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 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 SPREADSHEETS 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:

 

-         Training rooms that have natural daylight and air-conditioning

-         A business centre/facility - internet access for the use of
trainers and delegates

-         A light continental breakfast on arrival

-         Unlimited Tea, Coffee & biscuits

-         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.

-         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
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Kind regards,

Nicole

 

 

 

Nicole Adamides

ASLIB Training Manager

207 Davina House, 137-149 Goswell Road, London, EC1V 7ET

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