ASLIB Training Services

ASLIB has been providing training and development programmes for information professionals for almost 70 years in key aspects of information work. We offer public courses and workshops, as well as on-site and distance programmes.

ASLIB provides training and development programmes in the following areas:
•• Business and Official Information Sources
•• Cataloguing and Classification
•• Copyright and Intellectual Property
•• General Management and Communication Skills
•• Information Governance
•• Knowledge Management
•• Library and Information Management Skills
•• Web and Internet Skills



January- February 2012 Training courses


25th January 2012

Web 2.0 and Social Media for Communication: Personalities, Presence and Self-Promotion
This course is for anyone interested in use of web 2.0 and social media tools to promote services. Emphasis will be on ideas for those working in LIS, but the approach will be broad. The course goes beyond consideration of individual applications, to focus on a spectrum of techniques to develop a consistent, professional persona and engaging presence for promotional purposes. 

Course highlights:
The programme will cover: 

•Exemplary use of popular web 2.0 tools, including twitter, facebook, blogs, media-sharing apps, locator services and feed-readers
•How these tools can be combined to maximise digital presence
•Technicalities and social concerns of developing a social media presence and personality
•Dealing with issues of privacy and identity theft




26th January 2012
Organizing Digital Information and Knowledge 

This one-day course covers all modern tools for organizing information, focusing on taxonomies and thesauri, and gives participants the chance to construct an outline organization of their own. 

Course highlights:
The programme will cover: 

•Overview of information organization 
•Metadata 
•Controlled vocabularies 
•Ontologies 
•Taxonomies 
•Thesauri 
•Knowledge organization on the Internet 
•Knowledge organization for knowledge management 
•Participants' own examples 



7th February 2012
Metadata: Principles and Practice 
This course provides a practical introduction to principles and practice of metadata, using as examples the most widely-used formats. 

Course highlights:
The programme will cover: 

•what is metadata? 
•use and significance of metadata 
•metadata formats; some important examples 
•descriptive and subject metadata 
•metadata creation, indexing and cataloguing 
•creating and evaluating metadata formats 



20th February 2012

Using Excel Spreadsheets to Manage a Library Budget (half-day workshop)

This half-day course is for library managers too busy to spend ages on budget management but for whom it is important to access vital, up-to-date information to work out where they are in the spending stakes. The aim is to demonstrate how, using common and more complex formulae, Excel spreadsheets can be used to manage library budgets.

Course highlights:
•The budget cycle.
•The different types of figures/terminology:
Requested budget
Given budget
Increase on previous year's spend
Actual spend
Savings
Overspend
Reforecast
Quotes vs. estimates
Recording receipt of invoice vs. actual payment
•A practical look at a spreadsheet example: 
Percentage formulaeRecording monthly, periodic and annual payments
How to record subs with monthly invoices that don't fit in with your same financial year
Copying contents of cells to a summary sheet
Working out the rolling reforecast
How to work out what is overdue
How to record credits


20th February 2012
Negotiating Online Subscriptions (half-day)
Course highlights:
The programme will cover: 

•Preparing for meetings.
•Practical clauses for letters reserving the right to cancel your subscription. 
•What to look at in the contract.
•Clause terms, including take down clauses to mitigate the unknown
•Hints and tips for arguing your case.
•How to get the price down and/or negotiate more favourable terms.
•Strategies to keep costs down for future years.
•Discussion of own experiences and concerns.


27th February
Introduction to Data Protection (half-day workshop)
Management of personal data is governed in the UK by the Data Protection Act and related regulations. Contrary to many perceptions organisations can both effectively use information about individuals and comply with these principles. Failure can result in criminal or financial penalties and adverse publicity. 

Course highlights:
•What is personal data
•Collection to destruction - the compliant information life cycle
•Meeting the rights of the individual
•Sharing information with other organisations or people
•How to responsibly outsource processing
•Practical examples



27th February 2012
Introduction to Freedom of Information (half-day workshop)
Freedom of information opens up public data to scrutiny by anyone, anywhere. It applies retrospectively so a request can unearth information that is useful, coherent, embarrassing or incorrect. The act applies both to public bodies and, increasingly, to private organisations when carrying out work on behalf of a public body. Many organisations have been publicly reprimanded by the Information Commissioner for failing to respond in time or provide all the relevant information.

Course highlights:
•What is an information request? 
•How to respond and who gets involved
•How to apply the exemptions
•How is the law being interpreted in England and Wales?
•What should you have set in place beforehand?
•How to reduce the burden of answering requests by publishing information


29th February 2012
Copyright Essentials

In today’s complex digital environment, a good working knowledge about copyright is essential for all those working with information and content. This course provides an introduction to the principles of copyright law and practice. It is suitable for librarians and information professionals with very little knowledge about copyright or for those who wish to refresh their skills.

Course highlights (Please note: The emphasis will be on UK Copyright Law.):
• Overview of current copyright legislation and proposed changes following the Hargreaves Review of IP
• Who owns what, how and for how long?
• Library Privilege and the Copyright Exceptions
• Introduction to the CLA, ERA, PRS and NLA Licences


ASLIB Members recieve 20% discount.


Download a copy of the ASLIB Training Directory - http://www.aslib.com/training/index.htm

To book a place or for further information about any aspect of the ASLIB training visit www.aslib.com/training or contact:

Diane Heath Publications and Training Manager 
ASLIB 
Howard House 
Wagon Lane 
Bingley 
BD16 1WA

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Tel: +44 (0) 1274 785090 
Web: www.aslib.com/training