Our annual AGM and Bright Ideas Day will be held on Thursday 8 December 2011, at UNICEF House, 30a Great Sutton Street, London EC1V 0DU.
The funding landscape is still rather bleak and budgets remain under pressure. Continuing our mission to support your resilience and exploit your current resources, we’re once again offering free admission to this year’s Bright Ideas Day and UKIUG AGM.
Our revamped programme last year was popular and so we’ll continue with shorter sessions, more speakers, greater interaction and networking opportunities all to spark more of your bright ideas.
The day is free for both UKIUG members and non-members to attend: please complete the booking form and return to us to book your attendance. Don’t miss this opportunity to meet other Inmagic users and gain ideas from our excellent speakers.
Programme
9:30 Registration & tea/coffee
10:00 Welcome & UK Inmagic User Group AGM
10:30 Short speaker session:Emily Heath (Energy Institute) – “Building websites with WordPress”
10:45 – 11:15 tea/coffee
11.15 Group discussions
11:45 Norman Briggs (P & C Intelligence) –
Using DB/TextWorks to run a Boat Hire business
12:15 Sue Jaiteh (Soutron Ltd) –
“Enabling query logging for Webpublisher and Textworks”
13:00 buffet lunch
14:00 Phillip Green (Inmagic Inc) -
An update on new developments, news and Q&A session
15:00 Graham Beastall (Soutron Ltd)
15.30 Group discussion on the future of the UK Inmagic User Group
16:00 tea/coffee and a chance to catch up with fellow InMagic users
The programme is subject to change and unforeseen cancellation
Saison Poetry Library visit, May 2011
On May 19th we ran a UKIUG afternoon visit to the London Poetry Library, located in the Royal Festival Hall, along the Southbank.
The Poetry Library is a fascinating place and unusual in that it is a specialist subject library yet also a public lending library. A diverse user group of poets, critics, students and poetry fans use the library. Four books can be borrowed for a month at a time.
It is extremely popular, receiving phone/e-mail enquiries from around the world, many of which are people searching for lost quotations. Only 3 or 4 others like it exist and it is probably the biggest poetry library in the world.
As well as books, 172 poetry magazines are available to read, of which a few issues a year, containing a mixture of old and new poems, are picked to digitise using OCR technology. It is a time consuming process as permission must be sought from each poet or their estate. Digitisation has the big advantage of making each poem fully text searchable, so people searching for poetry quotes online can come across the Poetry Library site that way.
Indexing magazines is also a particular challenge for the library due to time constraints, so less than a handful of their magazines are indexed. They copy and collect together reviews about particular poets in files. They don’t worry about collecting poet biographies as they are large (taking up a lot of space) and tend to be provided by public libraries.
We learnt more about the various ways the Poetry Library uses Inmagic Genie and were given an excellent demonstration of cataloguing in Genie by UKIUG member Lorraine Mariner. Her presentation can be downloaded from our Members only section – contact the Website Editor if you are a member and need a password.
UKIUG AGM and Bright Ideas Day 2010
Monday 22 November 2010, UNICEF UK, London EC1 0DU.
Presentations from the 2010 Bright Ideas Day are now available to UKIUG members by logging into our Members only section – contact the Website Editor if you are a member and need a password.
Thank you to everyone who came, we hope to see you again next year.
The day included:
- UK Inmagic User Group AGM
- Short speaker sessions
- Group discussions – resulting in our Wishlist sent to Inmagic
- Sue Jaiteh (Soutron Ltd)
- Buffet lunch
- Phillip Green (Inmagic Inc) & Graham Beastall (Soutron Ltd) – an update on new developments, news and Q&A session
- Shaulan Chanlewis on using Genie at Unicef
- David Bates on using Textworks at NHS Islington and Genie at the Multiple Sclerosis Society
- Tea/coffee and a chance to catch up with fellow InMagic users
