Dear All,

 

MLA London are running three training events in June that are open to everyone working in Museums, Libraries, or Archives.  If you are interested in attending any of the events below please contact Kat Birch on 020 7549 1712 or alternatively email [log in to unmask].  The three events are:

 

Preservation for Access: Managing Paper Based Collections

Volunteers: Developing your Volunteer Policy

Audiences: Introduction to Monitoring and Evaluating Audiences

 

During July and August there will be no more MLA London Workforce Development Training events and our programme of training will start again in September.  If you would to receive a copy of post summer programme please contact Kat Birch, leaving your contact details.  The programme will be available in electronic copy (Adobe PDF) and as a hard copy.  Please indicate whether you would prefer an electronic or hard copy, or both.  We hope that organisations will be able to distribute hard copies to their members of staff and volunteers. Alternatively, you can also check our website for training and events by visiting www.mlalondon.org.uk, or clicking here.

 

If you have queries, or ideas for future training, please do not hesitate to contact me via email at [log in to unmask].

 

Kind Regards

 

Paddy McNulty

Workforce Development Co-ordinator

 

Preservation for Access: Managing Paper Based Collections

Tuesday 12^th June 2007

The British Library, Euston Road, London

9.30am to 4.30pm

 

Do you have paper based collections within your organisation? Want to know more about managing care and access to paper based collections in a museum, library, or archive environment?  Then this one day workshop is for you.

 

This one day event has been organised for MLA London by the National Preservation Office and brings together some of the country’s leading experts on the care and management of paper based collections in our museums, libraries, and archives.

 

Speakers will consider the development of preservation policy and strategy, current developments and best practice in environmental monitoring, wider conservation issues for paper based collections in archives and museums, packing and moving book and paper collections, and briefing.  The day will end with a general ‘preservation clinic’ where participants are invited to bring issues from their collections for advice from the expert panel.

 

By the end of the day participants will:

 

·        Understand the basics of developing a collection wide preservation strategy and prioritising a collection’s conservation needs

·        Understand current best practice in environmental monitoring and control

·        Be confident to plan a collection move

·        Be confident to brief, commission, manage, and work with specialist conservators

·        Have had the opportunity to discuss specific preservation issues and problems with an expert panel.

 

Speakers: Alison Walker (National Preservation Office), Jonathan Rhys-Lewis (Preservation and Collections Management Consultant), Caroline Bendix (Library conservator and trainer)

 

A light lunch will be provided.

 

To book a place on this course you may download a booking form from our website www.mlalondon.org.uk.  Or request a booking form by contact the Kat Birch on 020 7549 1712, or emailing [log in to unmask]

 

 

Volunteers: Developing your Volunteers Policy

Wednesday 13th June 2007

Westminster Archive, St. Ann’s Street, London SW1P 2DE

9.30am to 1.00pm

 

This event is for anyone working with or managing volunteers in a museum, library, or archive

 

Do you have volunteers but no volunteer policy?  Do wonder what to include in your volunteer policy?  Or do you feel your policy needs updating?  The third workshop for organisations working with volunteers aims to help participants develop and / or review their volunteer policy.

 

Maggie Piazza, from Volunteering England, will deliver this seminar.  It will include presentations, group discussions and exercises, action planning for the future, and case studies from MLA sector organisations, and from participants own experiences.

 

By the end of the session you will be able to:

 

·        Explain the value of having a volunteer policy

·        Clarify who the volunteer policy is for

·        Distinguish a volunteer policy from a volunteer handbook / manual, and recognise how they complement each other

·        Identify what should be included in a volunteer policy

·        Establish what style of writing is appropriate for your organisation

·        Identify how a volunteer policy should be developed and reviewed

 

To book a place on this course you may download a booking form from our website www.mlalondon.org.uk.  Or request a booking form by contact the Kat Birch on 020 7549 1712, or emailing [log in to unmask]

 

 

Audiences: An Introduction to Monitoring and Evaluation

Wednesday 27th June 2007

Swiss Cottage Library, 88 Avenue Road, London NW3 3HA

9.30am to 4.30pm

 

This course is aimed at anyone involved in, or interesting in improving their techniques of, monitoring and evaluating audiences within museum, libraries, or archives.

 

Monitoring and evaluating your audience is an essential part of any MLA organisations role.  It helps to inform organisations on how effectively they are communicating with their target audience, how diverse their audience is, and help organisation plan for the future and to respond to their audience and future audience needs.

 

This one day course, delivered by Audiences London will help participants to understand what monitoring and evaluating audiences can bring to their organisations, and look at the different methods that can used for audience monitoring and evaluation.

 

The day will cover:

 

·        Why collect information from your users and non-users?

·        Primary and secondary research, evaluation and consultation: a definition of terms and what sort of information you can collect with each method

·        Good practice in collection of information

·        Responding to the information collected

·        Commissioning research

·        Case studies from the MLA sector

 

Facilitators: Audiences London

 

A light lunch will be provided.

 

To book a place on this course you may download a booking form from our website www.mlalondon.org.uk.  Or request a booking form by contact the Kat Birch on 020 7549 1712, or emailing [log in to unmask]

 

 

 

Paddy McNulty

Workforce Development Co-ordinator

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Main line: 020 7549 1700

Fax: 020 7490 5225

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