Tuesday 5 March 2013, Central London

Confused about copyright? The BUFVC’s one-day course on copyright is essential for those needing to copy, use and provide access to existing third party content in their work, delivered by expert practitioners in the field.

Presented by Alma Hales, Head of Intellectual Property at the Open University and Bernadette Attwell, former Deputy Head of Intellectual Property at the Open University, this course includes up-to-date practical advice and guidance, with the opportunity to have specific rights-related queries answered.

Attendees will gain an understanding of:
– types of work which are protected
– rights ownership and licensing
– the status of copyright exceptions
– the meaning of ‘fair dealing’
– the process of rights clearance.

Attendees will also take away a free copy of the BUFVC’s latest copyright booklet – ‘Can I Copy This? A Brief Guide to UK Copyright in Higher and Further Education‘. It provides a focused and accessible guide to media and copyright in UK HE and FE.

For further information regarding BUFVC courses visit the BUFVC website: http://bufvc.ac.uk/courses

These times of change and uncertainty offer a good opportunity to think more about the life skills we have learnt and to consider how to use them to further career prospects and choices, whether we remain in our current organisation or move to a new organisation or a different sector.

Erica Sosna (Director of ‘The Life Project’, a life skills education provider), has developed this bespoke course to enable library staff to identify talents and explore their career opportunities in the light of these skills and talents.

Aimed at staff from all areas and grades of library work, the course offers a new outlook for individuals to take forward when considering their professional aspirations.

By the end of the day participants will have:

• Used lateral thinking to review their skills

• Explored how their interests and hobbies demonstrate a varied skill set

• Worked with each other to explore new opportunities to use these skills

• Developed a refreshed CV and a personal plan of action to move forward

Sessions include:

• A personalised skill set review process – to identify and name your transferable skills

• Creative career exploration techniques

• A specific and focussed goal and statement of intent

• Simple, effective project planning and action planning tools that can be used for both work and life

Venue: The Hardy Room at the London Mathematical Society, 57-58 Russell Square, London WC1B 4HS; Website: www.lms.ac.uk

Please note that there are limited places available for this event.

To book a place please use our online booking form or email the administrator via cpd25@lse.ac.uk

Cost: £130 for members and £195 for other institutions.

Online – Making WordPress work for you
25th February, Online,
An online workshop covering the practical skills needed to install, maintain and customise WordPress.

Exploring Digital Storytelling
28th February, Netskills Training Suite, Newcastle
Explore why stories are a powerful and effective way of communicating with an audience and how the technique can be used effectively for a wide range of purposes; learning, publicity and marketing, community engagement and more.

Online – An Introduction to Instructional Design
5th March, Online
Get to grips with the methodologies and practical applications of effective Instructional Design in this online workshop. You will learn how to use specific development tools, strategies and techniques to support the interactive process of Instructional Design.

e-Learning Essentials: BTEC Certificate
12th – 14th March, Netskills Training Suite, Newcastle
This intensive workshop teaches comprehensive techniques, methodologies and tools to enable you to confidently design, develop, assess and evaluate e-learning.

Online – Podcasting: A Practical Guide
19th March, Online
An online workshop providing a practical guide to the planning and production of effective podcasts that will engage listeners. Participants will have the opportunity to evaluate a range of podcasts, as well as record, edit and publish their own.

Designing Websites – Foundation for Success
20th March, Kings House, Manchester, Book Now: http://bit.ly/12pG221
Explore how the key principles of good web design, information architecture and usability, plus effective collaboration between technical and non-technical roles, combined to create successful websites.

Project management for the education sector
21st March, Kings House, Manchester, Book Now: http://bit.ly/UrRc0s
This workshop introduces a project management methodology that can be adapted for any size of project and is specifically tailored to the needs of the education sector. The day is interactive, providing a structured approach to project management and investigating a number of examples.

HTML5: Evolution or Revolution
27th March, George Square Edinburgh University, Book Now: http://bit.ly/ZqefQ3
A comprehensive introduction to the benefits, possibilities and practical implementation of HTML5.

Getting the most from your Google Analytics
28th March, George Square Edinburgh University, Book Now: http://bit.ly/WbIAxa
Everyone with a web site wants to keep track of how effective it is and who is viewing the content. This workshop explains how to get the most from the web’s most popular visitor analysis tool.

Early bird prices are still available for all workshops. For full details, visit our workshop programme page: http://bit.ly/V39fh9

February 27th : The future of copyright in the digital age, Elisabeth Goodhand and Charles Oppenheim, London (see above)
March 21st : Social media for organisations – the basics, Megan Roberts and Ned Potter
March 26th : Making Google behave, Karen Blakeman, Manchester
April 24th : Search usability, Tony Russell-Rose, Edinburgh
May 21st : Digital marketing toolkit, Ned Potter, Edinburgh
May 22nd : Collaborative working, Dion Lindsay, London
June 12th : Getting to grips with developing and managing e-book collections: an introduction, Chris Armstrong and Ray Lonsdale, London
June 19th : Getting better at everything you do: optimising the way you work, Elisabeth Goodman, London
June 27th : Anything but Google, Karen Blakeman, Newcastle
July 2nd : Digital workplaces, Martin White, London
July 4th : The future of copyright in the digital age, Elisabeth Goodhand and Charles Oppenheim, Manchester
July 16th : Social searching, Karen Blakeman, Bristol
September 10th : Change management and marketing, Shaida Dorabjee and Elisabeth Goodman, London
September 25th : Enterprise search, Martin White, London
October 22nd : Getting the best from virtual teams, Martin White, London
October 30th : Making Google behave, Karen Blakeman, London
November 19th : Anything but Google, Karen Blakeman, London
November 20th : Search usability: filters and facets, Tony Russell-Rose, York

Watch out for further details as we move into 2013.

Trainers: Emily Goodhand and Professor Charles Oppenheim
When: 27th February 2013
Venue: London

Course Outline:
This one day, highly interactive course will bring attendees up to date on recent developments in UK copyright law, explaining the implications for all who use information resources in their day to day work, and what they need to tell colleagues. You will gain the confidence to deal with the practical issues which they might encounter, and to answer questions from colleagues on topics as wide ranging as orphan works, licences (including Creative Commons licences) and the significance of proposed legislative changes (including Hargreaves Review, Digital Economy Act and EU legislation) and recent key legal cases.

Who should attend:
This course is aimed at all those who undertake library and information work that involves the use of copyright materials and who are keen to learn about recent developments in copyright law and practice. Knowledge of copyright principles and law is assumed.

Course Presenters: Emily Goodhand and Professor Charles Oppenheim
Emily is the Copyright Compliance Officer at the University of Reading. She has a strong online presence as @copyrightgirl on Twitter and represents the lis-copyseek community as Vice-Chairman of the Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance (LACA). Charles was until he retired in 2009 Professor of Information Science at Loughborough University. He is now a copyright consultant, a frequent contributor to lis-copyseek discussions and is both a member of LACA and of the team that advises the JISC on IPR matters.

To register your interest in this meeting, reserve a place, or request further details, please email meetings@ukeig.org.uk
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Reading lists are a perennial issue in the academic Library. Resource lists, book lists what are they in the first place? How do you ascertain what the academics are recommending to their students and what is the process of the Library finding this out? Is the Library being bypassed by the process? How do you meet the needs of students and staff in the reading list process? How do the reading lists systems relate to other library and university systems?

Further details

These and a range of issues will be explored at this cpd25 event. Speakers from a number of institutions will be discussing the issues and explaining how they have dealt with them.

Software suppliers from some of the major reading list products will also be attending.

Speakers confirmed so far include:
Gary Brewerton (LORLS)
Hannah Young (RefWorks and Moodle – building on Telstar)
Richard Cross (TalisAspire)
Anselm Nye (TalisAspire)

Registration 9:30 – 10.00am; Finish 4pm
Cost: £90 for members and £135 for other institutions.

Venue:

The Hardy & Burnside Rooms at the London Mathematical Society, 57-58 Russell Square, London WC1B 4HS; Website: www.lms.ac.uk

More details available from http://tinyurl.com/boyczde

Venue: Queen’s University Belfast, College Park, Belfast BT7 1LP
Date: Wednesday, 7 November, 2012 – 09:30 – 16:30

Course Outline:
This important one-day seminar will bring attendees up to date on recent developments in UK copyright law, explaining the implications for all who use information resources in their day to day work, and what they need to tell colleagues. The seminar will give delegates the confidence to deal with the practical issues which they might encounter, and to answer questions from colleagues on topics as wide ranging as orphan works, licences (including Creative Commons licences) and the significance of proposed legislative changes (including Hargreaves Review, Digital Economy Act and EU legislation) and recent key legal cases. The seminar will be highly interactive, with a quiz, discussions on scenarios, and two Q&A sessions. Attendees are asked to submit questions they would like answering in advance.

Who should attend:
This course is aimed at all those who undertake library and information work that involves the use of copyright materials and who are keen to learn about recent developments in copyright law and practice. Knowledge of copyright principles and law is assumed.

Course Presenters: Emily Goodhand and Professor Charles Oppenheim
Emily is the Copyright & Compliance Officer at the University of Reading. She has a strong online presence as @copyrightgirl on Twitter and represents the lis-copyseek community as Vice-Chairman of the Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance (LACA). Charles was until he retired in 2009 Professor of Information Science at Loughborough University. He is now a copyright consultant, a frequent contributor to lis-copyseek discussions and is both a member of LACA and of the team that advises the JISC on IPR matters.

Costs (including lunch and refreshments):
UKeiG members £160 + VAT at the current rate; others £200 + VAT at the current rate

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

 Introduction to Metadata – 22nd November 2012

<http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/training/event/introduction-to-image-metadata>

This recently updated course is designed specifically to help you consider how to effectively incorporate metadata into the fabric of your digital collections, through explanation, discussion and practical activities.

 Video Production: Lectures and Interviews 2-days – 28th/29th Jan 2013

<http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/training/event/video-production-1-lectures-and-interviews>

Intended to instil basic competence in the many areas of knowledge that are needed to produce good video work. A hands-on approach is taken, such that during the two days of learning about video techniques the participants will actually produce two short videos. All equipment and facilities will be supplied.

Free On-demand Online courses:

Using the Internet to finding digital media resources –

Audio – <http://www.vtstutorials.ac.uk/tutorial/audio/>

Video – <http://www.vtstutorials.ac.uk/tutorial/video/>

Images – <http://www.vtstutorials.ac.uk/tutorial/imagesearching/>

At CILIP  Headquarters, London on Wednesday, 7 November, 2012 – 09:30 – 16:30

Course Outline:
No matter what the size of the organisation, working in a virtual team is now the way that discussions are held and decisions made. Often members of these teams are external to the organisation, and may well be in a different country and time zone.

Virtual teams are not a new way of working, and over the last three decades a great deal of research and experience has led to the establishment of a substantial amount of good practice in the management of virtual teams. However it seems that few organisations offer staff tuition in either how to participate in a virtual team, or in managing such a team.

Among the subjects to be covered will be:
.  Understanding why and how virtual teams differ from co-located teams
.  Making good use of audio and video technologies
.  Preparing for virtual team meetings
. The best structure for a virtual team meeting
. How to address the common challenges of virtual teams
. Evaluating team performance
. Developing training courses for virtual teams and team members

The course will be a mixture of presentations and group work to enable delegates to gain an insight into the benefits and challenges of virtual teams

Who should attend:
Anyone who has to manage or participate in virtual team meetings and wishes to get the best out of other team members during and between meetings.

Course Presenter: Martin White
The course will be presented by Martin White, Managing Director, Intranet Focus Ltd. He has been involved in managing virtual teams for over thirty years, and regularly works with multi-national virtual teams as a key element of his consulting projects.

Costs (including lunch and refreshments): UKeiG members £160 + VAT at the current rate; others £200 + VAT at the current rate

Using Social Media for Research, a one day course for LIS researchers and practitioners, being held in Central London, Tuesday 6th March 2012.

A one-day workshop for library and information professionals and researchers who want to look at new ways of targeting respondents and disseminating research results using social media. A highly participative workshop that will introduce delegates to techniques for improving research effectiveness, response rates and impact.

The workshop presenters David Haynes and Noeleen Schenk are experienced LIS professionals who have worked using a variety of research methods with government libraries, public library services, academic libraries and special libraries.

Book your place by visiting: www.aspire2rm2.eventbrite.co.uk. Book before 5th February 2012 for the special “early bird” rate.