FEBRUARY 2006
These are the events happening at ASLIB in London this month:
9th - Building and Deploying a Corporate Taxonomy - FULL - new course date
added:
10th - Building and Deploying a Corporate Taxonomy
(www.aslib.com/training/section4.html)
Whether the focus is on records management, document management or
knowledge management, a Corporate Taxonomy is key to effective storage and
retrieval. A Corporate Taxonomy is different from a subject taxonomy in
that it is a taxonomy of business activities. Corporate Taxonomies are
therefore specific to an organisation and have to be custom-built. This
interactive workshop uses a blend of presentation, discussion and practical
exercises to explain the purposes of a Corporate Taxonomy and to introduce
delegates to technologies, techniques and tools for building and deploying
them.
16th - Indexing: Principles and Practice
(www.aslib.com/training/section4.html)
Indexing is one of the best known of 'traditional' library/information
activities. Its importance has not diminished in the digital age. On the
contrary, indexing is of even more importance in digital environments, so
that information can be efficiently found from sources such as the
Internet, or intranets. Indexing is an important part of the broader
process of metadata creation. Many library/information workers are expected
to index material, but not everyone is given sufficient training. This
course covers general principles of indexing, and the indexing process, and
also specific points of practice
20th - Organising Digital Information and Knowledge
(www.aslib.com/training/section4.html)
This one-day course covers all modern tools for organising information,
focusing on taxonomies and thesauri, and gives participants the chance to
construct an outline organisation of their own. Programme features include:
- Overview of information organisation - Metadata - Controlled vocabularies
- Ontologies - Taxonomies - Thesauri - Knowledge organisation on the
Internet- Knowledge organisation for knowledge management - Participants'
own examples
21st - Economics for the Real World: Understanding Economic Data
(www.aslib.com/training/section1.html)
This course addresses the key economic principles that underpin business
and government, bypassing the highly abstract and unrealistic components of
much conventional economics training. It clarifies the issues and
interprets the jargon in order to make economic theory relevant to business
activity. The course aims to equip attendees with a practical understanding
of the ways in which economists try to describe and explain the workings of
the economy, the significance of the many types of economic data and how
changes in them should be interpreted.
22nd - Health and Medical Information
(www.aslib.com/training/section1.html)
The course emphasises the skills necessary to identify health and medical
resources of value to participants in their work environment. Practical,
interactive sessions occupy the major part of the course, allowing
participants to sample a wide range of health and medical networked
information resources and to develop flexible navigational skills and
search strategies. A key theme of the day is to explore means by which the
richness of the Internet can be harnessed to complement and enhance working
practices.
23rd - Electronic Serials Management (www.aslib.com/training/section4.html)
This one-day course will give you an introduction to the theory and
practice of the management of electronic serials and offers the opportunity
to gain an understanding of the rapidly-changing serials environment as
well as an insight into the practical day-to-day management issues relating
to it.
24th - Project Management (www.aslib.com/training/section2.html)
Projects are a fact of life in library and information environments.
Whether they are big projects (such as implementing IT systems, setting up
a website, conducting a customer survey) or on a smaller scale, (such as
introducing a newsletter) all projects represent a steep learning curve for
busy managers. The ultimate success of any project depends on vision,
effective communication skills and good planning. By using tried and tested
methods and techniques a project can be successfully completed without
disrupting normal service routines. This course will give you an overview
of the skills required.
27th - Metadata: Principles and Practice
(www.aslib.com/training/section4.html)
Metadata is one of the most important, but least understood, aspects of the
modern information environment. This course demystifies the concept of
metadata, and shows how and why it is used, in a variety of environments. A
variety of commonly-used metadata formats will be demonstrated for example
Dublin Core, and AACR/MARC - and the way in which metadata creation relates
to the 'traditional' library/information tasks of indexing and cataloguing
will be outlined. Library/information workers are often called to create
metadata records; they may also be asked to evaluate, choose or create
metadata formats for their organisation's information. This course deals
with both these topics, in principle and in practice.
28th - Abstracting and Summarising (www.aslib.com/training/section4.html)
Information overload affects everyone, and there is an urgent need for
people who can extract the key facts and opinions from documents rapidly
and reproduce them accurately. Abstracting and summarising techniques are
essential for current awareness services, enquiry answering and desk
research, preparing briefings and writing reports. This course reassures
participants that abstracting is a learnable skill which we all practise in
our daily lives, and shows how we can use our ordinary reading and writing
skills more efficiently to improve our abstracting technique. Directed by
Tim Buckley Owen, who has more than 20 years' experience in abstracting,
report writing and journalism, the course includes practical exercises
based on a range of different document types.
All our courses are available as onsite events - please email me for a
quote.
If you have any enquiries about these or future events, please email me at
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Kind regards,
Nicole Adamides
Aslib Training, The Holywell Centre, 1 Phipp Street, London, EC2A 4PS
Tel: 020 7613 3031 Fax: 020 7613 5080
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