Introducing the new CIG e-forums!

We are very excited to announce a brand new kind of event - the CIG e-forum!

We all know these are difficult financial times, so the CIG e-forums aim to provide valuable, informal and informative professional development opportunities. You can participate from the comfort of your own home or desk, completely free of charge. The CIG e-forums are open to anyone, not only to CIG or CILIP members, providing an excellent chance to network with other people interested in the same issues, whatever sector they work in and wherever in the world they are based. We welcome everyone to the discussion.

So what exactly is a CIG -eforum? A CIG e-forum is a two-day, moderated & facilitated electronic discussion forum providing an opportunity for librarians and information staff to discuss specific topics of relevance to knowledge organisation, metadata, etc. The e-forum discussion list works like an email discussion list: register your email address with the list, and then you will receive messages and communicate with other participants through an email discussion. These discussions are free of charge and available to anyone who wishes to subscribe to the list (see below for instructions on how to subscribe).

We plan to make these regular events in the CIG calendar and hope you will join us. Our first CIG e-forum will take place next month on the topic of RDA, so look out for the full announcement about this next week! We look forward to seeing many of you in that discussion.

How to Subscribe

Go to the e-Forum web site http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CIG-E-FORUM

Click the "Subscribe" link at the top left-hand side

Enter your name and the email address where you'd like to receive the e-forum messages (or if you already have a JISCMail listserv password, follow the instructions to enter that)

You'll receive an email message containing a confirmation code. Simply wait for this message to arrive, then follow the instructions to confirm the operation.

You can come back to http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CIG-E-FORUM anytime to manage your subscription:

·  cancel/unsubscribe after the e-forum or at any time

·  access the list archive to review a discussion

·  choose to receive the messages in digest format instead of one email at a time.

[NB. Yes, we do k now that the grammatically correct plural of e-forum should be e-fora but it just looks too odd]