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Happy New Year!

Please find below the latest list of TFPL courses for February 2009.  

All of our courses can be tailored to your individual needs and delivered onsite 
at your place of business.  For more information, please visit 
www.tfpl.com/training. 

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Introduction to Taxonomies, 3rd February
This one-day course gives an overview of taxonomy, looking at what we mean 
by taxonomy and how it can support information management and 
discoverability.
http://www.tfpl.com/skills_development/courses/cd.cfm?linkid=TR1472 

Building a fileplan for electronic records, 4th February
EDRM systems offer the opportunity for organisations to deploy a single 
classification structure against which any folder of documents can be 
classified. For this to be of benefit to the organisation it needs to be: 
comprehensive (covering all the activities in your organisation) - future-proof 
(so that you don’t have to change it when organisational structure or 
processes change) - logical, consistent and concise (so that it works well as a 
classification) - understood and acceptable to people in your organisation
This course will prepare you for building such a scheme.
http://www.tfpl.com/skills_development/courses/cd.cfm?linkid=TR979 

Be a better searcher without Google, 5th February
While Google is acknowledged as being the pre-eminent internet search 
engine, effective searchers will have a far wider selection of resources in their 
information armoury.
This course will look at alternatives to Google which allow searchers to work 
more effectively. It will not only look at alternative search engines, but will 
also consider other methods of obtaining information.  
http://www.tfpl.com/skills_development/courses/cd.cfm?linkid=TR1186 

Chris Collison masterclass: Embedding and sustaining knowledge management, 
6th February
Many organisations implementing knowledge management are looking for ways 
to ensure that the success from their activities is sustainable, and ultimately 
becomes part of "the way we do business around here". Drawing from his 
experience in BP’s renowned KM team, his best-selling book "Learning to Fly" 
and his recent role as Centrica’s Director of Change and Knowledge 
Management, Chris Collison leads this practical workshop suitable for 
knowledge practitioners at all stages of their implementation journey.
http://www.tfpl.com/skills_development/courses/cd.cfm?linkid=TR888 

Web 2.0 for Information Professionals, 10th February
Blogs, wikis, feeds, tags and social networking sites: an array of different 
tools that have made it as easy for people to contribute and publish content 
to the internet as to consume and access it. 

Web 2.0 tools have already transformed the world wide web, what can they 
do for our organisations? How can we help our organisations harness the 
potential of web 2.0 tools to support information sharing between colleagues, 
to keep abreast with current developments and to engage positively with 
customers and stakeholders? And how can we help organisations avoid the 
pitfalls and risks of web 2.0?
http://www.tfpl.com/skills_development/courses/cd.cfm?linkid=TR1407 


Digital Copyright, 11 February
This course considers how copyright applies to electronic information. Whether 
you want to digitise material that is currently only available as hard-copy 
content, to make copies of born digital content, to provide networked access 
to copyright materials, or to download complete reports from the internet, this 
course sets out to guide delegates through the copyright maze. Ample 
opportunities will be provided throughout the day for delegates to ask 
questions or to discuss any unresolved issues.
http://www.tfpl.com/skills_development/courses/cd.cfm?linkid=TR1218 

Introduction to SharePoint, 12th February
This one-day course will outline the key features of SharePoint, and show how 
its user interface, navigation and search work. The course will explore how 
you can make the most of these features when using SharePoint to manage 
your organisation's information assets.
http://www.tfpl.com/skills_development/courses/cd.cfm?linkid=TR1435 

Integrating document, knowledge, records and content technologies, 23rd 
February
This one day course is a basic introduction to the principles and practices of 
how document, records, knowledge and content technologies can fit together 
to offer an enterprise-wide solution.
http://www.tfpl.com/skills_development/courses/cd.cfm?linkid=TR971 

Information architecture foundation programme: bringing order to information 
chaos, 24th February
This one day foundation programme provides an essential introduction to the 
important principles of information architecture design for the information and 
knowledge professional. It explores how modern information resources need to 
be organised, classified and formatted for effective navigation and retrieval. It 
introduces the current thinking on electronic collection design, information 
classification, meta data standards and information navigation techniques. It 
also describes specialised roles and publication processes required to make an 
effective information architecture work.
http://www.tfpl.com/skills_development/courses/cd.cfm?linkid=TR1000 

Training the trainer: preparing LIS professionals to train their users, 
24th February & 25th March
Training has become an integral part of the job for many library and 
information professionals, as more information becomes available and end-
users access more information from their desktops. The role of the LIS team 
has expanded into facilitation, as they need to pass on their skills and 
knowledge to colleagues. This two day course provides the background 
necessary for you to prepare and deliver appropriate training for your clients, 
whether the clients are members of your own team, trainee solicitors, 
corporate financiers, health workers or managing directors. Practical exercises 
will help you develop your confidence. The two days are split so that 
delegates have the opportunity to prepare for the second day.

Strictly limited to 8 delegates.
http://www.tfpl.com/skills_development/courses/cd.cfm?linkid=TR1034 

Introduction to Records Management, 26th February
Records management is the discipline that enables organizations to keep 
evidence of the work that they do. The task has become both more important 
and more challenging in this electronic age, when colleagues have so many 
different places in which to store and share the documentation of their work. 
This one day course looks at the core principle of records management, and 
how they can be applied to assess and improve your organisation’s record 
management systems, policies and practice.
http://www.tfpl.com/skills_development/courses/cd.cfm?linkid=TR966 

Practical implementation of ISO 15489, 27th February
An opportunity to explore the standard with one of its authors and also to 
gain an insight to new developments as the standard is being rewritten. 
 
This one day workshop covers the systems analysis approach to records 
management as advocated by ISO TR 15489. It explores how this can be used 
firstly to design robust record systems and secondly how this approach can 
support knowledge management strategies within the organisation.
http://www.tfpl.com/skills_development/courses/cd.cfm?linkid=TR975 


If you require any further information, please do not hesitate to contact the 
training team on 0207 332 6000 or [log in to unmask]

Kind regards,

Ogden Hodge
Training Manager
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