NEWS
Clinical librarian abstract call
INFORMATION professionals working in a clinical setting have been invited to submit an abstract for inclusion in this year’s Interna- tional Clinical Librarian Conference (ICLC). Taking place on 3 and 4 October in Manchester, ICLC is an opportunity for healthcare librarians to learn about the latest initiatives in the profession. Confer- ence organisers are looking for submissions on subjects including literature searching; working with clinicians/healthcare man- agers to provide latest evidence; current awareness services to healthcare staff; and supporting systematic reviews and writing for publication.
Closing dates for submissions is 5 April and submission forms can be downloaded at
https://bit.ly/2XrroKk.
Casting light on
the dark web THE UK e-Information Group (UKeiG) is running a one-day course to highlight strategies for safely and successfully exploring the Deep Web.
The course is aimed at library and informa- tion professionals who support researchers and will give skills to help them look at the hidden web, which has content that is gen- erally not found through mainstream search engines. The event takes place on 12 April at CILIP’s London HQ and also looks at reasons mainstream search engines miss or ignore information, the impact of legisala- tion – including the right to be forgotten; and strategies for retrieving high quality information. To book, visit
https://bit.ly/2tK6d8o.
Academic library advocacy kit
AN advocacy toolkit for library and infor- mation professionals in the developing world is available from Research4Life. The free resource offers practical advice on how librarians can lobby decision-mak- ers, managers and funders in order to promote academic libraries. The kit is free to download at
www.research4life.org/resources.
6 INFORMATION PROFESSIONAL March 2019
CEOs urged to view information as an asset
SENIOR executives in boardrooms across the UK should consider whether their organisations could receive unexpected fines, frustrate their own staff through poor information management, and risk falling behind competitors through underestimating the significance of information, according to a joint paper from CILIP and KPMG. Information as an Asset: today’s board agenda was launched at KPMG’s office in Canary Wharf, with speakers from KPMG, Lloyds of London, Network Rail and Health Education England. Based on an original 1995 Information as an Asset report, known as the Hawley Report, it aims to “demonstrate to boards in all sectors that throughout the Fourth Industrial Revolution, information assets and their management represent their most significant opportunity.” Dr Robert Hawley, former CEO of Nuclear Electric Ltd, and the author of the 1995 report, has written the foreword to the new edition saying: “Whilst our original report was well-received, today’s dynam- ic and information-centric environment demands even more attention to the business of safeguarding information.” The paper includes a number of case studies on topics ranging from Cambridge Analytica to the data-driven disruption of Amazon. It also includes insights from KPMG which outlines how “strategic assets are not simply just an operational, technology, or a risk management matter”
and are “a topic of conversation at the very highest level in the firm”. Speakers at the launch explained how information was being used like other assets by their organisations. Jennifer Rigby, Chief Information
Officer at Lloyds of London, focused on data driven innovation and how information was incorporated into its business strat- egies, with transparency and open data driving developments like the Lloyds Lab, a data lab giving start-ups access to Lloyds of London data. Apurva Kumar Sinha, Head of Inno- vation and Information Management at Network Rail, explained the potentially massive scale of data that could be gen- erated by sensors on the railway network but said new technology for collecting and exploiting data was just one aspect of good information curation. “What’s stopping us is not technology, its data management.” James Freed, CIO at Health Education England, drew on his recent research, warning information professionals that some boards still might not listen, pointing out that CEOs are in place for an average of two years and digital proj- ects tend to have more downside potential than upside – “massive risk and tiny opportunity”.
Sandra Ward, a CILIP trustee and one
of the authors of the paper gave an over- view of the paper saying “leaders must understand information in order to be able to lead”. l
https://bit.ly/2HguZoX
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