In this training update, I have included the following information:
-         June courses that have places available
-         July courses (Including details of an updated course: Effective Team Building Skills)
-         Conferences which Aslib is supporting, offering discount to corporate members
 
Don’t forget, if your organisation books any 5 courses during the year, you can get a 6th one-day course free of charge.
 
All our courses are available as onsite events.  We can also help you plan a conference or event, providing you with all the administrative support you need.  Please contact me, if you would like a quote.  My contact details are at the bottom of this email.
 
COURSES:
 
JUNE 2008
BUSINESS INFORMATION, Thursday 12, £260+VAT (£325+VAT)http://www.aslib.com/training/1/03.html
 
RUNNING AN EFFECTIVE INFORMATION SERVICE WITH LIMITED RESOURCES, Tuesday 17, £230+VAT (£287.50+VAT)http://www.aslib.com/training/4/12.html
IMPLEMENTING KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT INITIATIVES, Wednesday 18, http://www.aslib.com/training/3/02.html
ENQUIRY HANDLING – FIND AN ANSWER EVERY TIME, Tuesday 24, £230+VAT (£287.50+VAT)http://www.aslib.com/training/4/11.html
KNOWLEDGE ARCHITECTURE: An Exploratory Workshop, Friday 27, £280+VAT (£350+VAT)http://www.aslib.com/training/3/03.html
 
JULY 2008
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, Tuesday 1, £260+VAT (£325+VAT)
This seminar will give you an understanding of what knowledge management is, how it has emerged from several key strands of management thinking and a useful review of many of the initiatives that can and are being implemented. Perhaps most importantly it will encourage you to respond positively to the opportunity and the challenge represented by this subject. If the leading writers are correct about its significance for this century, can you afford not to? Seminar Director: Nick Willard   http://www.aslib.com/training/3/01.html
 
 
ABSTRACTING AND SUMMARISING, Wednesday 2, £260+VAT (£325+VAT)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 practice in our daily lives, and shows how we can use our ordinary reading and writing skills more efficiently to improve our abstracting technique. This course reassures participants that summarising - and the rapid reading that goes with it - are learnable skills, and shows how we can use our existing 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. Course Director: Tim Buckley Owen http://www.aslib.com/training/4/01.html
 
 
EFFECTIVE TEAM BUILDING COURSE (UPDATED COURSE), Thursday 3, £260+VAT(£325+VAT)
This course will cover: the characteristics of an effective team; team roles - Meredith Belbin; elements and attributes needed to make different types of teams work well; team development and team dynamics; understanding your role in the team as team leaders; managing different types of team - new; dynamic; stagnant; using team activities to energize and involve people; feedback and communication - vital skills for team leaders in motivating and developing their people; and, handling challenging situations within the team.  Course Director: Nicola Wise   http://www.aslib.com/training/2/03.html
 
 
UK LEGAL INFORMATION: AN OVERVIEW, Friday 4 (morning), £150+VAT(£187.50+VAT)
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 http://www.aslib.com/training/1/12.html
 
 
EU LEGAL INFORMATION: AN OVERVIEW, Friday 4 (afternoon), £150+VAT(£187.50+VAT)
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 http://www.aslib.com/training/1/13.html
 
 
COPYRIGHT FOR INFORMATION PROVIDERS: AN INTRODUCTION, Tuesday 8, £230+VAT(£287.50+VAT)
Copyright is an increasingly complex problem for information providers. An awareness of the many pitfalls is vital the efficient management of information services. Whatever area you work in you will come across copyright as a live issue and need to understand how to handle the challenges it poses. At the end of the day you will have a firm understanding of what problems you may face and be able to alert colleagues to possible problems and also advise your organisation on how to protect its rights. Course Director: Graham Cornish http://www.aslib.com/training/4/07.html
 
 
COPYRIGHT FOR INFORMATION PROVIDERS: ADVANCED, Wednesday 9, £280+VAT(£350+VAT)
A basic understanding of copyright highlights just how complex an issue it is. Knowing how the law works is just the beginning but you need to be able to map basic concepts new and innovative information delivery systems and technologies. After this day's training you will have a grater understanding of how to interpret the law and how to put in place management systems that take account of the rapidly changing techniques used for information storage and delivery.  Course Director: Graham Cornish        http://www.aslib.com/training/4/26.html
 
 
BRITISH OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS, Monday 14, £260+VAT (£325+VAT)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?  On completing the course, 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  and feel confident in appraising documents and their place in the system.Course Director: Chris Pond     http://www.aslib.com/training/1/02.html
 
 
BUILDING AND DEPLOYING A CORPORATE TAXONOMY, Tuesday 15, £280+VAT(£350+VAT)
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. Workshop Director: Bob Bater http://www.aslib.com/training/4/06.html
 
 
ELECTRONIC SERIALS MANAGEMENT, Wednesday 16, £260+VAT(£325+VAT)
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 http://www.aslib.com/training/4/10.html  
 
 
INDEXING: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE, Thursday 17. £260+VAT(£325+VAT)
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, in the indexing of all kinds of material, emphasising the value of controlled indexing languages. The relations between indexing and other ways of analysing and denoting content (abstracting, summarising, classifying, categorising etc.) are emphasised. The course also deals with understanding, and creating, indexing policies, which govern the way in which indexing is carried out. Course Director: Prof. David Bawden   http://www.aslib.com/training/4/16.html
 
 
CONFERENCES
Aslib is supporting a number of conferences this year:
 
Translating and the Computer 30, 27-28 November 2008, London
Aslib’s annual conference.  (www.aslib.com/conferences)
Digital Asset Management and Marketing Operations Best PracticeMark your calendars for the most important industry event for Digital Asset Management (DAM) and Marketing Operations.  Henry Stewart London takes place 25-26 June 2008 at The Radisson Portman Hotel, London. (www.aslib.com/conferences)  Aslib Members are offered a discount, please visit the Aslib web page for details.
Other conferences will be added - please continue to check www.aslib.com/conferences.
 
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.
 
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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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