The next JIBS User Group workshop will be:

How to compete with Google: Simple Resource Discovery Systems for Libraries

November 13, 2008 at the Diskus Conference Centre in London.

The idea for this workshop was sparked by a recent discussion on the ‘lis-infoliteracy’ list: is information literacy training essential for students to get the best out of their library resources or should we just be making our resource discovery systems easier to use? The debate will be summarised by one of its protagonists, Mark Hepworth of University of Loughborough. Maggie Fieldhouse will provide an insight into the information seeking behaviour of students and researchers. We will then look at some new ‘one-stop shop’ library products: Primo, Aquabrowser, ELIN and Encore, which are beginning to be introduced into HE libraries in the UK.

The intended audience for this workshop is librarians from UK HE and FE institutions. Priority bookings will be allocated accordingly but we welcome applications from other interested parties.

For a full programme and booking form please visit the JIBS website:
http://www.jibs.ac.uk/events/workshops/simplerds/

John Jarrold Room,
Sportspark,
University of East Anglia
Norwich

It is very easy for information professionals to believe they are supplying the service their users want, they can point to benefits a library service can provide, but in practice are the right questions being asked of the user and how do you decide what should be included or not on offer?
This years ANGLES/CILIP East of England seminar has five keynote speakers dealing with different aspects of these questions.

PROGRAMME

10.00 Registration and coffee.
10.25 Welcome.

10.30 How to find out what the user wants
David Streatfield, Principal, Information Management Associates.

11.15 The Library of the Future; physical or virtual?
Les Watson, Learning spaces consultant.
12.00 Break

12.15 Marketing the Library
Terry Kendrick, Lecturer in Marketing, UEA
13.00 Buffet Lunch
13.55 Introduction to afternoon

14.00 All change in a government department library
Kevin Jackson, Head of Library and Translations Service and Chief Librarian Defra

14.45 Fifth speaker; TBC
15.30 Close

There will be a charge of £50 plus VAT to members of the East of England Branch of CILIP and Angles members. (In order to find out if you are a member of these organisations please see overleaf.) For members of CILIP outside the East of England branch, non-members of CILIP and non-members of ANGLES there will be a charge of £60 plus VAT.
The venue is the John Jarrold Room of the Sportspark, University of East Anglia. The Sportspark car park is free for all conference delegates except for UEA staff or UEA students who have to park on the main campus car park (which is not free of charge).
During break for coffee-time delegates can collect a voucher at reception for a free swim. The voucher is valid one week.
On receipt of booking a map giving further details and parking will be sent.
A buffet lunch will be available, please inform the organisers of any special dietary requirements you may have.
The closing date for bookings and cancellations is Friday 31st October. For any cancellations received after this date or non-attendance without notice there will be a cancellation fee of £15.00.
For further information please contact:
Pat Hewitt,
Tel 01603 592659
Email: p.hewitt@uea.ac.uk
Or
Cathy Gale
Tel 01473 583727
Email; cathy.gale@libher.suffolkcc.gov

To book a place please email Sarah Carter sarah.carter@cefas.co.uk

NoWAL Reflective learning in the workplace – NEW for 2008 10:00 – 13:00 MMU – Learn Higher Boardroom, MRL, Geoffrey Manton Building, Manchester
Tutor: Lawraine Wood

Charges
NoWAL Members: £37.50
External Delegates: £50

Objectives:
By the end of the course, participants will have:
* an understanding of what is meant by reflective learning and why it is important in professional practice
* learnt what methods are available to reflective learners
* learnt what questions are needed to develop the skills of reflection
* had an opportunity to write a reflective piece and receive feedback
* developed a draft individual action plan

Who Should Attend?
The workshop is aimed at anyone who would like to know more about reflective learning and how to develop the associated skills.

Book a place: http://www.nowal.ac.uk/general_programme.php?action=view&sql_id=39

This one-day course covers all modern tools for organising information, focusing on taxonomies and thesauri, and gives participants the chance to construct an outline organisation of their own.

– Overview of information organisation
– Metadata
– Controlled vocabularies
– Ontologies
– Taxonomies
– Thesauri
– Knowledge organisation on the Internet
– Knowledge organisation for knowledge management
– Participants’ own examples

Why you should attend:

Organising information and knowledge for effective retrieval is of ever more importance, with the increasing importance of digital information
– especially the Internet and intranets – and of knowledge management.

This course gives an overview of the most important tools for information organisation, focusing on metadata formats, and on subject description tools, especially taxonomies and thesauri. Examples are demonstrated from a variety of digital environments, and participants have the chance to design, in outline, a information organisation tool for their own situation.

On completing the course, you will be able to:

– Understand the tools available for organising information
– Appreciate how they used in digital environments
– Be able to evaluate and use metadata formats
– Be able to evaluate and use taxonomies and thesauri
– Be able to construct an outline information organisation tool

Course
Director: Professor David Bawden

Course fee:
£260+VAT (Aslib Corporate Members) / £325+VAT (Non Members)

To book your place, please visit: http://www.aslib.com/training/

Manchester Conference Centre, Thursday October 9th, 2008, 9.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.
Join Cilip’s Mulitimedia, Information and Technology Group for their 2008 annual conference, taking place in the Manchester Conference Centre. The conference will investigate the current issues and developments surrounding Web 2.0 technologies within library environments.

Some of the very best speakers on this topic will be presenting at the conference, and the afternoon will feature a debate on the motion “This house believes that libraries need to embrace Library 2.0 technologies in order to develop and deliver their services”

The day will provide plenty of stimulating discussion and debate and will be the perfect staff development conference for anyone involved or interested in Library 2.0 developments. There will be plenty of opportunity to network with colleagues from other institutions, and refreshments and lunch are all provided.

Programme

9.30 a.m. Registration and Coffee
10.00 a.m. Russell Prue, ICT Evangelist, Inventor and Entrepreneur
11.15 a.m. Coffee
11.45 a.m. Phil Bradley, Internet Consultant
12.30 a.m. Iain Wallace, Digital Services Development Librarian,
Glasgow Caledonian University
13.15 p.m. Lunch
14.15 p.m. “This house believes that libraries need to embrace Library 2.0 technologies in order to develop and deliver their services”
For the motion
Mark Stiles, Professor of Technology and Supported Learning,
Staffordshire University

Against the motion
Nick Woolley, Information Specialist,
King’s College, London
16.00 p.m. Close and Coffee

For details of the Manchester Conference Centre, please visit:
http://www.conference.manchester.ac.uk/manchesterconferencecentre/

Now That’s What I Call Library 2.0 on Thursday October 9th, 2008
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MmIT members 80.00 + VAT (£94.00) per person
Non MmIT members 120.00 + VAT (£141.00) per person

Diet: Vegetarian
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Please download this booking form and either email, fax or post it to:

Leo Appleton
Email: l.appleton1@ljmu.ac.uk
Tel: 0151 231 3763
Address: Aldham Robarts LRC, Maryland Street, Liverpool, L1 9DE