* Would you like to improve your own information services to health
managers?
* Are you keen to provide value-added services that enhance your
profile?
* Do you want to improve your own skills in synthesising and summarising
information?
* Have you identified a “knowledge gap” with regard to your own
awareness of management resources?

If so, then this free workshop, to be held at two venues (London and
Sheffield) in the first half of this year, is for you. Delivered by
experienced information professionals involved in information provision
and training for managers and, specifically, in the creation of the NeLH
Virtual Branch Library for Health Management, this course will provide
essential skills and knowledge to new and experienced information
professionals alike. You will acquire generic skills to support your
current role, together with specific skills to enable you to contribute
to the management knowledge base.

This course, which is open to all (with a maximum of 20 places on each
course), will be particularly of value to:
* those planning to write a management digest for the NeLH Virtual
Branch Library for Health Management
* those currently undergoing organisational change with the creation of
strategic health authorities.

Course details:
       Managing the knowledge base : health management and the NeLH
                 NeLH Skills and Knowledge Workshops
           Friday 15th February 2002 – King’s Fund, London
      Friday 19th April 2002 – ScHARR, University of Sheffield

Programme:
10:00   Coffee and Registration
10:15   Introduction to the Day
10:20   The NeLH Virtual Branch Library for Health Management : the Story
so Far
10:40   What do managers want and how do they want it? – Discussion Forum
11:10   Guided Tour of the NeLH for Health Management (including worked
examples)

11:30   Coffee

11:50   Spotlight on the Electronic Library for Social Care
12:00   Resources to support health care management : an overview
12:20   Mapping the landscape – Groupwork
12:40   Feedback and Summary

13:00   Lunch

14:00   What are digests and why are they important?
14:20   Creating a management digest – principles and techniques
14:35   Producing a digest – Groupwork

15:30   Tea

15:45   Feedback from Groupwork
15:55   The way forward
16:00   Close


Booking the course:
To make a firm booking for one of the workshops - which are free of
charge - please send your contact details (including postal address) to
the following addresses.  Please also let us know if you are considering
writing a briefing for the NeLH for Managers.

For the London workshop on Friday 15th February 2002:
Karen Barclay
Library
King's Fund
11-13 Cavendish Square
London W1G 0AN
Tel 020 7307 2655  Fax 020 7307 2805  Email [log in to unmask]

For the Sheffield workshop on Friday 19th April 2002:
Andrew Booth
c/o Marilyn Tinsley
Information Resources
School of Health & Related Research (ScHARR)
Regent Court
30 Regent Street
SHEFFIELD S1 4DA
Tel 0114 222 0703  Fax 0114 272 4095  E-mail [log in to unmask]