The University Equality & Diversity Team have scheduled another year of Diversity related half-day workshops for managers and staff to implement the Diversity Learning and Development Strategy.

For managers (people with responsibility for other staff:

– Equality and Diversity for Managers 3 Dec, 21 Apr & 3 Jul
– Managing Dignity at Work 21 Oct, 6 Feb & 18Jun
– Managing Disability Awareness into Action

For staff:
– Equality and Diversity for Induction (new staff are
automatically invited every 2 months from 16 September)
– Equality and Diversity for staff (a mix of general E&D and Dignity at Work 12 Nov, 18 Mar & 17 Jun
– Disability Awareness into Action for staff

The Equality and Diversity Web site contains more details of the dates and booking arrangements. There is also a training planner to help people work out which workshop would be suitable for them

If you are interested in attending any of the above courses and your line manager agrees please contact Joan Hulme in the first instance.

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/diversity/training/index.html

Career Development Group North Eastern Division / Community Services Group Northern

Title: Effective Relationships: The way forward for Library and Information Professionals

Venue: City Library and Arts Centre, Fawcett Street, Sunderland

Map: http://www.sunderland.gov.uk/Pages/PDF/city_centre_map.pdf

Date: Wednesday 1st October 2008

Time: 1:00pm – 4:30pm (Lunch is provided)

Your ability to establish and build effective relationships is the key skill needed in order to become (almost) brilliant! This is more important than any other single factor.

This session will begin to introduce you to some techniques which will help you to enhance these abilities and handle a range of interpersonal situations with skill and confidence.

Techniques will include some basic assertiveness and the impact of positive behaviour, along with learning a little about the communication aspects of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP).

The session will be interactive, and will briefly look at:

How people behave
What makes you tick
How to avoid being manipulated by others Some techniques for influencing others

Cost: 20 Pounds (plus VAT) members of Career Development Group / Community Services Group; 25 Pounds (plus VAT) non-members or 3 places for 50 Pounds (plus VAT) members; 3 places 65 Pounds (plus VAT) non-members Limited free places are available for students or unwaged members, please contact the organiser

Booking Procedure:
Contact: Michelle Walker
Return the form below to: Michelle Walker, 27 Cherrytree Gardens, Low Fell, Gateshead, NE9 6TY.
E-mail: michelle.walker@unn.ac.uk

Friday 5th of September 1-5pm
Information Skills Room,
Murray Library, University of Sunderland.
Access Code: W

Just about everyone who uses the Internet starts (and ends) with Google.
But what’s not so well known is the ‘Deep Web’: the parts of the Web that even Google cannot reach.

The majority of the course is hands-on, with time to play and discover the very tip of the ‘Deep Web’/Web 2.0 iceberg.

The course will briefly investigate just what is meant by:
Web 2.0
Wikis, Blogs and RSS: interactive information management
From Friends Reunited to Facebook: social networking sites
Your virtual desktop: social bookmarks and file sharing; online calendars (delicious esnips)
Time to play: links to blogging software, RSS feeds, Wikis
The Deep Web – What is it? When did it start?
Deep web sites: interacting with the information
Timetables, entertainment listings and dynamic information
Bibliographic databases and library catalogues
Shopping sites – ebay, amazon and froogle
Multimedia (and the importance of metadata)

Paula Younger is a chartered librarian and qualified foreign languages teacher (though she managed to escape from schools) and now works for the NHS in Exeter. She has also worked for the Ministry of Defence and a small private publishing company.

Booking: To reserve a place, please contact Louise Gordon
(St Peters Library, Prospect Building, St Peters Campus, Sunderland
SR6 0DD)
Telephone (0191) 515 3391
Email: Louise.Gordon@sunderland.ac.uk.
Cheques made payable to ‘Career Development Group’.

£58.75 (inc VAT) for CDG members
£64.63 (inc VAT) for Non members
Career Development Group North Eastern are happy to be able to offer one free place for students and/or the unwaged.