UMSLG Residential Meeting: Thursday

Fascists killed at least 37 people in London today...I can't write this post and not mention it. I don't know if friends who work in London are safe or not. I worked there for twenty-five years; my mother worked there through the blitz. I wish I worked there still.
The bombers hate work, knowledge, civilisation, beauty; the only response to them therefore is to reassert those things. So I shall post, as I planned, an account of today's proceedings
So to Edinburgh for the UMSLG residential meeting; as the bombs were going off, I was watching from a plane window as the cloud that covered the South broke, and I saw the Solway Firth and the Borders as we flew towards Edinburgh.
The first session was started by Maggie Haines who spoke on the HEAG Implementation Group report. She highlighted the areas that CILIP was now going to take forward: advocacy and policy, research, CPD, leadership. Maggie's presentation sparked ideas for the discussion at the AGM on the future of UMSLG. Then we had a video of a talk by John MacColl on Googlezon (I wonder why he prefers this formulation to Lorcan Dempsey's Amazoogle?), from a meeting where he, Ronald Milne and another unidentified speaker discussed the future and Google Scholar, good stuff though hard to summarise, and I'd like to link to the original if I can find it. (Update: was it perhaps this CURL meeting?)
. The presentation is here. After the break Roger Jones explained the intricacies of fEC and TRAC to us (the lower case f is apparently de rigeur), and how they had used them at Reading to cost information services. Rachel Ellaway was the high point of this session, with a brilliantly delivered account of Edinburgh's e-learning tools, all home made: the Edinburgh Electronic Medical Curriculum (EEMeC), the Edinburgh Electronic Veterinary Curriculum (EEVeC) and the Edinburgh Electronic Postgraduate Portfolio (EEPoP) .
Aftre this the UMSLG AGM, with Chris Fowler in charge; we will have a year of consulation on the future driection of UMSLG, asnwering a series of questions posed by Chris in a paper on the organisation's future: I shall purge the disgust I feel with a morning run up Arthur's Seat.