Inaugural Expert Lecture - The importance of content quality in achieving user search satisfaction

The Information School's Inaugural Expert Lecture will take place on Monday 1 December.

Martin White, Managing Director of Intranet Focus, will present a lecture on 'The importance of content quality in achieving user search satisfaction'.

Martin is an intranet and information management strategy consultant, and information scientist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in 2006 for his work in information management for the pharmaceutical industry and serves the RSC as a member of its Publications
Committee and acts as the Chair of the eScience Advisory Group. He is also a member of the British Computer Society, the Association for Computing Machinery (USA) and an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, and has been a Visiting Professor at
the Information School, the University of Sheffield since 2002.

His lecture will take place in Sir Henry Stephenson Building, Lecture Theatre 1, at 13:00 on Monday 1 December. All are welcome to attend,

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