SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER EVENTS
Aslib is sponsoring the following Conferences:
UNICOM: Social Network Tools and their Business Application: how Blogs,
Podcasting, Instant Messaging, RSS and Wikis are changing the way we work
20-21 September 2006, London
Further details: http://www.aslib.com/conferences/unicom.htm
Aslib Corporate Members are offered a 20% discount on the conference fee!
GARTNER PORTALS, CONTENT & COLLABORATION SUMMIT 2006
Strategies and Best Practices for the High-Performance Workplace
2-3 October 2006, London
Further details: http://www.aslib.com/conferences/gartner.htm
Special discount for Managing Information Magazine readers.
These are the September courses taking place at Aslib in London:
12th - Building and Deploying a Corporate Taxonomy - FULL
14th - Metadata: Principles and Practice
20th - Classification Practice
26th - Abstracting and Summarising
27th - Economics for the Real World
28th - Developing an Effective Team
29th - Effective Desk Research
(Details of these courses can be found at: www.aslib.com/training)
These are the October courses taking place at Aslib in London:
3rd - Designing Training and Coaching Sessions
4th- Running Training and Coaching Sessions
5th - Enquiry Handling: Getting the Right Answer Each Time - FULL
9th - Business Information - 2 places remaining
10th - Presentation Skills
11th - Basic Cataloguing and Indexing
12th - Creative Commons Licences, pm course
13th - British Official Publications
16th - British Company Law
17th - 18th - Constructing a Thesaurus (NOW ALSO AVAILABLE AS A DISTANCE
LEARNING COURSE)
23rd - Cataloguing Practice
25th - Developing Your Management and Leadership Skills
26th - Information Architecture - An Introduction, am course
27th - Evaluating Digital Information
30th - Developing Your Information Strategy
31st - Understanding and Assessing Your Information Needs
Details of the October courses appear below. Please follow the links for
further information, including fees:
3rd - DESIGNING TRAINING AND COACHING SESSIONS
(www.aslib.com/training/2/02.html)
This practical course will introduce key aspects of designing and delivering
training to meet organisational and departmental business objectives. It
will enable you to identify the needs of different types of learners and it
covers a range of practical topics to ensure that you design the right kind
of training to the staff who require it. This will enable your staff to
maximise their performance.
Course Director: Barbara Allan
4th - RUNNING TRAINING AND COACHING SESSIONS
(www.aslib.com/training/2/11.html)
This programme will enable you to deliver and evaluate effective training
and coaching sessions. You will briefly explore the practical aspects of
implementing training and coaching sessions e.g. financial side of training,
selecting a trainer, health and safety. You will explore working in
one-to-one and small group situations using the principles of coaching and
training. You will also consider how to effectively run training sessions
using ICT. Finally, you will learn how to evaluate training programmes and
sessions.
Course Director: Barbara Allan
5TH - ENQUIRY HANDLING: GETTING THE RIGHT ANSWER EACH TIME
(www.aslib.com/training/4/11.html)
Everyone has access to search engines these days, so information
professionals need to demonstrate special expertise when it comes to finding
the information their enquirers need. This course introduces participants to
the full range of basic enquiry answering techniques, showing how it is
possible to tackle any subject, even when you don’t know what information
sources may be available to help. Presented by the author of the
best-selling Facet Publishing book Success at the Enquiry Desk, this course
concentrates on practicalities rather than sources, but also includes
suggestions for 25 multi-purpose information sources you can't afford to
ignore.
Course Director: Tim Buckley Owen
9th - BUSINESS INFORMATION (www.aslib.com/training/1/03.html)
Effective performance in meeting business information needs requires an
understanding of the key concepts, jargon and institutions relating to this
type of information and an awareness of the principal sources through which
it can be retrieved. This course meets both needs and is directed at
information professionals who have either not previously dealt with
information in the business field or only limited experience of handling it.
Course Director: Christopher Murphy
10th - PRESENTATION SKILLS (www.aslib.com/training/2/09.html)
This intensive course will help you to make memorable and effective
presentations. It is a very practical workshop and you will gain the
opportunity to develop your presentation techniques in a non-threatening
atmosphere.
Course Director: Barbara Allan
11th - BASIC CATALOGUING AND INDEXING (www.aslib.com/training/4/02.html)
This course is aimed at people who need to organise a collection of
information but who have little or no knowledge or experience of how to do
it. The collection may include books, periodicals, photographs, videos,
computer discs, Internet page references and other material. The course will
show beginners how to create and maintain control over this material so that
required items and information can be retrieved. The emphasis is on
practical cataloguing and participants are invited to bring typical material
from their collections to form a group of items that can be considered in
the practical sessions. The final section of the course considers how
computers can assist in cataloguing and indexing, with practical
demonstrations. However, no prior computer experience is needed for this.
Course Director: James Shearer
12th - CREATIVE COMMONS LICENCES - PM COURSE
(www.aslib.com/training/4/25.html)
Creative Commons (CC) licences are a way to clarify the conditions of use of
a work and avoid many of the problems current copyright laws pose. This
half-day workshop is a basic introduction to Creative Commons and its
implications for the information professional. Participants will look at the
process of choosing a licence; then through discussion and group work will
consider related issues and the role Creative Commons will play in the
future.
Course Director: Marieke Guy
13th - BRITISH OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS (www.aslib.com/training/1/02.html)
If your organisation needs to keep abreast of current developments in
parliament and government, then this course is for you. By the end of the
day, you will be able to:
trace documents in hard copy and electronic forms
understand how a Bill goes through and how a select committee functions
deal with enquiries for basic historical government and parliamentary
documents
feel confident in appraising documents and their place in the system.
Course Director: Dr Chris Pond
16th - BRITISH COMPANY LAW (www.aslib.com/training/1/01.html)
'Very important, but far too difficult for non-specialists' is how company
law is typically viewed. This course distils the key legal principles which
govern corporate activity for those who lack the time to follow lengthy
conventional legal courses. It also goes beyond setting out the formal
legislative framework to examine how these rules are applied in practice in
British companies, featuring copious real life examples and looking at
actual company documents. The course also identifies sources for researching
companies and their directors.
Course Director: Christopher Murphy
17th - 18th - CONSTRUCTING A THESAURUS
(www.aslib.com/training/section4.html)
Most text retrieval systems require the support of a structured and defined
vocabulary to perform effectively. In-house systems often fall short of
their potential performance, mostly because of an inadequate supporting term
vocabulary. This course is excellent for those who need to develop an
understanding of using language to construct a thesaurus. It is of
particular value to database managers, librarians, information officers and
system analysts operating and developing text retrieval systems outside the
library environment. The two days will involve a mix of lectures,
discussions and practical work.
Course Director: Dr David Bawden
23rd - CATALOGUING PRACTICE (www.aslib.com/training/section4.html)
If you have experience of cataloguing or database compilation but need
guidance or practice using AACR2 and MARC (including MARC21), or want to
refresh knowledge gained some time ago, this course will give you the skills
needed, including some practice in using online public access catalogues
(OPACs) and thinking about their design criteria. Participants are invited
to bring typical material from their collections to form a group of items
that can be considered in the practical sessions. This course is not aimed
at complete beginners; they would benefit by taking Aslib's companion course
“Basic Cataloguing and Indexing” prior to this course.
Course Director: James Shearer
25th - DEVELOPING YOUR LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT SKILLS
(www.aslib.com/trainingsection2.html)
The first few years of a new manager's working life involve developing a
range of basic management skills and techniques, and developing confidence
in putting them into practice. Experienced managers sometimes find that
their management skills and techniques become static. In today's
fast-changing environment it is essential that all managers continue to
develop their knowledge and skills, and this workshop provides the
opportunities for experienced managers to review their current management
and leadership skills and identify ways of improving them.
Course Director: Barbara Allan
26th - INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE: AN INTRODUCTION (am workshop)
(www.aslib.com/training/section3.html)
This introductory morning workshop is designed to help information and
knowledge specialists to improve structure, presentation, navigation and
labelling of electronic content on corporate web sites.
Workshop Leader: Shelley Hardcastle
27th - EVALUATING DIGITAL INFORMATION (www.aslib.com/training/section4.html)
The ability to acquire external information appropriate to your
organisation's needs is a skill that no enterprise can afford to be without.
The competitiveness of business and the fast pace of change have increased
the need for rapid access to high quality information. The ease of access to
the Internet and the exponential growth of information available have
increased the amount of choice. If you are involved with the purchase of
information products, this course is essential.
Course Director: Olivia Freeman
30th - DEVELOPING AN INFORMATION STRATEGY
(www.aslib.com/training/section4.html)
This course is aimed at information professionals and others who have
responsibility for, or interest in, planning the development of their
information services. It introduces a number of key information strategy
issues and ideas, and considers some techniques and models that may be used
to develop possible strategic approaches. Case studies will be used to
illustrate a variety of considerations, and practical examples taken from
participants' experiences will be used where possible.
Course Director: James Shearer
31st - UNDERSTANDING AND ASSESSING INFORMATION NEEDS
(www.aslib.com/training/section4.html)
Understanding the information needs of users - individuals and groups - is
an absolute necessity of an information worker, or information service, is
to be effective.
This course gives both a thorough understanding of the concepts, and
practical skills for understanding and assessing information, from the
immediate needs of a single user needing information (the 'reference
interview') to the all-encompassing information needs of a whole
organisation (part of an information management audit)
Course Director: Dr David Bawden
All our courses are available as onsite events. Organisations that need to
train 6 or more staff in the same subject will save on course fees by having
the course onsite. Please contact me if you would like 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
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