferences

Conference 2007

The 2007 conference - Impressive competence - took place on Tuesday 6th February

Click below to view or download some of the presentations from the day:

A study of skills sought by employers - TFPL (164kb)

Professional skills for librarians - Carryl Allardice (5696kb)

Professional skils for government - Roger Wilshaw (2270kb)

Everything you wanted to know about intranets but were afraid to ask - Fiona Graph (296kb)

Skills, what do information professionals actually do? - Karen Lewis (68kb)

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Conference 2006

The conference took place on Thursday 16th March and centred on the theme of Developing Your Career.

Next Best Things, David Smith (1386kb)

What The Heads Of Profession Are Doing, Linda Wishart & Kevin Jackson (43kb)

Eight Lessons For Managing Your Career, Ian Snowley (583kb)

Whose Life Is It Anyway, Jan Parry (501kb)

Chasing The Rainbow, Sue Hill (393kb)

The 2005 Survey, Maewyn Cumming (158kb)

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Conference 2005

There was no conference in 2005

Conference 2004

The conference took place on Tuesday 10th February and centred on the theme of Sharing Information Across Government.

Click below to view or download some of the presentations from the day:

Sharing information across government: strategies and bureaucracy, Jan Parry (1268Kb)

Building an information architecture across government, Stella G Dextre Clarke (195Kb)

A vision of the future, Maewyn Cumming (578Kb)

Articles related to presentations given on 10 February:

Narrative patterns: the perils and possibilities of using story in organisations, David J Snowden (87Kb)

Complex acts of knowing: paradox and descriptive self-awareness, David Snowden (356Kb)

The new dynamics of strategy: sense making in a complex and complicated world, C F Kurtz and D J Snowden (193Kb)

Just in time knowledge management: recognizing common KM errors and the progress they inhibit, David Snowden (313Kb)

The knowledge you need, right when you need it: "just in time" points the way to next generation KM, David Snowden (118Kb)

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Conference 2003

The conference took place on Wednesday 5th February and centred on the theme of Innovative Information Delivery.

Click below to view or download some of the presentations from the day:

Evidence Based Policy Making - Experiences of a Librarian, Janet Cockayne (746Kb)

Service Delivery - Providing the User with What He Wants (Keynote Address), Gwenda Sippings (89Kb)

The Information Professional and the Internet - Applying Information Management Skills to the Internet, Colette Coles (728Kb)

Librarians as Facilitators - How Librarians' Professional Skills Can Benefit the Organisation, David Smith (39.5 Kb)