ALISS One Day Summer Conference
Social Media, Libraries, Librarians and Research Support Lanchester Library, Coventry University http://www.coventry.ac.uk/Library/help/Pages/Directions.aspx
20th July 2011
10.30-4.30 (first speaker 11.00)
Cost: 75.00 Aliss Members. 95.00 Non-members
Provisional bookings can also be made.

On 20th July ALISS (Association of Librarians and Information Professionals in the Social Sciences) will be holding a one day conference on innovations in using social media. It will include presentations and practical tips from practitioners considering how Web 2.0 can be used by library and information professionals to promote their services, and support teaching and research needs. The day will include the opportunity to try out some of the recommended resources with hands-on practice.
Speakers will include:
Miggie Pickton who will discuss the development and use of Web tools for researchers’ guide at the University of Northampton http://www.northampton.ac.uk/download/2311/web-tools-for-researchers.)
Jerry Jenkins from the British Library who will speak about the use of social media (twitter, Blogs) by curators at the British Library
Sarah Oxford from the University of Worcester who will focus upon how social media (Ning, Delicious and Netvibes) can be used to liaise effectively with academic staff.
Paula Anne Beasley and Linda Norbury from the University of Birmingham who will speak about their experiences in advocating social networking to academic staff http://uollibraryblog.wordpress.com/2010/05/17/ustlg-spring-meeting-redux-afternoon/
Alison Wootton (Accessibility and Inclusion Advisor) JIISC RSC West Midlands will introduce My Study bar http://rscstaffdev.blogspot.com/2010/04/my-study-bar.html a comprehensive set of portable open source and freeware applications to support learners with literacy difficulties.

Would you like try to do something different regarding your continuing professional development?

23 Things is a free online self-directed course aimed at introducing a range of tools that could help your personal and professional development as a librarian or information professional. It is running from 22nd June until the end of October 2011. Each week, The CPD23 team will write about one or more tool from a list of 23 things and invite you to try it out and/or reflect on how it could help your professional development. Some of the tasks will be practical Things for you to try out straight away, and some of them will be less immediate: ideas to try in the future, or things you can start working towards now and realise in due course or when opportunity arises!

More details and how to register are at http://cpd23.blogspot.com/

If you decide to give this course a go EO would be interested to hear how you get on.

http://cpd23.blogspot.com/