MARCH 2007

These are the training courses taking place in March at Aslib’s Offices in
London. More details, can be found by following the links:

ENQUIRY HANDLING, Thursday 1st
(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
Fee: £230 plus VAT (Aslib Corporate Members)/ £287.50 plus VAT (non Members)

USING EXCEL SPREADSHEETS TO MANAGE A LIBRARY BUDGET, Friday 2nd (FULLY
BOOKED)
New date added: 30th March (pm)
(www.aslib.com/training/2/16.html)
What this course intends is to demonstrate how you can use Excel
spreadsheets to manage your library budgets. To compare what you estimated
you would spend which what you actually spent. To enable you to know at a
moment's notice where you are at any point in time with your actual and
newly predicted spend and not have to spend ages doing a manual reforecast.
Common and more complex Excel formulas will be explored to make your
professional life easier and to automate as much as possible. It is not
intended to be a book-keeping course, but is aimed at the average library
manager who is too busy to spend ages on budget management but for whom it
is important they can lay their hands on vital, upto-date information
without having to have a major trawl through past invoices and catalogue
records to try and work out where they are in the spending stakes. Course
Director: Fiona Durrant
Fee: £150 plus VAT (Aslib Corporate Members)/£187.50 plus VAT (non Members)

ELECTRONIC SERIALS MANAGEMENT, Tuesday 6th - TWO SPACES LEFT
(www.aslib.com/training/4/10.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.
Course Director: Caroline Moss-Gibbons
Fee: £260 plus VAT (Aslib Corporate Members)/£325 plus VAT (non Members)

BUSINESS INFORMATION, Wednesday 7th
(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: Chris Murphy
Fee: £260 plus VAT (Aslib Corporate Members)/£325 plus VAT (non Members)

BUILDING AND DEPLOYING A CORPORATE TAXONOMY, Thursday 8th
(www.aslib.com/training/4/06.html)
A Corporate Taxonomy is the backbone of an organization’s information
architecture. 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. Course Director: Bob Bater
Fee: £280 plus VAT (Aslib Corporate Members)/£350 plus VAT (non Members)

KNOWLEDGE ARCHITECTURE, Friday 9th
(www.aslib.com/training/3/03.html)
Information Architecture (IA) is evolving in some quarters into Knowledge
Architecture (KA), a compound discipline addressing all the sources of
organizational competence - explicit and tacit - within a single, holistic
framework. In order to add the missing tacit dimension, an additional set of
tools and techniques needs to be included in the Knowledge Architect's
toolkit. This interactive workshop blends presentation, discussion and
practical exercises to consider the evolutionary stages involved in the
transition from IA to KA and to examine the most important tools and
techniques involved. It presents a number of case studies and invites
delegates to discuss the implications for information professionals,
information managers, information architects, knowledge managers and
knowledge workers alike. Course Director: Bob Bater
Fee: £280 plus VAT (Aslib Corporate Members)/£350 plus VAT (non Members)

THE TEN STEP MARKETING TOOLKIT, Monday 12th
(www.aslib.com/training/2/07.html)
This focused one-day course gives delegates practice in the core aspects of
marketing their information services internally or externally. It is a more
focused and practical version of an earlier 2-3 day course. During the day
attendees will work through 10 practical tools that will help them create
value for their customers through applying effective marketing techniques
such as needs identification, market segmentation, product planning and
promotion. Delegates will have the opportunity to apply these techniques by
working on a small marketing project related to their own work situation.
Course Director: David Skyrme
Fee: £260 plus VAT (Aslib Corporate Members)/£325 plus VAT (non Members)

BASIC CATALOGUING AND INDEXING, Wednesday 14th
(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
Fee: £230 plus VAT (Aslib Corporate Members)/£287.50 plus VAT (non Members)

DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT, Tuesday 20th
(www.aslib.com/training/4/28.html)
Most libraries and organisations working with information will create,
store, manage and supply digital information. In order to make sure that
these practices are compliant with the copyright legislation and also to
ensure that these activities are carried out within a controlled
environment, it is essential that they look towards solutions offered by
ICT, such as Digital Rights Management. This one day workshop will provide
an overview of the key areas, solutions and legal landscape relating to
Digital Rights Management for library and information professionals set
within an informal learning environment. Participants will be encouraged to
work in groups in order to share ideas and discuss various issues. Course
Director: Naomi Korn
Fee: £280 plus VAT (Aslib Corporate Members)/£350 plus VAT (non Members)

BRITISH OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS, Wednesday 21st
(www.aslib.com/training/1/02.html)
What exactly is a white paper? How is draft legislation examined and passed
into law? What are statutory instruments and how are they examined? What is
the difference between parliament and government? If your organisation
needs to keep abreast of developments in parliament and government, then
this course is for you. Course Director: Dr Chris Pond
Fee: £260 plus VAT (Aslib Corporate Members)/£325 plus VAT (non Members)

HEALTH AND MEDICAL INFORMATION, Thursday 22nd
(www.aslib.com/training/1/08.html)
Those attending the course will already have access to the Internet and will
have a basic familiarity with its workings. 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. Course Director: Betsy
Anagnostelis
Fee: £260 plus VAT (Aslib Corporate Members)/£325 plus VAT (non Members)

UK LEGAL INFORMATION: AN OVERVIEW, Friday 23rd (am)
(www.aslib.com/training/1/12.html)
The course will cover UK legislation from inception through to repeal,
looking at consultation papers, green and white papers, the progress of Acts
through Parliament and onto their amendment and consolidation. The nature
and role of Statutory Instruments as well as where to find them will be
covered. UK case law will focus on the structure of the courts and the
progress of a case, how they are reported and how to locate unreported
judgments, the difference between a transcript, a law report and unreported
cases and how they are cited, including neutral citations. Course Director:
Fiona Durrant
Fee: £150 plus VAT (Aslib Corporate Members)/£187.50 plus VAT (non Members)

EU LEGAL INFORMATION: AN OVERVIEW, Friday 23rd (pm)
(www.aslib.com/training/1/13.html)
The course will cover the full range of EU legislation ranging from Treaties
to pre-legislative progress. It will include how to find out how a
particular Directive has been implemented in any specific member state. For
case law, it will take a look at the European Court of Justice, Court of
First instance. Other related information will also be covered including
merger decisions and tender notices. Course Director: Fiona Durrant
Fee: £150 plus VAT (Aslib Corporate Members)/£187.50 plus VAT (non Members)

CATALOGUING PRACTICE, Tuesday 27th
(www.aslib.com/training/4/03.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
Fee: £260 plus VAT (Aslib Corporate Members)/£325 plus VAT (non Members)

CONSTRUCTING A THESAURUS, Wednesday 28th – Thursday 29th
(www.aslib.com/training/4/05.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
Fee: £475 plus VAT (Aslib Corporate Members)/£595 plus VAT (non Members)

USING EXCEL SPREADSHEETS TO MANAGE A LIBRARY BUDGET, Friday 30th (pm)
(Please see earlier course on 2nd March)

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
Tel: 020 7613 3031 Fax: 020 7613 5080
www.aslib.com/training Email: [log in to unmask]

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