Tag Archive | management
BIALL 2010: Integreon talks about outsourcing
I had high hopes for the next session – Chris Bull and Michael Maher from Integreon discussing ”Emerging Alternative Models for Managing Information Resources in Law Firms: Outsourcing, Co-sourcing, Offshoring”. Outsourcing is a pretty hot issue in law libraries at the moment. A few firms have outsourced their libraries and other support departments to Integreon recently, the latest […]
BIALL 2010: Catherine Kenwright and Anthony Davies – “Delivering Change, Changing Perceptions”
In the first plenary session on the Friday, Catherin Kenwright from Irwin Mitchell and Anthony Davies from LexisNexis discussed a project undertaken by Irwin Mitchell, in partnership with LexisNexis, to “deliver a comprehensive integrated knowledge solution to the firm”. Catherine started off by detailing the challenges the Learning and Knowledge Management team at Irwin Mitchell were facing in […]
The Changing Landscape of the Information Profession
I went to an SLA Europe-hosted panel discussion on the 25th November (I know, it’s taken me a while to write this up – dissertation deadline is looming!) on the future of the information profession. There is a full report of the event on the SLA Europe blog, as well as blog posts from Sara […]
CILIP Umbrella: Professional Education in the 21st Century
My final session of the day was a panel discussion on “Professional Education in the 21st Century”. As a current LIS student, I was looking forward to hearing what the panellists thought we should be studying, and how this compared with my experience at City. The four panellists were all LIS employers, from four different […]
