NEWS
K&IM group awards nominations open
NOMINATIONS are open for CILIP’s Knowledge and Information Management (K&IM) Group’s awards.
The group runs a number of awards to recognise achievements in the sector and it is now seeking nominations for the Walford Award; The Information Resources Award; the Andrew Hutchinson Award for Career Support and Guidance; Knowledge Manager of the Year; and KM Initiative of the Year. The closing date for nominations for each of the awards is 31 July. More information about the awards and how to nominate can be found at
https://tinyurl.com/yu6r23pz.
Dementia webinar
CILIP is hosting a webinar on Supporting People to Live Well with Dementia: A guide for library services, with author Sarah McNicol and Playlist for Life’s Rebecca Kennedy.
The hour-long session takes place via Zoom from 6pm on 26 July, and will look at various strategies that libraries can develop to help support users with dementia. Sarah McNicol will provide an overview of how public libraries can support people with dementia and their carers, highlighting resources and interventions. Rebecca Kennedy will explain how music can be incorporated into library sessions. The webinar is free to members and costs
£25 for non-members. Book now at https://
tinyurl.com/2h6xdvav.
Conference: Book your place
CILIP Conference 2023 is just round the corner, but there is a still a chance to book your place and join delegates and speakers in Birmingham on 12 and 13 July. This year’s conference has a theme of leadership and will provide delegates with plenty of opportunities to develop their leadership skills and broaden their understanding of the key challenges and opportunities for leaders.
Keynotes include Rebecka Isaksson, Dr Navina Evans, Masud Khokhar and Sathnam Sanghera. Book your place now at
www.cilipcoference.org.uk
10 INFORMATION PROFESSIONAL
£5.8 million for Open Access book project
A new project to enable academics and the wider public to use Open Access books is to receive more than £5.8 million in funding. Led by Lancaster University and sup- ported by Lancaster University Library, the Open Book Futures (OBF) project says it “will significantly increase and improve the quantity, discoverability, preservation and accessibility of aca- demic content”.
It said it aims to achieve a step change in how community-owned Open Access book publishing is delivered. The funding comes from Arcadia and the RED Fund – Arcadia supports work to preserve endangered cultural heritage, protect endangered ecosystems, and pro- mote access to knowledge. RED supports innovation in research and knowledge exchange in higher education that offers significant public benefits.
OBF aims to build the infrastructure for “a future for Open Access books led not by large commercial operations but by communities of scholars, small-to- medium-sized publishers, not-for-prof- it infra structure providers, and scholarly libraries.” Dr Joe Deville, Principal Investigator, who works jointly across the Department of Organisation, Work and Technology and the Department of Sociology at Lan- caster University, said: “It is exciting to be able to contribute to a project that promises to profoundly reshape the very mechanisms through which academic knowledge circulates, in a context in
which far too much high-quality book- length scholarship remains widely inac- cessible.”
He said: “A core principle of the Open Book Futures project is that this situa- tion can only be successfully addressed collaboratively. I am therefore so pleased to be able to bring together such a talented group of scholars, librarians, publishers, infrastructure providers and advocacy groups…” Andrew Barker, Director of Library Services & Learning Development, said: “We are delighted to be involved in this project and our role within it marks another step on the library’s journey from traditional service provider to research partner.
“This project is particularly exciting
as it aligns to our library vision ‘to con- nect, innovate and include’ and to our long-standing commitment to Open Research. It empowers us to be a sec- tor lead in establishing an innovative but sustainable way of rethinking the scholarly communication landscape and ensuring the visibility and accessibility of long-form scholarship to all.” Open Book Futures started in May and
will build on the work of the Commun ity- Led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) a project which began the establishment of the community-led solutions required to address the barriers to the wider impact of Open Access books. COPIM was also jointly funded by Arcadia and the RED Fund.
Explore AI at UKeiG AGM
THE potential of AI and new publish- ing paradigms in research commu- nication will be explored at the 2023 UKeiG Members’ Forum and AGM on 29 June. ‘Could Artificial Intelligence help us communicate research better?’ will be presented by Andy Tattersall, an Infor- mation Specialist from The University of Sheffield. He said: “There’s much we do not yet know about the impact of AI
within academia, it offers both oppor- tunities and threats.”
The 1-4pm event also includes a talk on The impact of Open Access mono- graphs and long form publications for researchers and the lay public, and another on Supporting not-for-profit journal publishing through library ser- vices and support.
Find more details for the event here:
http://cuts2.com/KDjzH
June 2023
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