MARCH 2007

These are the training courses taking place in March at Aslib’s Offices in 
London.  More details, can be found by following the links:

ENQUIRY HANDLING, Thursday 1st
(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
Fee: £230 plus VAT (Aslib Corporate Members)/ £287.50 plus VAT (non Members)

USING EXCEL SPREADSHEETS TO MANAGE A LIBRARY BUDGET, Friday 2nd (FULLY 
BOOKED)
New date added: 30th March (pm)
(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, upto-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 Durrant
Fee: £150 plus VAT (Aslib Corporate Members)/£187.50 plus VAT (non Members)

ELECTRONIC SERIALS MANAGEMENT, Tuesday 6th   - TWO SPACES  LEFT
(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
Fee: £260 plus VAT (Aslib Corporate Members)/£325 plus VAT (non Members)

BUSINESS INFORMATION, Wednesday 7th
(www.aslib.com/training/1/03.html)
Effective performance in meeting business information needs requires an 
understanding of the key concepts, jargon and institutions relating to this 
type of information and an awareness of the principal sources through which 
it can be retrieved. This course meets both needs and is directed at 
information professionals who have either not previously dealt with 
information in the business field or only limited experience of handling it. 
  Course Director: Chris Murphy
Fee: £260 plus VAT (Aslib Corporate Members)/£325 plus VAT (non Members)

BUILDING AND DEPLOYING A CORPORATE TAXONOMY, Thursday 8th
(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
Fee: £280 plus VAT (Aslib Corporate Members)/£350 plus VAT (non Members)

KNOWLEDGE ARCHITECTURE, Friday 9th
(www.aslib.com/training/3/03.html)
Information Architecture (IA) is evolving in some quarters into Knowledge 
Architecture (KA), a compound discipline addressing all the sources of 
organizational competence - explicit and tacit - within a single, holistic 
framework. In order to add the missing tacit dimension, an additional set of 
tools and techniques needs to be included in the Knowledge Architect's 
toolkit.  This interactive workshop blends presentation, discussion and 
practical exercises to consider the evolutionary stages involved in the 
transition from IA to KA and to examine the most important tools and 
techniques involved. It presents a number of case studies and invites 
delegates to discuss the implications for information professionals, 
information managers, information architects, knowledge managers and 
knowledge workers alike. Course Director: Bob Bater
Fee: £280 plus VAT (Aslib Corporate Members)/£350 plus VAT (non Members)

THE TEN STEP MARKETING TOOLKIT, Monday 12th
(www.aslib.com/training/2/07.html)
This focused one-day course gives delegates practice in the core aspects of 
marketing their information services internally or externally. It is a more 
focused and practical version of an earlier 2-3 day course. During the day 
attendees will work through 10 practical tools that will help them create 
value for their customers through applying effective marketing techniques 
such as needs identification, market segmentation, product planning and 
promotion. Delegates will have the opportunity to apply these techniques by 
working on a small marketing project related to their own work situation.  
Course Director: David Skyrme
Fee: £260 plus VAT (Aslib Corporate Members)/£325 plus VAT (non Members)

BASIC CATALOGUING AND INDEXING, Wednesday 14th
(www.aslib.com/training/4/02.html)
This course is aimed at people who need to organise a collection of 
information but who have little or no knowledge or experience of how to do 
it. The collection may include books, periodicals, photographs, videos, 
computer discs, Internet page references and other material. The course will 
show beginners how to create and maintain control over this material so that 
required items and information can be retrieved. The emphasis is on 
practical cataloguing and participants are invited to bring typical material 
from their collections to form a group of items that can be considered in 
the practical sessions. The final section of the course considers how 
computers can assist in cataloguing and indexing, with practical 
demonstrations. However, no prior computer experience is needed for this.   
Course Director: James Shearer
Fee: £230 plus VAT (Aslib Corporate Members)/£287.50 plus VAT (non Members)

DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT, Tuesday 20th
(www.aslib.com/training/4/28.html)
Most libraries and organisations working with information will create, 
store, manage and supply digital information. In order to make sure that 
these practices are compliant with the copyright legislation and also to 
ensure that these activities are carried out within a controlled 
environment, it is essential that they look towards solutions offered by 
ICT, such as Digital Rights Management. This one day workshop will provide 
an overview of the key areas, solutions and legal landscape relating to 
Digital Rights Management for library and information professionals set 
within an informal learning environment. Participants will be encouraged to 
work in groups in order to share ideas and discuss various issues.  Course 
Director: Naomi Korn
Fee: £280 plus VAT (Aslib Corporate Members)/£350 plus VAT (non Members)

BRITISH OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS, Wednesday 21st
(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?  If your organisation 
needs to keep abreast of developments in parliament and government, then 
this course is for you.  Course Director: Dr Chris Pond
Fee: £260 plus VAT (Aslib Corporate Members)/£325 plus VAT (non Members)

HEALTH AND MEDICAL INFORMATION, Thursday 22nd
(www.aslib.com/training/1/08.html)
Those attending the course will already have access to the Internet and will 
have a basic familiarity with its workings. The course emphasises the skills 
necessary to identify health and medical resources of value to participants 
in their work environment. Practical, interactive sessions occupy the major 
part of the course, allowing participants to sample a wide range of health 
and medical networked information resources and to develop flexible 
navigational skills and search strategies. A key theme of the day is to 
explore means by which the richness of the Internet can be harnessed to 
complement and enhance working practices.  Course Director: Betsy 
Anagnostelis
Fee: £260 plus VAT (Aslib Corporate Members)/£325 plus VAT (non Members)

UK LEGAL INFORMATION: AN OVERVIEW, Friday 23rd (am)
(www.aslib.com/training/1/12.html)
The course will cover UK legislation from inception through to repeal, 
looking at consultation papers, green and white papers, the progress of Acts 
through Parliament and onto their amendment and consolidation. The nature 
and role of Statutory Instruments as well as where to find them will be 
covered. UK case law will focus on the structure of the courts and the 
progress of a case, how they are reported and how to locate unreported 
judgments, the difference between a transcript, a law report and unreported 
cases and how they are cited, including neutral citations.  Course Director: 
Fiona Durrant
Fee: £150 plus VAT (Aslib Corporate Members)/£187.50 plus VAT (non Members)

EU LEGAL INFORMATION: AN OVERVIEW, Friday 23rd (pm)
(www.aslib.com/training/1/13.html)
The course will cover the full range of EU legislation ranging from Treaties 
to pre-legislative progress. It will include how to find out how a 
particular Directive has been implemented in any specific member state. For 
case law, it will take a look at the European Court of Justice, Court of 
First instance. Other related information will also be covered including 
merger decisions and tender notices.  Course Director: Fiona Durrant
Fee: £150 plus VAT (Aslib Corporate Members)/£187.50 plus VAT (non Members)

CATALOGUING PRACTICE, Tuesday 27th
(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
Fee: £260 plus VAT (Aslib Corporate Members)/£325 plus VAT (non Members)

CONSTRUCTING A THESAURUS, Wednesday 28th – Thursday 29th
(www.aslib.com/training/4/05.html)
Most text retrieval systems require the support of a structured and defined 
vocabulary to perform effectively. In-house systems often fall short of 
their potential performance, mostly because of an inadequate supporting term 
vocabulary. This course is excellent for those who need to develop an 
understanding of using language to construct a thesaurus. It is of 
particular value to database managers, librarians, information officers and 
system analysts operating and developing text retrieval systems outside the 
library environment. The two days will involve a mix of lectures, 
discussions and practical work.  Course Director: Dr David Bawden
Fee: £475 plus VAT (Aslib Corporate Members)/£595 plus VAT (non Members)

USING EXCEL SPREADSHEETS TO MANAGE A LIBRARY BUDGET, Friday 30th (pm)
(Please see earlier course on 2nd March)

All our courses are available as onsite 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 
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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]

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