Taking place on
19-20 November:
TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER CONFERENCE
Aslib’s own
“Translating and the Computer” Conference is now in its 31st year
and will take place in November in London. Further details, including the programme, can
be found at: http://www.aslib.com/conferences. This year, the programme includes panels on
who owns Translation Memories and on crowdsourcing.
COURSES:
Details of November’s
public courses are included in this email update. All our events are available as onsite
training courses.
Don’t forget, if
your organization books two delegates onto a course, the third one can attend
for just £75 plus VAT!!
USING EXCEL
SPREASDHEETS TO MANAGE A LIBRARY BUDGET, Friday 6 (pm)
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. Further
information: http://www.aslib.com/training/2/16.html
ABSTRACTING AND SUMMARISING, Thursday 12,
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 practise 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. Further information: http://www.aslib.com/training/4/01.html
UK
LEGAL INFORMATION: AN OVERVIEW, Friday 13 (am)
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. Further information: http://www.aslib.com/training/1/12.html
EU LEGAL INFORMATION: AN OVERVIEW, Friday 13
(pm)
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.
Further information: http://www.aslib.com/training/1/13.html
INDEXING: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE, Wednesday
18
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. Further
information: http://www.aslib.com/training/4/16.html
ENQUIRY HANDLING – FIND AN ANSWER EVERY
TIME, Monday 23
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. Further information: http://www.aslib.com/training/4/11.html
ELECTRONIC SERIALS MANAGEMENT, Tuesday 24
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. Further information: http://www.aslib.com/training/4/10.html
BRITISH OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS, Wednesday 25
You should attend if:
your organisation needs to keep abreast
of current developments in parliament and government you have to deal with the publications
but are hazy about the system you need to monitor the development of
policy or legislation
Further
information: http://www.aslib.com/training/1/02.html
KNOWLEDGE ARCHITECTURE, Wednesday 25
Information
Architecture (IA) has established itself in recent years as a portfolio of
practices combining aspects of web design, usability, metadata management and
information science with a view to creating information systems which people
find both useful and usable. Yet, IA conventionally addresses only one
component of organizational competence - explicit knowledge (information).
Although information must be managed effectively, in the knowledge economy this
is not sufficient on its own, leaving out of account as it does, that other
vital component of organizational competence tacit knowledge. 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. Further
information: http://www.aslib.com/training/3/03.html
IMPLEMENTING KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
INITIATIVES, Thursday 26
Implementing Knowledge Management Initiatives
offers all those who are responsible for or who are considering promoting the
better management of knowledge within their organisations a practical arena to
explore the principal issues that have to be addressed within such projects.
Unlike many other organisational practices, KM cannot work as an imposed
discipline. Its efficacy depends in the end, on people understanding its
benefits to them, to their teams and departments and to the organisation as a
whole, and in their willingness to let the aims of KM inform and guide
everything they do at work. It is therefore important to seek out ways in
which KM practices can be embedded into organisational culture at key levels,
from senior managers through to individual staff members. 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. Further information: http://www.aslib.com/training/3/02.html
EFFECTIVE TECHNIQUES IN DESK RESEARCH, Friday 27
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. Further information: http://www.aslib.com/training/6/02.html
COURSE VENUES
In 2009, Aslib Training uses an external
training room provider etc Venues,
one of the UK’s leading providers
of training space, and uses two venues in London:
Bonhill House and the Hatton. Bonhill House, a prime
location, in the heart of the city, is a converted Victorian building with high
ceilings and arched windows, flooding each room with natural daylight.
The Hatton, a seven-storey training and meeting venue in London's Hatton
Garden, provides an
exceptionally stylish and vibrant training and conference environment. In 2009, when delegates attend an Aslib
training course at these venues, they will benefit from:
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Training rooms that have natural daylight and air-conditioning
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A business centre/facility - internet access for the use of trainers and delegates
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A light continental breakfast on arrival
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Unlimited Tea, Coffee & biscuits
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A 2 course hot & cold lunch including a selection of three hot main
courses from the chef’s daily menu, including a vegetarian option, followed by
dessert or fresh fruit accompanied by soft drinks & tea/coffee.
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Complimentary wi-fi throughout
ONSITE TRAINING SERVICE
All our courses are
available as onsite events. If you have
5-6 colleagues that need training in the same subject area, then the most
cost-effective way to achieve this is to have a course delivered at your
organisation. Our onsite training
service can offer of the shelf training as well as bespoke packages. 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.
If you have any enquiries about these or future events, please email me at [log in to unmask]
Kind regards,
Nicole Adamides
www.aslib.com/training
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