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LIKE 89: Christmas Party
Wednesday 4th December 2019
A LIKE diary favourite for many years. Expect an evening of merriment with a fun game, great food and secret Santa.
LIKE 88: Autumn Quiz.
Thursday 7th November 2019
LIKE is pleased to be collaborating with CILIP London to bring you a great Autumn quiz this year.
Our quiz promises to be more than just your regular pub quiz, as we will feature audio and video rounds as well as some more traditional formats. We’ll take care of the marking for consistency and there will be prizes. Everyone in the winning team will win a £15 Waterstones token and there will be prizes for the runners-up too.
This year features a special individuals' round! Five lucky participants' names will be drawn from a hat for a chance to compete in a micro quiz to win a copy of the recent Facet title Practical Knowledge and Information Management (RRP £64.95) by Katharine Schopflin and Matt Walsh.
Please assemble your teams of up to five now. Team captains can sign up and pay for the whole team or your team members can sign up for themselves. They just need to state the team captain's name when signing-up. If you haven’t got a team, that’s not a problem. Please sign yourself up and we’ll match you to a team.
This will also be a great opportunity to meet fellow information and knowledge professionals as well as being a fun night out.
LIKE 87: User experience - a new approach to structured searching
Wednesday 9th October
We’re lucky to have UX expert Tony Russell-Rose speak to us at our October event. Please join us to learn about new approaches and techniques in structured searching and interactivity.
Dr Tony Russell-Rose will talk about a new approach to structured searching, in which concepts are expressed as objects rather than in the form of Boolean queries. His presentation will include interactive query suggestions via an NLP services API, which aim to make search queries more transparent and to provide an open-access platform for sharing best practices.
About our speaker
Dr Tony Russell-Rose is a specialist in user experience research and founder and director of 2dSearch and UXLabs. He was previously manager of user experience at software company Endeca and technical lead at Reuters, where he designed advanced user interfaces for information access and search.
LIKE 86: London Walking Tour: London on Film.
Thursday 12th September 2019
An increasing number of films are using London and its historic sites as a backdrop. So please join our Blue Badge Guide and author, Rachel Kolsky, who will take us from Smithfield to Bankside highlighting famous films and their locations. They include Four Weddings and a Funeral, Closer, Shakespeare in Love, Mary Poppins and one of Rachel’s all time favourites, Hue and Cry. Inbetween, you will hear about filming in the capital …. should you be planning your own film!
The walk will last around two hours and will finish around Bankside. We will then mingle over drinks at a local pub. One drink is included in the ticket price. Please be prepared for no breaks, and potentially the British weather!
About our guide
Our guide for the walk will be LIKE favourite Rachel Kolsky. Rachel is a prize-winning Blue Badge Guide who also worked for over 25 years in the financial services industry as a professional researcher.
LIKE 85: Practical knowledge and information management. Tuesday 4th June 2019
Come and hear Katharine Schopflin and Matt Walsh talk about knowledge and information management in practice as they their learnings from their new book, Practical Knowledge and Information Management .
Their book looks at how knowledge and information management is implemented in organisations, problems you might encounter and practical advice on how to approach it. The authors will speak informally from their own experience and from what they have learned while writing the book.
Come to this stimulating talk and and enjoy the traditional LIKE benefits of a hearty pub meal (the Calthorpe Arms is known for its generous portions!)and convivial company. All attendees will receive a voucher entitling them to a 50% discount on the book and two attendees will win a copy.
About our speakers
Katharine Schopflin is an information professional with more than 20 years’ experience. She has worked in sectors ranging from media to government and in a range of information and knowledge management roles. She teaches regularly on MA LIS courses and has published in both trade and academic journals. She is the editor of A Handbook for Media Librarians and author of A Handbook for Corporate Information Professionals
Matt Walsh is Global Knowledge Manager at dunnhumby. He has 16 years’ experience as a knowledge and information management professional working across a range of public and private sector organizations to deliver successful KM and IM solutions.
LIKE 84: Visit to Dennis Severs' House. 27th February 2019
Please join us on our visit to this historic house in Spitalfields which portrays the lives of a family of Huguenot silk-weavers from 1724 to the dawn of the 20th Century. Numbers are capped at 20 so we advise booking promptly to avoid missing out.
Afterwards, there will be an opportunity to mingle over drinks at The Water Poet Pub across the road.
Wednesday 4th December 2019
A LIKE diary favourite for many years. Expect an evening of merriment with a fun game, great food and secret Santa.
LIKE 88: Autumn Quiz.
Thursday 7th November 2019
LIKE is pleased to be collaborating with CILIP London to bring you a great Autumn quiz this year.
Our quiz promises to be more than just your regular pub quiz, as we will feature audio and video rounds as well as some more traditional formats. We’ll take care of the marking for consistency and there will be prizes. Everyone in the winning team will win a £15 Waterstones token and there will be prizes for the runners-up too.
This year features a special individuals' round! Five lucky participants' names will be drawn from a hat for a chance to compete in a micro quiz to win a copy of the recent Facet title Practical Knowledge and Information Management (RRP £64.95) by Katharine Schopflin and Matt Walsh.
Please assemble your teams of up to five now. Team captains can sign up and pay for the whole team or your team members can sign up for themselves. They just need to state the team captain's name when signing-up. If you haven’t got a team, that’s not a problem. Please sign yourself up and we’ll match you to a team.
This will also be a great opportunity to meet fellow information and knowledge professionals as well as being a fun night out.
LIKE 87: User experience - a new approach to structured searching
Wednesday 9th October
We’re lucky to have UX expert Tony Russell-Rose speak to us at our October event. Please join us to learn about new approaches and techniques in structured searching and interactivity.
Dr Tony Russell-Rose will talk about a new approach to structured searching, in which concepts are expressed as objects rather than in the form of Boolean queries. His presentation will include interactive query suggestions via an NLP services API, which aim to make search queries more transparent and to provide an open-access platform for sharing best practices.
About our speaker
Dr Tony Russell-Rose is a specialist in user experience research and founder and director of 2dSearch and UXLabs. He was previously manager of user experience at software company Endeca and technical lead at Reuters, where he designed advanced user interfaces for information access and search.
LIKE 86: London Walking Tour: London on Film.
Thursday 12th September 2019
An increasing number of films are using London and its historic sites as a backdrop. So please join our Blue Badge Guide and author, Rachel Kolsky, who will take us from Smithfield to Bankside highlighting famous films and their locations. They include Four Weddings and a Funeral, Closer, Shakespeare in Love, Mary Poppins and one of Rachel’s all time favourites, Hue and Cry. Inbetween, you will hear about filming in the capital …. should you be planning your own film!
The walk will last around two hours and will finish around Bankside. We will then mingle over drinks at a local pub. One drink is included in the ticket price. Please be prepared for no breaks, and potentially the British weather!
About our guide
Our guide for the walk will be LIKE favourite Rachel Kolsky. Rachel is a prize-winning Blue Badge Guide who also worked for over 25 years in the financial services industry as a professional researcher.
LIKE 85: Practical knowledge and information management. Tuesday 4th June 2019
Come and hear Katharine Schopflin and Matt Walsh talk about knowledge and information management in practice as they their learnings from their new book, Practical Knowledge and Information Management .
Their book looks at how knowledge and information management is implemented in organisations, problems you might encounter and practical advice on how to approach it. The authors will speak informally from their own experience and from what they have learned while writing the book.
Come to this stimulating talk and and enjoy the traditional LIKE benefits of a hearty pub meal (the Calthorpe Arms is known for its generous portions!)and convivial company. All attendees will receive a voucher entitling them to a 50% discount on the book and two attendees will win a copy.
About our speakers
Katharine Schopflin is an information professional with more than 20 years’ experience. She has worked in sectors ranging from media to government and in a range of information and knowledge management roles. She teaches regularly on MA LIS courses and has published in both trade and academic journals. She is the editor of A Handbook for Media Librarians and author of A Handbook for Corporate Information Professionals
Matt Walsh is Global Knowledge Manager at dunnhumby. He has 16 years’ experience as a knowledge and information management professional working across a range of public and private sector organizations to deliver successful KM and IM solutions.
LIKE 84: Visit to Dennis Severs' House. 27th February 2019
Please join us on our visit to this historic house in Spitalfields which portrays the lives of a family of Huguenot silk-weavers from 1724 to the dawn of the 20th Century. Numbers are capped at 20 so we advise booking promptly to avoid missing out.
Afterwards, there will be an opportunity to mingle over drinks at The Water Poet Pub across the road.