We are delighted to announce that Sara Batts and Bethan Ruddock have accepted to join the SLA Europe Board. Sara will take on the role of Newsletter Editor, whilst Bethan will be Co-Chair of ECCA with Lyndsay Rees-Jones. We all look forward to working with them.

Meet your SLA Europe Board here.

Events - Coming Up!

26 January 2010               Winter Warmer Quiz             Our ever popular annual quiz returns for teams of up to six people.

Location: City Tavern, 29 Lawrence Lane, London EC2V 8DP
Time: 6.30pm start prompt

Book early to avoid disappointment using our booking form.

Full details are here and also on the Events Page

The evening is generously sponsored by Sue Hill Recruitment

Events - Just gone!

Online - December 2009      SLA Europe members presented a varied selection of seminars and Ebsco generously sponsored the European Library Theatre. An overview will be available soon.

The Changing Landscape of the Information Profession  The changing roles and landscape of our profession made for a fascinating debate on 25th November. Hear our mp3 vox pops of Geraldine Clement-Stoneham and also other attendees providing their thoughts on this changing landscape.

Free vs Fee - The Future of News                                        On 3rd November this proved to be a very interesting debate. Our panel of industry experts examined the changing online environment for dissemination of news.                                     Evening sponsored by Dow Jones.

'The  Google-isation of [Re]search'

On 7 October our panel of experts talked about how Google is influencing our research behaviours, the challenges this brings to information professionals, as well as the opportunities new search technologies offer.

Photo Gallery of our past events

Early Career Conference Awards 2010  

We are pleased to announce the call for nominations for our 2010 ECCA recipients. Please see the Press Release, Helpful Tips and the Background Information documents.  Contact our Early Careers Co-Chairs for further information and see our Early Career page.

SLA Europe Information Professional 2010

We are pleased to announce the call for nominations for the 2010 SLA Europe Information Professional award.

For the full Press Release and Nomination form together with the list of past winners see our Awards page.

Congratulations to the winners of our Early Career Conference Awards for 2009

The Board of SLA Europe is delighted to announce the four winners of the SLA Europe Early Career Conference Award (ECCA) 2009. The winners, who attended the annual SLA Centennial Conference in Washington, DC 14-17 June, 2009, are: Sara Batts, Annie Richens, Bethan Ruddock and Laura Woods. They had very strong recommendations and a clear commitment to becoming leaders in their profession.

Learn more about them here.

Three SLA Divisions are co-sponsoring the four Award winners with SLA Europe. Business & Finance (B&F) will co-sponsor two Award winners again this year -- Sara Batts and Annie Richens. Bethan Ruddock is co-sponsored by Insurance and Employee Benefits (IEB) and Laura Woods by the Leadership and Management.

Congratulations to our SLA Europe Dissertation Award Winners for 2009!

Richard Lalleman of London Metropolitan University, Jill Rutt of the University of Sheffield and Hardy Schwamm of Loughborough University

Full details are here and more on our award winners and their dissertations will be coming soon.

For more information see the Early Career Page or contact Bethan and Lyndsay, your ECCA Co-Chairs