CILIP Training & Development are pleased to announce our April training courses. Places are already filling up so request to hold a place today with our provisional bookings. Provisional bookings hold your place for 10 working days whilst you organise any paperwork - there is no financial commitment with a provisional booking.

Don't forget - CILIP members receive up to 40% discount on all CILIP training.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS FOR LIBRARY AND INFORMATION STAFF
1 & 2 APRIL 2009, NEWCASTLE
Ideal for those new to working in a library or information service or as a refresher, this two-day course covers the core skills needed from basic enquiry handling skills, to cataloguing and classification, to library management and promoting your service. A popular CILIP course that will book fast!

PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS
* Understanding your role
* Keeping order: controlled language indexing and thesaurus construction
* Library databases
* Dealing with difficult users

FULL DETAILS: http://www.cilip.org.uk/training/training/2009/libinfo/essentialskills.htm

CATALOGUING AND CLASSIFICATION
28 & 29 APRIL 2009, LONDON
"Cat & class" is a central function of any information service, underpinning the quality of the service to your users. This popular two-day CILIP course provides a basic introduction to the skills of information organisation, understanding the principles involved in AACR2, Dewey and MARC. 

PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS
* Overview of information organisation and descriptive cataloguing
* Classification and Dewey
* MARC and computerised bibliographic data
* Subject access using language
* Holding the data together - Authority structures
FULL DETAILS: http://www.cilip.org.uk/training/training/2009/catandclass/catandclass.htm

USING BLOGS, WIKIS AND RSS FEEDS
30 APRIL 2009, LONDON
A highly practical CILIP course that will see you creating a weblog, a wiki and learn how to use RSS feeds.  You will gain a good grounding in the field of Web 2.0, helping raise the profile of your services and enable you to deliver them differently. A popular course that will book fast!

PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS
* Web 2.0 in context
* Weblogs - exploration, searching and using
* Creating and using wikis and RSS
FULL DETAILS: http://www.cilip.org.uk/training/training/2009/ict/usingblogswikisandrssfeeds.htm

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SUBJECT HEADINGS
22 APRIL 2009, LONDON
Library of Congress subject headings (LCSH) are now the dominant form of language based subject access used in the MARC format.  Learn how to select and build simple and complex subject headings and understand the significance of pattern headings. This established one-day CILIP course will provide a background to the origin and evolution of the Library of Congress subject headings.

PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS
* How to select basic headings, navigating the subheadings
* Geographic headings and subheadings
* LCSH and MARC 21 Authority format
FULL DETAILS: http://www.cilip.org.uk/training/training/2009/catandclass/libraryofcongress.htm

You can browse our full selection of courses for April and the rest of 2009, online. See what we have in store: http://www.cilip.org.uk/trainingcourses
 
Don't forget, all CILIP members receive up to 40% discount on all CILIP Training courses.