Details of various events taking place in September and October are listed
below. This includes the first of the new Management Briefings
www.aslib.com/training/2/17.html , as well as the various conferences we are
supporting. The first briefing will look at managing an information service
in takeovers/mergers.
The following autumn conferences are being sponsored by Aslib:
UNICOM Records Management Update
(http://www.unicom.co.uk/recordsmanagement)
Records Management continues to evolve rapidly as changes to practices,
software and new
applications arrive on the scene. Find out how the profession is moving on
and about the new
opportunities and challenges arising.
25 September 2007, London
(Aslib Corporate Members receive a 20% discount on the advertised fee)
Virtual Worlds Forum Europe 2007
(http://virtualworldsforum.com/)
Europe’s first pan-European virtual worlds conference will create a genuine
meeting place for brands and corporations, virtual worlds and the converging
games, entertainment and business spaces.
23-26 October 2007, London
(Aslib Corporate Members receive a 10% discount on the advertised fee)
Translating and the Computer 29
(http://www.aslib.com/conferences/tcindex.html)
Aslib’s own annual conference on translation and translation related tools.
29-30 November 2007, London
SEPTEMBER COURSES:
Please note: all our courses take place at Aslib in London.
Knowledge Architecture: An Exploratory Workshop, 19 September 2007
(http://www.aslib.com/training/3/03.html)
IA however, 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
Course fee: £280 plus VAT (£329) Aslib corporate members / £350 plus VAT
(£411.25) Non members
Cataloguing Practice, 26 September 2007
(http://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.
Course Director: James Shearer
Course fee: £260 plus VAT (£305.50) Aslib corporate members / £325 plus VAT
(£381.88) Non members
Economics for the Real World: Understanding Economic Data, 27 September 2007
(http://www.aslib.com/training/1/05.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.
Course Director: Chris Murphy
Course fee: £260 plus VAT (£305.50) Aslib corporate members / £325 plus VAT
(£381.88) Non members
Effective Desk Research, 28 September 2007
(http://www.aslib.com/training/6/02.html)
This course is aimed at 1) professionals who are at the point in their
career where they are adding longer term project work to their basic
information retrieval duties and 2) managers/mentors helping such people. It
details a step-by-step structure that can help manage the research process
with a particular emphasis on reference interview techniques, data
collection, methods of adding value and managing an effective feedback
process. The focus is on practicality and the course is based on systems the
lecturer has helped set up and run himself. According to the particular
needs of the group on the day, a number of pre-prepared units can be slotted
in including, for instance, using the telephone as a research tool and
managing a fee-charging service. The emphasis of the day is very much to
encourage debate and best practice sharing amongst delegates who have the
opportunity to discuss the challenges they face with fellow professionals.
Course Director: John Harrow
Course fee: £260 plus VAT (£305.50) Aslib corporate members / £325 plus VAT
(£381.88) Non members
OCTOBER (in brief) (More details on www.aslib.com/training)
Understanding and Assessing Information Needs, Tuesday 2, £280+VAT
(£350+VAT)
Electronic Serials Management, Wednesday 3, £260+VAT(£325+VAT)
Abstracting and Summarising, Thursday 4, £260+VAT(£325+VAT)
Using Excel Spreadsheets to manage a library budget (pm), Friday 5,
£150+VAT(£187.50+VAT)
Classification Practice, Monday 8, £260+VAT(£325+VAT)
Digital Rights Management, Tuesday 9, £280+VAT (£350+VAT)
Copyright Policies, Dealing with Infringements and Risk Management,
Wednesday 10, £280+VAT (£350+VAT)
Building & Deploying a Corporate Taxonomy, Thursday 11, £280+VAT (£350+VAT)
Basic Cataloguing and Indexing, Monday 15, £230+VAT (£287.50+VAT)
Web 2.0: An Overview, Tuesday 16, £260+VAT(£325+VAT)
British Official Publications, Wednesday 17, £260+VAT(£325+VAT)
Designing Training and Coaching Sessions, Monday 22, £260+VAT(£325+VAT)
British Company Law, Tuesday 23, £260+VAT(£325+VAT)
Indexing: Principles and Practice, Thursday 25, £260+VAT(£325+VAT)
Project Management, Friday 26, £230+VAT (£287.50+VAT)
Statistics for Business, Monday 29, £260+VAT(£325+VAT)
Constructing a Thesaurus, Tuesday 30 – Wednesday 31, £475+VAT(£595+VAT)
Management Briefings: Managing Information Services in takeovers/mergers,
Wednesday 31 (4-6pm), £40+VAT (£50+VAT) NEW
IN-COMPANY TRAINING SERVICE
All our courses are available as onsite/in-company 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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