In this update, I have included the following information:

- November and December courses 

- Aslib’s 30th Translating and the Computer Conference



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:

NOVEMBER 2008

USING EXCEL SPREADSHEETS TO MANAGE A LIBRARY BUDGET, Friday 7 (pm),
£150+VAT(£187.50+VAT) http://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, up-to-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 Fogden



CATALOGUING PRACTICE, Wednesday 12, £260+VAT (£325+VAT) 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;
they would benefit by taking Aslib's companion course "Basic
Cataloguing and Indexing" prior to this course. Course Director: James
Shearer



BRITISH OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS, Monday 17, £260+VAT (£325+VAT)

http://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? 
To find out the answers, come to Aslib’s course.   Course Director:
Chris Pond



BUILDING AND DEPLOYING A CORPORATE TAXONOMY, Tuesday 18, £280+VAT (£350+VAT)

http://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



INDEXING: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE, Wednesday 19, £260+VAT (£325+VAT)

http://www.aslib.com/training/4/16.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, 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: Professor David Bawden



IMPLEMENTING KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT INITIATIVES, Thursday 20, £280+VAT (£350+VAT) FULL

http://www.aslib.com/training/3/02.html

The seminar explores the essential elements of a KM Strategy for charting

the way forward, and examines the key role of the Knowledge Audit as a
basic framework for discovering and unlocking organisational knowledge
within operational environments. These processes are set alongside the
need to facilitate changes of attitude and behaviour in individuals in
their working relationships where ever necessary, and will sometimes
drive changes in processes and procedures as well.  Course Directors:
Bob Bater and Graham Robertson



ENQUIRY HANDLING – Find an Answer Every Time, Monday 24, £230+VAT(£287.50+VAT)

http://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

 

ELECTRONIC SERIALS MANAGEMENT, Tuesday 25, £260+VAT(£325+VAT)

http://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



DECEMBER 2008

Information Architecture, Monday 1, £260+VAT(£325+VAT)

Knowledge Management: An Introduction, Wednesday 3, £260+VAT(£325+VAT)

Developing Your Management and Leadership Skills, Friday 5, £260+VAT(£325+VAT)

Web 2.0: An Overview, Tuesday 9, £260+VAT(£325+VAT)

Copyright for Information Providers: An Introduction, Wednesday 10, £230+VAT(£287.50+VAT)

Copyright for Information Providers: Advanced, Thursday 11, £280+VAT(£350+VAT) 

Copyright for Information Providers: Advanced, Friday 12, £280+VAT(£350+VAT)

How to Design Training Sessions, Tuesday 16, £230+VAT(£287.50+VAT)





CONFERENCE

Aslib’s Translating and the Computer 30, 27-28 November 2008, London

(www.aslib.com/conferences)



The conference is now in its 30th year!  Come and join us at the
Holiday Inn Camden Lock to celebrate this anniversary with an exciting
programme of papers and panels.  Speakers include those from the
following organisations: The European Court of Auditors, Imperial
College, TransForm, National Research Council of Canada, Saarland
University, ANLOC, Palex Languages and Software as well as many
others.  Full details, including the programme, can be found at
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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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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