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/

Netskills Training Suite
University of Newcastle Thursday
31st March 2011, 9.30 – 16.30

Google is collecting more data and adding more services all the time. For many people it is the place to start a search but more information and more search features does not necessarily mean more relevant results. Furthermore, Google’s automatic personalisation and semantic search all too often adds to the confusion. This hands-on workshop will look at the latest developments in Google, how it works, and how you can focus your searches for better results.

Topics covered will include:
* new developments and services from Google
* how to narrow down your search for more relevant results
* how Google personalises your results – help or hindrance and can you stop it?
* Google and social media
* essential advanced search commands
* Google’s specialist tools and databases
* build your own Google Custom Search Engine

You will have ample opportunity to experiment and try out the techniques for yourself and Karen will be on hand to help and advise you. Exercises are provided to help you test out the search features but you are free to explore and try out searches of your own.

Who should attend
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 has worked in the information profession since 1978 and became a freelance consultant in 1989. She provides training and consultancy on social and collaborative web tools, and searching for and managing information resources. After graduating from Birmingham University with a degree in Biological Sciences she worked at the Colindale Central Public Health Laboratory.

To register your interest in this meeting, reserve a place, or request further details, please email meetings@ukeig.org.uk. Further details are also available via the UKeiG website at www.ukeig.org.uk.

Preservation Advisory Centre training day
23 November 2010, British Library Centre for Conservation, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB

This one day course is themed around the understanding the significance of bookbindings. Books are much more than the text they contain; their complex structures and methods of production have evolved over time. Recognising features of bindings and understanding the structure of the book can reveal significant bibliographic information. Participants will learn why bookbindings are important and the information they can reveal; how to recognise historic bindings; how to handle different types of binding structures and the use of appropriate protective enclosures; how to describe bindings; and conservation options for bookbindings.

Programme

10.00 Introductions and welcome
10.15 Binding types and structures, and their significance (David Pearson, Guildhall Library)
11.45 Break
12.00 Handling bindings: the use of supports and protective enclosures (Sarah Hamlyn, British Library)
12.45 Discussion and questions
13.00 Lunch
13.45 Describing bindings (Karen Limper-Hertz, British Library)
14.25 The conservation of bookbindings (Roswitha Ketzer, British Library)
15.25 Break
15.40 Tour of the Centre for Conservation 16.00 End

Cost 95 + VAT (including lunch and refreshments)

To register, please complete the form at www.bl.uk/blpac/bookbindings.html

The American Library Association (ALA) has just published a the following report:
‘Value of Academic Libraries: A Comprehensive Research Review and Report’.
You can download the report from http://www.acrl.ala.org/value/

http://www.acrl.ala.org/value/

You may have seen adverts for the CDG/PTEG conference in Newcastle on June 10th that is geared at middle and senior managers called “Raising the bar”. Details at www.cilip.org.uk/cdg They are looking to attract more delegates, so are offering some special offers. If anyone is interested please contact Elizabeth Oddy in first instance.