CILIP Training & Development are pleased to announce our February 2010 courses.
Don't forget - CILIP members receive up to 40% discount on all CILIP training.
SUPPORTING THE RESEARCH STUDENT
2 FEBRUARY 2010, LONDON
Gain an understanding of the academic research process to enable you to help and support the wide range of needs that research and PhD students require. Know what is expected and develop strategies for improving ways in which to support them by attending this popular CILIP course.
PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS
* The research process - what is involved in achieving a PhD/other research degrees?
* What the research student expects?
* Providing virtual support services
FULL DETAILS:
http://www.cilip.org.uk/jobs-careers/training/pages/supporting-research-student.aspx
ROVING WITH A PURPOSE IN HE/FE LIBRARIES
16 FEBRUARY 2010, LONDON
Roving, or floor walking, has recently been adopted by a number of library and information services in order to become more proactive, providing point of use assistance to users wherever they are. This intensive one-day CILIP workshop will give an introduction to the concept of roving and provide you with practical ideas and examples to help develop roving in your own service.
PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS
* What roving means and why it matters?
* How roving can improve services in academic libraries?
* Developing roving in practice
FULL DETAILS:
http://www.cilip.org.uk/jobs-careers/training/pages/roving-with-purpose-he-fe-libraries.aspx
TWITTER FOR LIBRARIANS
3 FEBRUARY 2010, LONDON
Get introduced to Twitter and learn to create an effective profile. Designed specifically for librarians, this popular one-day course will allow you to explore Twitter applications, create your own accounts, examine Twitter search engines and provide you with tips on how to get the best out of the service.
PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS
* What is Twitter?
* Creating an account
* Third party resources and extending the use of Twitter
* Using Twitter as a search tool
* Case study - how one library uses Twitter
* Using Twitter in a library setting as a promotional tool
FULL DETAILS:
http://www.cilip.org.uk/jobs-careers/training/pages/twitter-librarians.aspx
USING MULTIMEDIA TO PROMOTE YOUR SERVICE
25 FEBRUARY 2010, LONDON
Gain an introduction to a wide variety of different multimedia tools in the areas of video, sound and presentation that can be used to help promote your service and offer a new way to provide information to your clients. Create a Flickr account, embed YouTube videos and look at Podcasts on this new one-day course.
PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS
* Online editing resources for photographs
* YouTube videos - uploading, embedding
* Podcasts
FULL DETAILS:
http://www.cilip.org.uk/jobs-careers/training/pages/using-multimedia-promote-service.aspx
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