In this update, I have included the following information: - November and December courses - Aslib’s 30th Translating and the Computer Conference Don’t forget, if your organisation books any 5 courses during the year, you can get a 6th one-day course free of charge. All our courses are available as onsite events. 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. COURSES: NOVEMBER 2008 USING EXCEL SPREADSHEETS TO MANAGE A LIBRARY BUDGET, Friday 7 (pm), £150+VAT(£187.50+VAT) http://www.aslib.com/training/2/16.html 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. Course Director: Fiona Fogden CATALOGUING PRACTICE, Wednesday 12, £260+VAT (£325+VAT) http://www.aslib.com/training/4/03.html If you have experience of cataloguing or database compilation but need guidance or practice using AACR2 and MARC (including MARC21), or want to refresh knowledge gained some time ago, this course will give you the skills needed, including some practice in using online public access catalogues (OPACs) and thinking about their design criteria. Participants are invited to bring typical material from their collections to form a group of items that can be considered in the practical sessions. This course is not aimed at complete beginners; they would benefit by taking Aslib's companion course "Basic Cataloguing and Indexing" prior to this course. Course Director: James Shearer BRITISH OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS, Monday 17, £260+VAT (£325+VAT) http://www.aslib.com/training/1/02.html What exactly is a white paper? How is draft legislation examined and passed into law? What are statutory instruments and how are they examined? What is the difference between parliament and government? To find out the answers, come to Aslib’s course. Course Director: Chris Pond BUILDING AND DEPLOYING A CORPORATE TAXONOMY, Tuesday 18, £280+VAT (£350+VAT) http://www.aslib.com/training/4/06.html A Corporate Taxonomy is the backbone of an organization’s information architecture. Whether the focus is on records management, document management or knowledge management, a Corporate Taxonomy is key to effective storage and retrieval. A Corporate Taxonomy is different from a subject taxonomy in that it is a taxonomy of business activities. Corporate Taxonomies are therefore specific to an organisation and have to be custom-built. This interactive workshop uses a blend of presentation, discussion and practical exercises to explain the purposes of a Corporate Taxonomy and to introduce delegates to technologies, techniques and tools for building and deploying them. Course Director: Bob Bater INDEXING: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE, Wednesday 19, £260+VAT (£325+VAT) http://www.aslib.com/training/4/16.html 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. Course Director: Professor David Bawden IMPLEMENTING KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT INITIATIVES, Thursday 20, £280+VAT (£350+VAT) FULL http://www.aslib.com/training/3/02.html 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. Course Directors: Bob Bater and Graham Robertson ENQUIRY HANDLING – Find an Answer Every Time, Monday 24, £230+VAT(£287.50+VAT) http://www.aslib.com/training/4/11.html 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. Course Director: Tim Buckley Owen ELECTRONIC SERIALS MANAGEMENT, Tuesday 25, £260+VAT(£325+VAT) http://www.aslib.com/training/4/10.html 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. Course Director: Caroline Moss Gibbons DECEMBER 2008 Information Architecture, Monday 1, £260+VAT(£325+VAT) Knowledge Management: An Introduction, Wednesday 3, £260+VAT(£325+VAT) Developing Your Management and Leadership Skills, Friday 5, £260+VAT(£325+VAT) Web 2.0: An Overview, Tuesday 9, £260+VAT(£325+VAT) Copyright for Information Providers: An Introduction, Wednesday 10, £230+VAT(£287.50+VAT) Copyright for Information Providers: Advanced, Thursday 11, £280+VAT(£350+VAT) Copyright for Information Providers: Advanced, Friday 12, £280+VAT(£350+VAT) How to Design Training Sessions, Tuesday 16, £230+VAT(£287.50+VAT) CONFERENCE Aslib’s Translating and the Computer 30, 27-28 November 2008, London (www.aslib.com/conferences) The conference is now in its 30th year! Come and join us at the Holiday Inn Camden Lock to celebrate this anniversary with an exciting programme of papers and panels. Speakers include those from the following organisations: The European Court of Auditors, Imperial College, TransForm, National Research Council of Canada, Saarland University, ANLOC, Palex Languages and Software as well as many others. Full details, including the programme, can be found at www.aslib.com/conferences. IN-COMPANY TRAINING SERVICE All our courses are available as onsite/in-company events. Organisations that need to train 6 or more staff in the same subject will save on course fees by having the course onsite. Please contact me if you would like a quote. If you have any enquiries about these or future events, please email me at [log in to unmask] Kind regards, Nicole Adamides, ASLIB Training The Holywell Centre, 1 Phipp Street, London, EC2A 4PS Tel: 020 7613 3031 Fax: 020 7613 5080 www.aslib.com/training Email: [log in to unmask] _________________________________________________________________ See the most popular videos on the web http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/115454061/direct/01/