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*Apologies for cross-posting* Cpd25 Events 2016: 08/04 - RFID, what next? 26/04 - The Changes to the Disabled Students' Allowance - what does it mean for students, universities and libraries? 10/05 - Marketing Yourself; Transferable Skills 11/05 - Engaging and Supporting Researchers 11/05 - Open Access and Repositories 18/05 & 19/05 - Moving into Management (2 day course) 25/05/2016 - Visit to the Feminist Library 01/06 - PQW Introduction to Developing a Service 01/06 - PQW Copyright for Higher Education Professionals 16/06 - "My model for business is The Beatles." - Your part in sustaining and creating a successful team 25/07 - Visit to the Tavistock and Portman Library http://www.cpd25.ac.uk/events/ RFID, what next? Having taken the plunge to implement RFID systems over the last two decades, RFID has moved on and libraries are now looking at how they can use this technology in a smarter way. Join Mick Fortune as he talks about the future of RFID technology, and other speakers from University libraries employing RFID. You will also have the chance to share your experiences and thoughts as part of the plenary session at the end of the afternoon. The Changes to the Disabled Students' Allowance - what does it mean for students, universities and libraries?* In this event, we discover the rationale behind these changes and how they will be implemented, from both a university's and a student's perspective Librarians will explain how they have created and fostered inclusive learning environments and there will be an interactive group discussion designed to encourage you to think about how you and your institution's library can support disabled students more. Please bring along ideas of you own or think about practice at your own institution, both good and bad. Engaging and Supporting Researchers:* This event will look at innovative practice in engaging researchers from the slightly different, but highly applicable, perspective of research focused libraries and museums. We will also provide a targeted networking opportunity for participants to ensure they gain the knowledge they need from the people who have it. Open Access and Repositories: * This event will look at development of open access and its business models, as new alternative to the traditional approach to managing publishing, along with a session on working with altmetrics and metrics in tracking the impact of research within your repository. Marketing Yourself; Transferable Skills: This course provides a great opportunity to think more about the life skills we have learnt and to consider how to use them to further career prospects and choices, whether we remain in our current organisation or move to a new organisation or a different sector. Aimed at staff from all areas and grades of library work, the course offers a new outlook for individuals to take forward when considering their professional aspirations. Moving into Management: Progressing into management is both exciting and daunting. Suddenly you are responsible for directing and managing your peer group. You may get less opportunity to focus on your specialism and now be expected to direct your attention toward helping others to get things done. How do you harness the power of a team? Motivate others and deal with challenges? This interesting and engaging two-day course will provide an insight as to what it means to be a manager. Visit to the Feminist Library: The Feminist Library is a large archive collection of Women's Liberation Movement literature, particularly second-wave materials dating from the late 1960s to the 1990s. It supports research, activist and community projects in this field. Introduction to Developing a Service: With a mixture of presentations, practical exercises and opportunities for questions and discussion this workshop aims to give participants an insight from a senior manager about the decisions they take to shape and change their service. The first part of the session will explore external factors that inform the strategic development of a library service in the HE sector. The second part will explore ways in which these external factors have influenced decision making by the senior management team in the library, including examples of initiatives which have been introduced to meet university strategic needs. Copyright for Higher Education Professionals: Using copyright material legally even for educational purposes can be complicated. Through a presentation and interactive scenario-based session, this session aims to break down the myths surrounding the use of copyright content for educational purposes and outline permitted uses of copyright material in relation to both the analogue and digital environments. Participants will also have the opportunity to pose questions on copyright issues in general and receive guidance on best practice and are encouraged to bring questions based on real life issues for discussion. "My model for business is The Beatles." - Your part in sustaining and creating a successful team Over the course of the day we will consider how teams respond to changes in priorities and environment. How, as team members, can we become proactive about change and utilise team strengths to ensure that we are ready to engage with future challenges? This will be a highly participative day with plenty of opportunities for networking - enabling attendees to share their experiences and best practice. This event is open to all, but would benefit in particular Senior Library Assistants, Information Services Supervisors, Library Assistants, Information Assistants (or their equivalent). Visit to the Tavistock and Portman Library: The Library is a national mental health resource specialising in the psychological therapies, including psychodynamic study of organisations, educational psychology and psychodynamic social work and has many external individual and corporate members from all over the country because of the specialist nature of the collections. Access to all of the key mental health electronic databases, over 15,000 e-journals and 5000 e-books is provided by the Library, who were also the first NHS library to develop an Open Access Repository - Staff Publications Online. *Participants who book both Engaging and Supporting Researchers, and Open Access and Repositories will receive a 20% discount on the total cost of both events. To make a booking for any of these events and visits please use our booking form<http://www.cpd25.ac.uk/online-booking-form/>, and we will be in touch to confirm your place. Please stay updated on upcoming events by visiting our website<http://www.cpd25.ac.uk/> or following us on Twitter<https://twitter.com/cpd25_M25>. Best regards, Melanie Gilbert cpd25 Events Administrator M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries * Room 653 * Senate House Library * Malet Street * London * WC1E 7HU * United Kingdom