Sharing the DREaM blueprint: lessons in community network building from the DREaM project

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Hazel Hall

This afternoon I gave an invited presentation to staff at the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS). The RCAHMS is Scotland’s national collection of buildings, archaeology and industry. I’d been invited to contribute to the Commission’s research seminar series not for my knowledge of history, but to share my experience of using social media to support community development. My specific remit was to distil key lessons from the AHRC-funded Developing Research Excellence and Methods (DREaM) project completed in 2012, the main aim of which was to develop a formal UK-wide network of Library and Information Science (LIS) researchers. My full presentation is available on SlideShare.

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Fingers crossed for Aga and Tracey at the BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium

Posted on April 4, 2013 by Hazel Hall

Aga’s poster describes work for the Acquisition for VFX module

Today two Edinburgh Napier computing students are competing for an award at a BCS event at the University of Nottingham.

Two months ago in February 2013 Aga Banach and Tracey Binney responded to a call for students to submit a 250 word abstract for a poster presentation at the BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium.

The colloquium is the UK’s main event for women undergraduate students of computing. Now in its 6th year, the day features talks from industry and academia, a panel-based careers session, stalls from employers, and lots of networking opportunities.

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Training provision for the library, information and knowledge sector: invitation to contribute to research project

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Hazel Hall

This is a call to fellow library, information and knowledge professionals to contribute to a research project by completing a short survey on training needs. If you work in the library, information and knowledge sector, please read on to learn more about the project and how you can contribute to it.

The survey is one of the data collection tools for the project Training provision for the library, information and knowledge sector. This work has been commissioned by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP).

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Full report of Open Knowledge Foundation Edinburgh fifth evening meet-up

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Hazel Hall

I recently wrote a short report of the fifth evening meet-up of the Open Knowledge Foundation Network (OKFN) Edinburgh.

The meet-up was hosted by the Centre for Social Informatics at Edinburgh Napier Merchiston campus on Tuesday 5th March.

I’m really pleased to see that Nicola Osborne, Social Media Officer at EDINA, has posted a full report of the event to the OKFN Edinburgh web site. Read it here.

Leadership in libraries: tying library and information science research to practice

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Hazel Hall

This evening from 18:15-19:15 I will be delivering a paper entitled Leadership in libraries: tying library and information science research to practice at the Institute for Research in Social Sciences, University of Ulster.

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Open Knowledge Foundation Edinburgh meet-up 5: Edinburgh Napier University, 5th March 2013

Posted on March 10, 2013 by Hazel Hall

Last Tuesday the Centre for Social Informatics hosted the fifth evening meet-up of the Open Knowledge Foundation Network (OKFN) Edinburgh.

Around forty participants came along to the event held in the Apex café on the Edinburgh Napier University Merchiston campus. As is the practice at these events there was plenty of time for networking. We enjoyed the refreshments and chat prior to the first set of presentations, in a break in the middle of the meeting, and at the end of the evening.

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Pushing the boundaries of public service delivery at Edge 2013

Posted on March 10, 2013 by Hazel Hall

Over two beautiful almost-spring days on 28th February and 1st March around 150 members the library community met in Edinburgh for the 2013 Edge conference, organised by a team of staff from Edinburgh Council Libraries and Information Services led by Liz McGettigan. Although the delegate list largely comprised the names of senior members of UK public librarians, in his opening address Councillor Richard Lewis also welcomed library staff of all career stages from as far afield as Norway, Nashville and New York to the conference. Also in attendance were some other key players in library services delivery, such as senior council staff and representatives from supplier firms. The excellent line-up of speakers brought practitioners, policy makers and commentators to the podium, all with much to say about the future of public services.

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Bookings now open for the alt-metrics workshop at the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science summer school

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Hazel Hall

A month ago I blogged that I was busy setting up a one day training course as part of the the ESRC Scottish Graduate School of Social Science summer school on behalf of the Information Science pathway. The details of this event, which takes place in Edinburgh on Thursday 20th June, are now live.

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Into the adventure zone: an evening with BCS Women Scotland

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Hazel Hall

The second BCS Women Scotland event was a lively and well-attended evening meeting last Tuesday at IBM’s Edinburgh offices in St Andrew Square. Delegates came from a range of business organisations including Amazon, HSBC, IBM, TescoBank, Toshiba, and UBS. There was also good representation of female staff and students from the computing departments of Abertay, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Napier, and Heriot Watt universities.

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Forthcoming presentation at the Institute for Research in Social Sciences, University of Ulster

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Hazel Hall

I have been invited to deliver a paper entitled “Leadership in libraries: tying library and information science research to practice” at the Institute for Research in Social Sciences, University of Ulster on Wednesday 13th March 2013.

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