For further information and how to book a place, please see this event entry.

CLIG members can take advantage of a discounted booking rate for delegate bookings to the Online Information Conference 2009. To book a place, please visit the pricing area of the Online Information Conference 2009 website.

In exchange, we asked her to write about her experiences at conference, particularly since she was a first-time attendee. You can read her write-up by navigating to the articles section of the website, or by clicking here.

Some of the site's new functions include:

• A new design and structure, making information about us much more accessible and easy to read.
• Separate sections for CLIG events that are forthcoming, news items on a variety of CLIG matters, and articles on previous CLIG events.
• Dedicated RSS feeds for events and news, allowing you to keep up to date with CLIG with the minimum of effort.

We are very pleased with the new site, but the work doesn't stop here. In the next few months we intend to add more functionailty, including an online payments system for events and membership fees, and the integration of our membership database with the new site. Announcements about these will follow in due course.

We also would like your feedback, whether you are a CLIG member or a visitor to the site. If you would like to get in touch with your thoughts, you can do so via the online contact form, or by emailing a member of the committee. We look forward to hearing from you.

The fee is being held at 2008 levels - just £18, entitling you to the member rate on seminars and events throughout the year.

If you are currently not working and would like to discuss reduced rate membership, please contact membership@clig.org.

For any queries contact Sara Batts, Membership Secretary, at membership@clig.org

Even more so, because now we have received additional sponsorship from Westlaw Business, CLIG is delighted to be able to offer the Spring party free for CLIG members and at the reduced price of £15.00 for non-members.

This year we return to the elegant Smoking Room at Middle Temple. Site of the first performance of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Middle Temple's stunning Hall was built using timbers from the crushed Spanish Armada fleet. We hope the weather will be clement enough to allow us to enjoy its beautiful gardens, amongst the oldest and finest in London.

We are very grateful to Complinet, Kluwer Law International and 7Side for their extremely generous sponsorship of this event.

Venue: The Smoking Room, Middle Temple, Middle Temple Lane, London EC4Y 9AT
Date: Friday 8 May 2009, 6.30pm
Price: Free for members (thanks to generous sponsorship); £15 non-members (includes canapés, drinks, a raffle, with prizes kindly donated by a number of publishers and suppliers, and a quiz, with team prizes generously provided by Sue Hill Recruitment).

The revised booking form for this event will be available on the CLIG website shortly.

18 - 20 June 2009
Manchester

City Legal Information Group is pleased to offer two of its members financial assistance towards attending the 2009 BIALL conference.

Each bursary will cover the "early bird" conference fees and may also contribute towards travel and accommodation costs.

For more details, and the application form, see this PDF document.

Applications must be received by 17 April 2009; decisions will be taken by 24 April.

If you're not already a member of CLIG, or have yet to get round to your renewal, please download our PDF membership form.

The CLIG membership year runs from 1 April to 31 March each year - your membership must be current at 17 April to be eligible for these bursaries. If you have any queries about membership or the bursaries please contact membership@clig.org.

Details of the BIALL conference are available online from their site.

The membership rate is £18, held at 2008 levels. If you're not currently working, then do contact me in confidence (membership@clig.org) for details of a reduced rate.

New members are always welcome. If you have any queries then please do contact either membership@clig.org or chair@clig.org
Further details and the membership form are available in the PDF below...

However, places are limited, and due to high demand we have to limit places to CLIG members only.

***

Researching the credit crisis - how information units can help steer a course through troubled waters.

   
The $50bn Madoff Ponzi scheme fraud recently hit the headlines. It demonstrates shortcomings in business research by several huge banks failing to spot risk they were opening themselves up to.

Effective business research not only shields an organisation from risk, but can assist it in finding its way through turbulent financial scenarios such as the current credit crisis.

CLIG is delighted that Sylvia James, author, expert in business research and recent recipient of the ALA's Excellence in Business Librarianship Award, has agreed to speak on the subject and will detail what information units can and should be doing. Sylvia has forty years of business research experience, the last twenty as an independent management and research consultant.
The hour long talk, including time for questions, will be given in three parts:

Part one - will explain how the credit crunch came about and how money markets are supposed to function

Part two - will cover the issues IS departments ought to be picking up on and how these units can proactively assist their employing firms

Part three - will detail the sources IS units might best use and how team members can keep themselves up to date in this rapidly changing environment

You are warmly invited to attend this topical, practical talk; in particular if you wish to learn how you can increase the value you add to your firm and raise the profile of your business research unit.

Venue: Macfarlanes LLP (20 Cursitor Street, EC4A 1LT)
Date: Tues Jan 27th 2009
Time: 6:30pm, with drinks and canapes served from 6.15pm.

CLIG Member Price: £30.00 / Non Member Price: £45.00
For further details the booking form is available from this link...

CLIG wishes you all a Happy New Year and is pleased to present details of the first seminar for 2009..

Researching the credit crisis - how information units can help steer a course through troubled waters.

   
The $50bn Madoff Ponzi scheme fraud recently hit the headlines. It demonstrates shortcomings in business research by several huge banks failing to spot risk they were opening themselves up to.

Effective business research not only shields an organisation from risk, but can assist it in finding its way through turbulent financial scenarios such as the current credit crisis.

CLIG is delighted that Sylvia James, author, expert in business research and recent recipient of the ALA's Excellence in Business Librarianship Award, has agreed to speak on the subject and will detail what information units can and should be doing. Sylvia has forty years of business research experience, the last twenty as an independent management and research consultant.

The hour long talk, including time for questions, will be given in three parts:

Part one - will explain how the credit crunch came about and how money markets are supposed to function

Part two - will cover the issues IS departments ought to be picking up on and how these units can proactively assist their employing firms

Part three - will detail the sources IS units might best use and how team members can keep themselves up to date in this rapidly changing environment

You are warmly invited to attend this topical, practical talk; in particular if you wish to learn how you can increase the value you add to your firm and raise the profile of your business research unit.

Venue: Macfarlanes LLP (20 Cursitor Street, EC4A 1LT)
Date: Tues Jan 27th 2009
Time: 6:30pm, with drinks and canapes served from 6.15pm.

CLIG Member Price: £30.00 / Non Member Price: £45.00