June training courses…
Planning and delivering drop-in sessions
7 June 2011 (half-day, AM or PM)
Learn how to design and deliver effective drop-in sessions, on this NEW half-day course. Bring along your current training materials and session plans to work on throughout the day.
eSurvey methods
8 June 2011
Discover the tried and tested techniques used when developing an electronic survey. Learn about the questions to ask and the questions to avoid! Watch introductory video.
Influencing and persuading skills
8 June 2011
A thought-provoking course that introduces conversation techniques to increase your ability to spot opportunities for making a difference, gain authority and “sell” your ideas.
Using social networking and UGC websites
9 June 2011
A highly practical course looking at Web 2.0 technologies that library and information professionals can use to work effectively to promote themselves and their libraries. Watch introductory video.
Cataloguing and classification
14 – 15 June 2011
Cat and class is a central core function of any information service. This course introduces the basic components that constitute the bibliographic record.
Finding and using resources for specific types of research
16 June 2011
This course looks at information gateways to 7 key types of information enabling the researcher to quickly and efficiently find quality information on the internet. Watch introductory video.
eNewsletters: an introduction
22 June 2011
Learn how to construct professional, well-targeted e-newsletters to drive traffic to your website. Watch introductory video.
Getting started with RDA (Resource Description and Access)
23 June 2011
Gain an understanding of RDA in its own terms, not simply as a modification to AACR2 or an adjunct to MARC 21 and learn how it is a whole new approach to matters bibliographic.
Making database training interesting
Marketing planning for library and information units
28 June 2011
Gain an understanding of marketing planning and its application in library and information units. Use best practice and attention grabbing communications, clear objectives and winning integrated strategies to reach your target audience. Watch introductory video.
Developing your taxonomy: the next steps
29 June 2011
This highly interactive course concentrates on how to develop an existing taxonomy so that it is better adapted to organisational needs.

Building Effective Screencasts on the 10th of May 2011

Managing Digital Media Collections on 23rd May 2011

JISC Advance – Digital Media and Copyright Seminar on the 10th June 2011

Video Production 1: Lectures and Interviews 2-day course on the 13th June 2011 and 14th June 2011

Digitising Analogue Video on the 15th of June 2011

For details and booking instructions for all our courses please follow the link below to our training pages.

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UKeiG training events are not to be missed and fill up quickly – so please book early to avoid disappointment!

All about Google: regain control of search Course presenter: Karen Blakeman http://www.ukeig.org.uk/trainingevent/all-about-google-regain-control-search-karen-blakeman
Thursday, 31 March, 2011 -09:30 – 16:30
Netskills Training Suite, University of Newcastle

Mobile access to information resources
Course presenter: Martin White
http://www.ukeig.org.uk/trainingevent/mobile-access-information-resources-martin-white
Wednesday, 13 April, 2011 – 09:30 -16:30 CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Effectively influencing your Stakeholders : powerful techniques for marketing AND change management Course Presenters: Elisabeth Goodman and Shaida Dorabjee http://www.ukeig.org.uk/trainingevent/effectively-influencing-your-stakeholders-powerful-techniques-marketing-and-change-man
Wednesday, 18 May, 2011 – 09:30 -16:30
CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Getting to grips with developing and managing e-book collections: an introduction Course Presenters: Chris Armstrong and Ray Lonsdale http://www.ukeig.org.uk/trainingevent/getting-grips-developing-and-managing-e-book-collections-introduction-course-presenter
Wednesday, 25 May, 2011 – 09:30 -16:30
Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool, 1 Brownlow Street, Liverpool

Smarter content with the semantic web: Is your organisation ready?
UKeiG Annual Seminar and AGM
http://www.ukeig.org.uk/trainingevent/smarter-content-semantic-web-your-organisation-ready-ukeig-annual-seminar-and-agm
Wednesday, 15 June, 2011 – 09:30- 17:00
Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House/Piccadilly, W1J 0BA, London

Getting better at everything you do: optimizing the way you work Course presenter: Elisabeth Goodman http://www.ukeig.org.uk/trainingevent/getting-better-everything-you-do-optimizing-way-you-work-elisabeth-goodman
Tuesday, 28 June, 2011 -09:30 – 16:30
Aston Business School Conference Centre, Aston Triangle, Birmingham B4 7ET

The UK Digital Curation Centre http://www.dcc.ac.uk/ is running a series of inter-linked regional workshops as part of the DCC Roadshow, aimed at supporting institutional research data management planning and training.

The 2nd DCC Roadshow is being organised in partnership with the White Rose University Consortium http://www.whiterose.ac.uk/ and will take place 1-3 March 2011 in Sheffield. Running over 3 days, different workshops will provide advice and guidance tailored to a range of staff, including PVCs Research, University Librarians, Directors of IT/Computing Services, Repository Managers, Research Support Services and practising researchers.

Day 1) The Research Data Landscape (introduction with case studies), Day 2) The Research Data Challenge for Institutions (strategic policy and planning), Day 3) Data Curation 101 training course (practice and tools).

The Roadshow will be opened on Day 1 by Martin Lewis, Director of Library Services and University Librarian at the University of Sheffield. The venue is the University’s Halifax Conference Centre.

Find out more about the workshops at
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/data-management-roadshows/dcc-roadshow-sheffield

Each workshop can be booked individually. We encourage you to select the workshop/s which addresses your own particular data management requirements and then to pass this invitation on to other members of staff, colleagues, researchers etc so that they can do the same.

Registration for the workshops is free.

Please note that delegate numbers are limited and priority will be given to participants from HEIs in Yorkshire.

Register now at: – http://asp.artegis.com/dccroadshowmarch2011

E-books and E-content 2011

University College London, 11 May 2011, 10.00 to 17.00

The uptake of e-book readers has suddenly proliferated and 2010 has proved to be a milestone year for a consumer led boom in e-books and e-readers. Amazon reported that sales of Kindle editions of paperbacks have outstripped paperbacks in the US for the first time and the Apple iPad has also become ubiquitous for anyone wanting a general purpose notepad, leading to any number of imitations, many of which can serve as very effective reading devices. Moreover, all are coming with increasingly high levels of connectivity, moving them into the realms of general purpose computing. Whilst there are few figures that illustrate this growth, the sheer presence of these technologies on the street suggest that portable eBook readers have finally arrived.

What does that imply for publishers, libraries, and booksellers etc., all of whom are again being threatened by an emerging business model? E-books and E-content 2011 will return to its traditional theme of the e-book and explore these technologies, the associated services and the possible impact on the traditional businesses of publications and their exploitation. Should libraries start supplying e-books as downloads as some are? Should publishers seek out new formats and markets for publications? Where does it leave library suppliers? And what about academia, where every student may soon have an electronic notepad and fail to understand why their course material isn’t already in e-format.

Speakers will include Hannah Perrett, the Director of Digital Partnership Sales at Cambridge University Press, Martin Palmer from Essex County Library, Jude Norris from Dawson Books, Dr Sian Harris, the Editor of Research Information, and a speaker from the public library and industry e-book supply company Overdrive.

James Macfarlane of Easynet Solutions will cover the process of e-book production, standards and e-reader issues whilst Nicky Whitsed, Director of Libraries for the Open University will look at how they are using e-readers in an academic context and in particular she will talk about and demo the OU’s interactive e-books for iPad.

Thus the team of expert speakers will address these critical questions interspersed with open discussions on futures and industry impact. The meeting will be chaired by Nick Canty of UCL and who was most recently Publishing Director of the academic press of a major professional institution and John Akeroyd, Research Fellow at UCL.

As always the event will be of interest to all professions associated with the information and digital publishing sectors, including publishers, librarians and booksellers.

Registration fee: £110 per delegate

Registration form: click HERE to download the registration form.

Venue: The Gustave Tuck lecture theatre, with registration and reception in the South Cloisters. Both venues are in the Wilkins Building, Gower Street.
Map link: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/locations/ucl-maps/map2_low_res

For further information, please email infostudies-conferences@ucl.ac.uk

Thursday 7 April 2011
76 Portland Place, London W1B 1NT

Chair: Marco Castellan, European Business Development Manager, Publishers Communication Group

Speakers:
Rick Anderson, Associate Director for Scholarly Resources & Collections, University of Utah’s Marriott Library Richard Bennett, Vice President – Sales, North, West & Eastern Europe, Springer Adam Gardner, Sales Director, CABI Tommaso Giordano, Deputy Library Director, European University Institute, Florence Wilma Mossink, Legal Advisor, SURFfoundation/SURFdiensten, The Netherlands Hazel Woodward, Cranfield University Librarian and Director of Cranfield Press

This seminar will discuss and analyse the international library consortia landscape, focusing mostly on Europe and the USA. Both libraries and publishers will share their experiences, plans, expectations and strategies going forward.

The focus will be on how the consortia market is evolving, which ones are more or less affected by budget cuts, what strategies have they put in place to safeguard their collections (is it really the end of the “big deal”?).
Librarians and publishers will aim to give the audience some ideas on what has worked and what has not in the past and what needs to change. We will discuss how the recent recession has impacted both publishers and library consortia and what they feel they need to be doing about it, in light of the ongoing funding crisis. Also, this seminar should benefit smaller publishers and suggests possible strategies in order to get their content onto the consortia maps.

Who should attend: Sales and marketing professionals, from scholarly publishers of all sizes and types. Anyone responsible for, or with an interest in, sales of books, journals, databases or other content to the scholarly and academic library market. Publishing professionals who are already working with consortia or looking to break into the market; librarians or consortia staff and agents involved in consortia agreements.

PROGRAMME

0930 Registration
0950 Introduction from the Chair
1000 Overview of the library consortia landscape in Europe
Tommaso Giordano, Deputy Library Director, European University Institute, Florence
1045 The global economic crisis and its impact on consortia licenses: a
financial perspective
Hazel Woodward, Cranfield University Librarian and Director of Cranfield Press
1130 Tea/Coffee
1145 SURFdiensten and international cooperation: the case of Knowledge
Exchange
Wilma Mossink, Legal Advisor, legal advisor of SURFfoundation/SURFdiensten, The Netherlands
1230 The consortia landscape in the USA
Rick Anderson, Associate Director for Scholarly Resources & Collections, J.
Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
1315 Lunch
1400 The past, the present and the future: a commercial publisher’s
perspective on library consortia
Richard Bennett, Vice President – Sales, North, West & Eastern Europe, Springer
1445 The not-for-profit publisher and consortia negotiations
Adam Gardner, Publishing Sales Director, CABI
1530 Tea/Coffee
1545 Panel discussion: publishing collaborations and innovative
licensing models
(speakers are still TBC in this slot)
1700 Wine reception & close

Further information:
For further details and online booking, please see the http://www.alpsp.org/ngen_public/article.asp?aid=338531 website or contact me Lesley Ogg Senior Coordinator, Events & Information Systems Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers

http://www.alpsp.org/ngen….asp?aid=338531