Aslib has a couple of new courses taking place in May:
-	Copyright Policies, Dealing with Infringements and Risk Management, 1st 
May
-	Running an Effective Information Service with Limited Resources, 2nd May

Further details of these appear below.

These are the training courses taking place in May at Aslib’s Offices in 
London:

COPYRIGHT POLICIES, DEALING WITH INFRINGEMENTS AND RISK MANAGEMENT, 1st May  
  NEW
Copyright and licensing are important strategic issues for information 
professionals, the effective management of which can reduce the risks of 
copyright infringements and create more efficient working practices.  This 
workshop will develop a toolkit for dealing with infringements of copyright, 
managing risk and developing suitable policies and procedures. Participants 
will consider staff and user expectations, planning requirements, 
restrictions and how to create an environment where copyright is handled 
appropriately. The afternoon will build upon the areas covered in the 
morning by facilitating the development of an institutional copyright policy 
covering both the internal management of rights as well as copyright and 
licensing compliance for the use of third party materials held by the 
institution. The session will be concluded with an examination of how 
copyright policies can be successfully implemented and enforced.
Workshop Director: Naomi Korn
Fee: £280 plus VAT (£329) Aslib corporate members / £350 plus VAT (£411.25) 
Non members
Further details: www.aslib.com/training/4/29.html

RUNNING AN EFFECTIVE INFORMATION SERVICE WITH LIMITED RESOURCES, 2nd May NEW
Aimed at people who may be new to information work, or who may have been 
left to cope with running an information service on their own, this course 
is designed to give you lots of ideas for hitting the ground running. It 
will help you discover the information needs of the organisation you are 
serving, identify the information resources that will help meet those needs, 
and decide how to provide services that get your information unit noticed 
and valued.
Course Director: Tim Buckley Owen
Fee: £230 plus VAT (£270.25) Aslib corporate members /£287.50 plus VAT 
(£337.81) Non members
Further details: www.aslib.com/training/4/12.html

STATISTICS FOR BUSINESS, 3rd May
Statistical data is a vital aid to decision making in business. Statistics 
are important to provide information on existing and potential markets, 
measure industry performance and indicate social and economic trends. This 
course is intended for those who want to gain a better understanding of 
statistical data, key concepts and available sources. It will be of interest 
to all information professionals whose work involves the use of statistics.
Course Director: Chris Murphy
Fee: £260 plus VAT (£305.50) Aslib corporate members / £325 plus VAT 
(£381.88) Non members
Further details: www.aslib.com/training/1/11.html

METADATA: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE, 15th May
Metadata is one of the most important, but least understood, aspects of the 
modern information environment. This course demystifies the concept of 
metadata, and shows how and why it is used, in a variety of environments. A 
variety of commonly-used metadata formats will be demonstrated for example 
Dublin Core, and AACR/MARC - and the way in which metadata creation relates 
to the 'traditional' library/information tasks of indexing and cataloguing 
will be outlined. Library/information workers are often called to create 
metadata records; they may also be asked to evaluate, choose or create 
metadata formats for their organisation's information. This course deals 
with both these topics, in principle and in practice.
Course Director: Dr David Bawden
Fee: £260 plus VAT (£305.50) Aslib corporate members / £325 plus VAT 
(£381.88) Non members
Further information: www.aslib.com/training/4/21.html

ORGANISING DIGITAL INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE, 17th May
Organising information and knowledge for effective retrieval is of ever more 
importance, with the increasing importance of digital information - 
especially the Internet and intranets - and of knowledge management. This 
course gives an overview of the most important tools for information 
organisation, focusing on metadata formats, and on subject description 
tools, especially taxonomies and thesauri. Examples are demonstrated from a 
variety of digital environments, and participants have the chance to design, 
in outline, a information organisation tool for their own situation.
Course Director: Dr David Bawden
Fee: £260 plus VAT (£305.50) Aslib corporate members /£325 plus VAT 
(£381.88) Non members
Further information: www.aslib.com/training/4/22.html

KNOWLEDGE ARCHITECTURE: An Exploratory Workshop, 22nd May
Information Architecture (IA) has established itself in recent years as a 
portfolio of practices combining aspects of web design, usability, metadata 
management and information science with a view to creating information 
systems which people find both useful and usable. Yet, IA conventionally 
addresses only one component of organizational competence - explicit 
knowledge (information). Although information must be managed effectively, 
in the knowledge economy this is not sufficient on its own, leaving out of 
account as it does, that other vital component of organizational competence 
tacit knowledge.  IA however, 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.
Workshop Director: Bob Bater
Fee: £280 plus VAT (£329) Aslib corporate members / £350 plus VAT (£411.25) 
Non members
Further information: www.aslib.com/training/3/03.html

UNDERSTANDING AND ASSESSING INFORMATION NEEDS, 23rd May
Understanding the information needs of users - individuals and groups - is 
an absolute necessity of an information worker, or information service, is 
to be effective. This course gives both a thorough understanding of the 
concepts, and practical skills for understanding and assessing information, 
from the immediate needs of a single user needing information (the 
'reference interview') to the all-encompassing information needs of a whole 
organisation (part of an information management audit).
Course Director: Dr David Bawden
Fee: £280 plus VAT (£329) Aslib corporate members / £350 plus VAT (£411.25) 
Non members
Further information: www.aslib.com/training/4/24.html

PROJECT MANAGEMENT, 24th May
Projects are a fact of life in library and information environments. Whether 
they are big projects (such as implementing IT systems, setting up a 
website, conducting a customer survey) or on a smaller scale, (such as 
introducing a newsletter) all projects represent a steep learning curve for 
busy managers. The ultimate success of any project depends on vision, 
effective communication skills and good planning. By using tried and tested 
methods and techniques a project can be successfully completed without 
disrupting normal service routines.
Course Director: Nicola Wise
Fee: £230 plus VAT(£270.25) Aslib corporate members/£287.50 plus 
VAT(£337.81) Non members
Further information:  www.aslib.com/training/2/10.html

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 
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Nicole Adamides, ASLIB Training
The Holywell Centre, 1 Phipp Street, London, EC2A 4PS
Tel: 020 7613 3031	Fax: 020 7613 5080
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