ASLIB Training Services
November 2011- February 2012 Training courses on Business and Official Information Sources, Cataloguing and Classification, Copyright and Intellectual Property, General Management and Communication Skills and Library and Information Management Skills.
ASLIB provides training and development for busy information professionals in key aspects
of information work. We offer public courses and workshops, as well as on-site and distance
programmes.
11th November 2011
Business Information
In brief
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 sources
through which it can be retrieved. This course is directed at information professionals with no or limited
experience of dealing with information in the business field.
Course highlights:
• The business environment
• Company financial statements and other types of company reporting
• Product and market information
• Official sources of business information
• Understanding and using business statistics
On completing the course you will be able to:
• Be fluent in specialized jargon
• Understand the contextual background of business research
• Undertake efficient research
18th November 2011
Copyright for Information Providers: Advanced
In brief
A basic understanding of copyright highlights just how complex an issue it is: knowing how the law
works is just the beginning. This course will give delegates a greater understanding of how to interpret
the law and how to put in place management systems that take account of the rapidly changing
techniques used for information storage and delivery.
Course highlights:
• Copyright in an electronic context
• Copyright and software/the Web
• Trading in copyright materials
• The international dimension
• Copyright and career development
On completing the course you will be able to:
• Have a greater understanding of how to interpret the law
• Have a greater understanding of how to put in place management systems that take account of
rapidly changing techniques
25th November 2011
Business Plans: How to Produce a Workable and
Convincing Business Plan (half-day)
In brief
A well-conceived business plan is a powerful aid to achieving better results in the commercial world
and other fields of activity. This course will explain soundly-established principles for devising a plan
that works. It is for anyone bidding for resources from others, whether they hope to launch or expand
a business, or serve as a unit manager seeking to justify future allocation of resources.
Course highlights:
• Systematic reviews for businesses and organizations
• Ways to identify and exploit business opportunities
• Financial analysis, forecasting and budgeting for business plans
On completing the course you will be able to:
• Draw up business plans with increased competence
• Enhance the credibility and persuasiveness of business plans
• Incorporate ways of anticipating and dealing with circumstantial change
• Track and refine future business plans with greater ease and effectiveness
24th January 2012
Web 2.0 and Social Media for Communication: Personalities, Presence and Self-Promotion
This course is for anyone interested in use of web 2.0 and social media tools to promote services. Emphasis will be on ideas for those working in LIS, but the approach will be broad. The course goes beyond consideration of individual applications, to focus on a spectrum of techniques to develop a consistent, professional persona and engaging presence for promotional purposes.
Course highlights:
The programme will cover:
•Exemplary use of popular web 2.0 tools, including twitter, facebook, blogs, media-sharing apps, locator services and feed-readers
•How these tools can be combined to maximise digital presence
•Technicalities and social concerns of developing a social media presence and personality
•Dealing with issues of privacy and identity theft
31st January 2012
Organizing Digital Information and Knowledge
This one-day course covers all modern tools for organizing information, focusing on taxonomies and thesauri, and gives participants the chance to construct an outline organization of their own.
Course highlights:
The programme will cover:
•Overview of information organization
•Metadata
•Controlled vocabularies
•Ontologies
•Taxonomies
•Thesauri
•Knowledge organization on the Internet
•Knowledge organization for knowledge management
•Participants' own examples
7th February 2012
Metadata: Principles and Practice
This course provides a practical introduction to principles and practice of metadata, using as examples the most widely-used formats.
Course highlights:
The programme will cover:
•what is metadata?
•use and significance of metadata
•metadata formats; some important examples
•descriptive and subject metadata
•metadata creation, indexing and cataloguing
•creating and evaluating metadata formats
20th February 2012
Using Excel Spreadsheets to Manage a Library Budget (half-day workshop)
This half-day course is for library managers too busy to spend ages on budget management but for whom it is important to access vital, up-to-date information to work out where they are in the spending stakes. The aim is to demonstrate how, using common and more complex formulae, Excel spreadsheets can be used to manage library budgets.
Course highlights:
•The budget cycle.
•The different types of figures/terminology:
◦Requested budget
◦Given budget
◦Increase on previous year's spend
◦Actual spend
◦Savings
◦Overspend
◦Reforecast
◦Quotes vs. estimates
◦Recording receipt of invoice vs. actual payment
•A practical look at a spreadsheet example:
◦Percentage formulae
◦Recording monthly, periodic and annual payments
◦How to record subs with monthly invoices that don't fit in with your same financial year
◦Copying contents of cells to a summary sheet
◦Working out the rolling reforecast
◦How to work out what is overdue
◦How to record credits
20th February 2012
Negotiating Online Subscriptions (half-day)
Course highlights:
The programme will cover:
•Preparing for meetings.
•Practical clauses for letters reserving the right to cancel your subscription.
•What to look at in the contract.
•Clause terms, including take down clauses to mitigate the unknown
•Hints and tips for arguing your case.
•How to get the price down and/or negotiate more favourable terms.
•Strategies to keep costs down for future years.
•Discussion of own experiences and concerns.
27th February
Introduction to Data Protection (half-day workshop)
Management of personal data is governed in the UK by the Data Protection Act and related regulations. Contrary to many perceptions organisations can both effectively use information about individuals and comply with these principles. Failure can result in criminal or financial penalties and adverse publicity.
Course highlights:
•What is personal data
•Collection to destruction - the compliant information life cycle
•Meeting the rights of the individual
•Sharing information with other organisations or people
•How to responsibly outsource processing
•Practical examples
27th February 2012
Introduction to Freedom of Information (half-day workshop)
Freedom of information opens up public data to scrutiny by anyone, anywhere. It applies retrospectively so a request can unearth information that is useful, coherent, embarrassing or incorrect. The act applies both to public bodies and, increasingly, to private organisations when carrying out work on behalf of a public body. Many organisations have been publicly reprimanded by the Information Commissioner for failing to respond in time or provide all the relevant information.
Course highlights:
•What is an information request?
•How to respond and who gets involved
•How to apply the exemptions
•How is the law being interpreted in England and Wales?
•What should you have set in place beforehand?
•How to reduce the burden of answering requests by publishing information
ASLIB Members recieved 20% discount.
Download a copy of the ASLIB Training Directory - http://www.aslib.com/training/index.htm
To book a place or for further information about any aspect of the ASLIB training please contact:
Diane Heath Publications and Training Manager
ASLIB
Howard House
Wagon Lane
Bingley
BD16 1WA
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Tel: +44 (0) 1274 785090
Web: www.aslib.com/training
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