Monthly Archives: November 2008

Mobile Learning in Libraries

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And MmIT North West AGM
Liverpool, John Moores University, Tuesday 16th December 2008, 1.30 p.m. – 4.00 p.m.

Join Cilip Multimedia, Information and Technology Group, North West for their
2008 AGM event, “Mobile Learning in Libraries”, taking place at Liverpool John Moores University. The seminar will address some of the good practice and research going on in the use of mobile technologies within library and information services

The day will provide plenty of stimulating discussion and will be the perfect Christmas staff development afternoon for any librarians interested in mobile learning, mobile devices or library technology in general. There will be plenty of opportunity to network with colleagues from other institutions, and Christmas refreshments will be provided.

Programme

1.30 p.m.. Registration and refreshments

2.00 p.m.. Anthony Beal and Sean Herbert, West Cheshire College
Using handheld gadgets in Further Education libraries.

This case study will illustrate how the use of handheld video players, digital audio recorders, and digital cameras, etc have become embedded in the library services at West Cheshire College, as digital media has quickly become an integral part of the service.

2.30 p.m. Angela Robinson, Blackburn Public Libraries
Using games consoles for reader development

This presentation will focus on some recent reader development projects in which effective use has been made of mobile gaming technologies, including use a Nintendo Wii.

3.00 p.m.. Refreshments and MmIT NW AGM

3.30 p.m. Vicki Owen and Will Reid, Liverpool JMU
Support for Flexible, Blended and Technology Enhanced Learning

This presentation will report back on current research being undertaken into how libraries can best support developments in mobile learning in HE.

Seminar Location
Liverpool, John Moores University, Lecture Theatre, John Foster Building, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, L3 5UZ

This event is free, but you will need to book on for catering purposes.
Please email or phone Karen Myatt to book onto the seminar:

Karen Myatt, Reaseheath College, Nantwich, Cheshire 01270 613291 karenm@reaseheath.ac.uk

Weeding Library Collections – Problem or Solution?.

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This is a half day event organised by the University, College and Research Group (UCRG) Northern Section of CILIP.

Date and venue: Thursday 4th December 2008, 1.30-4.30pm at the Robinson Library, Newcastle University.

Is your library suffering from overcrowded shelves? How do you balance meeting the needs of your users whilst still having to weed your collections?
Is the UKRR (UK Research Reserve) project of interest to you?

This event will study the options currently available to libraries for weeding material and may interest libraries wanting to initiate a disposal policy. Jean Crawford (Project Manager of Phase 1 UKRR Project) will discuss the UKRR Project (http://www.cocoman.ac.uk/AltProjectdetails.aspx?id=28) as a future collaborative option for deselected journal material. Sally Curry from the Research Information Network will give the research library perspective whilst Hannah Smith from Better World Books will demonstrate how they can provide a greener option to libraries disposing of withdrawn monograph material. Time will also be allocated for dicussion of the topics raised.

Venue: Room 152, The Robinson Library, Newcastle University, Newcastle- upon-Tyne (5 minutes walk from Haymarket Metro, 15 minutes walk from Newcastle Central Railway Station).
Map: www.ncl.ac.uk/travel/maps
Access: There is good disabled access to the library and the meeting room.

Cost: £25.00 for CILIP members, £30.00 for non-CILIP members (includes tea/coffee and VAT)

Bookings: To book a place please contact Suzie Kitchin and indicate if you are a CILIP member or non-member, email suzie.kitchin@durham.ac.uk or telephone 0191 3342975. Bookings must be made by 28th November. Please let Suzie know if you have any disability related access requirements.

Web 2.0 in real life – 21st April 2009

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Venue
Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool, 1 Brownlow Street, Liverpool, L69 3GL

Date
Tuesday, 21st April 2009, 09.30 to 16.30
Course Outline
Find out how 2.0 applications are being used in libraries and information centres, and what actually works. Blogs, wikis, RSS? YouTube, podcasts, Slideshare? Flickr, Connotea, LibraryThing? Facebook, Second Life, Twitter? This workshop will look at the reality of 2.0: what is useful and what is destined for Gartner’s ‘Trough of Disillusionment’, never to be seen again.

The workshop will start with a brief overview of Web 2.0 and what it means. It will then look in more detail at how “stuff” can be used as sources of information, as a means of enhancing services to users, and raising the profile of information services. The areas covered will include:

Blogs, wikis, RSS feeds
Shared authoring tools
Start pages e.g. iGoogle, PageFlakes, NetVibes
Social bookmarking services
Using YouTube and Flickr as information resources and to promote your group or organisation
“Presentation” sites such as Slideshare and Authorstream
Social networking sites e.g. Facebook
To Twitter or not to Twitter
There will be a heavy practical element to the workshop so that participants can explore Web 2 and try out the technologies for themselves. There will be extensive notes and exercise sheets to guide participants through the day, and all the information and presentations will be available electronically.
Who should attend
This workshop is suitable for all levels of experience nd who want to discover how web 2.0 technologies are being used in day to day business. The techniques and approaches covered can be applied to all subject areas.

Course Presenter: Karen Blakeman
Karen Blakeman has worked in the information profession for over twenty years and has been a freelance consultant since 1989. Her company (RBA Information Services) provides training and consultancy on the use of the Internet, and on accessing and managing information resources. Karen writes for “Business Information Searcher”. She also publishes a monthly, electronic newsletter called “Tales from the Terminal Room”. Her publications include “Search Strategies for the Internet”. She was recently made an Honorary Fellow of CILIP and in 2002 she received the Information World Review Information Professional of the Year award

Costs (including lunch and refreshments)
UKeiG members £160 + VAT (£188.00); others £190 + VAT (£223.25)

Further details available at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2009/April/Web2InRealLife.html

http://www.ukeig.org.uk/t…InRealLife.html

Searching the Internet: Google and Beyond – 1st April

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Some comments from delegates attending this meeting in 2008:

” Fascinating insight into the world beyond Google ” “One of the best workshops I’ve ever attended” .. “A revelation! – enjoyed every minute”

Venue
The John Rylands University Library, University of Manchester

Date
Wednesday, 1st April 2009, 9.30 – 16.30

Course Outline
With the major search engines claiming coverage of over 20 billion web pages in their databases, it is becoming increasingly difficult to locate relevant information. Most of us head straight for Google when we want to search the Internet but Google is not the only search tool.

Further details are available at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2009/April/GoogleandBeyondManchester200904.html

This workshop looks at recent developments at Google and the alternatives, especially the new kids on the block and Web 2.0 ‘stuff’. Karen Blakeman will take you through the best of the search engine world and highlight how they can be used to significantly improve your results.

By the end of the day, participants will have a vital toolkit to help them search more effectively, including key search tools, comparisons, top tips and essential search techniques.

Topics to be covered include:

different types of search tools and how they work
making the most of Google and new features
alternatives to Google
advanced search techniques to help you track down the so-called “hidden web”
image, audio, video and news
blogs, RSS, wikis and Web 2.0 resources
setting up your customised search engine
tracking down pages that have disappeared
Participants will have ample opportunity to test out advanced search techniques and to compare different search engines. A significant part of the day will be taken up with practical sessions; exercises will be provided but delegates are free to try out searches of their own. This workshop is suitable for all levels of experience. The techniques and approaches covered can be applied to all subject areas.

Course Presenter: Karen Blakeman
Karen Blakeman has worked in the information profession for over twenty years and has been a freelance consultant since 1989. Her company (RBA Information Services) provides training and consultancy on the use of the Internet, and on accessing and managing information resources. Karen writes for “Business Information Searcher”. She also publishes a monthly, electronic newsletter called “Tales from the Terminal Room”. Her publications include “Search Strategies for the Internet”, now in its sixth edition. She was recently made an Honorary Fellow of CILIP and in 2002 she received the Information World Review Information Professional of the Year award.

Costs (including lunch and refreshments)
UKeiG members £160 + VAT (£188.00) ; others £190 + VAT (£223.25)

http://www.ukeig.org.uk/t…ster200904.html

Essential Copyright for Information Professionals

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Essential Copyright for Information Professionals: What You Need to Know – and Preparing for Change!

Venue and date
CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE. Tuesday, 17th March 2009, 9.30-16.15

Costs (including lunch and refreshments):
UKeiG members £140 + VAT (£ 164.50); others £170 + VAT (£ 199.75)

Course Outline
Copyright remains one of the most challenging legal issues for information professionals in all areas of the information industries. This one-day introductory course will chart a path through the complexity of the subject. It will cover all essential aspects of copyright and associated rights. Delegates will be taken step-by-step through the fundamentals of copyright. Woven into the sessions will be the latest information on forthcoming changes to UK law on copyright and how you need to understand and prepare for them now . Understanding of each topic will be illuminated by real-life examples of copyright issues. Examples will be drawn from a wide range of contexts.

The sessions will include:

Copyright – what is it, how does it arise and how long does it last?
Ownership of copyright
Categories of copyright works
The rights of the copyright owner
Permitted acts and exceptions to copyright
Database right
Moral rights
Licensing schemes for education, commercial and business organisations
Overview of copyright in the digital environment
The Gowers Review – Planning for Change: a special, dedicated session on how the likely reforms to UK law currently under implementation from the Gowers Review will affect you, and how will you benefit. What do you need to be doing now?
The course will be led by presentations but will include real-life problems and scenarios for discussion, and plenty of opportunity for questions and answers.

Presenter
Laurence Bebbington is Faculty Team Leader (Social Sciences, Law and Education) and Information Services Copyright Officer at the University of Nottingham . He has presented papers and led seminars on various aspects of legal issues in information work. He has published various articles and papers and is a joint editor (with C.J. Armstrong) and contributor to the 2 nd edition of Staying Legal: A Guide To Issues And Practice Affecting the Library, Information and Publishing Sectors , FACET (2003)

Further details are available at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2009/March/EssentialCopyright2009-03-17.html

Personal Development Planning – 18th November

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Building personal confidence for professional success
Edinburgh Training Centre 18th November 10am-4pm £90 CILIP members; £120 institutional members; £150 non-members

Self confidence, self-knowledge and interpersonal skills are key desirables for employers and play an enormous role in individual career success.

The good news is that self confidence is a skill which can be learned and enhanced with practice.

Come along to our CILIPS informal seminar and learn more about the tools, tips and skills which can help broaden opportunities and move your career forward.

Further information and booking available at www.slainte.org.uk (events section)

Marketing, The Art of

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10th November, The Sage Gateshead

Standard delegate fee: £85.00 plus VAT
CIM Members, discounted fee: £70.00 plus VAT

Learn how to make the most of your marketing budget at Business Link’s must attend marketing event, Marketing: The Art Of. An all-day event, Marketing: The Art Of will provide a well-rounded, value for money experience for delegates, with some of the best industry insider tips being shared as well as food for thought on future marketing strategies.

Publicist Max Clifford and Mark Palmer, Global Brand Director at Green and Blacks organic chocolate, are both keynote speakers at the event, so it’s the ideal opportunity to learn from some of today’s very best marketing practitioners. Showcasing modern marketing practice and providing all the tools to enable theory to be put into practice, the event will act as a forum to share knowledge and best practice. Using a mix of workshops, presentations, panel discussions and debates, it will engage, inform and entertain.

In the current economic climate, injecting new direction and creativity into marketing plans is essential to staying one step ahead of the competition. And, to plan for the anticipated economic downturn, workshops such as Marketing on a Shoestring and How to Develop a Marketing Plan are guaranteed to be popular on the day.

Plus, with experience from regional, national and global marketers being shared, practitioners at all stages of their career are sure to take something from the event away with them.

To book your place, or for further information about Marketing: The Art Of, please visit: www.marketingtheartof.com or contact Emma Fagan on (0191) 241 4523 or email emma@marketingtheartof.com

Introduction to Quantitative Methods

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1 December 2008, Newcastle University

Improve your understanding and use of data and statistics in your everyday work – this one day training course will consist of an equal balance of theory, examples and practical application. Content will include:

– The interpretation of commonly used statistical measures.

– Drawing conclusions from data to aid decision making.

– The use of data for target setting and monitoring.

– Collecting and describing data

– Data types and descriptive statistics

– Sampling strategies (includes practical)

– Drawing conclusions from data, target setting and monitoring

– Confidence intervals

– Presentation of data

– Index numbers and percentages

This course is targeted at those in the public sector who regularly use statistics in their work but who do not have a background in statistical analysis, as well as those who have such a background but would like to refresh their skills. The aim is to build confidence in using data in everyday work. The course will be at an introductory level. Course provider and facilitator – Industrial Statistics Research Unit – Newcastle University.

This will be held on Monday 1 December, at Newcastle University. The cost will not exceed £120 per delegate, the exact amount will be confirmed once numbers attending have been finalised. To register your interest in attending, please email info@nerip.com, with “Course” in the heading of your email.

Building personal confidence for professional success

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18th November 2008, Edinburgh

£90 CILIPS members

This is a new course to CILIPS and has been versioned for those working in library and information services. The course is broad based and will explore the core conditions that help to promote personal effectiveness in the workplace. Additionally, participants will have the opportunity to consider their own developmental needs. The course will use a range of stimulating materials and experiential approaches to engage participants.

Further information and booking: www.slainte.org.uk