Writing for Publication – 7th December 2007

Event type: Engineering Subject Centre
Engineering Subject Centre Event.

Date: 7 December 2007

Held by: Engineering Subject Centre and Information and Computer Sciences Subject Centre.

Location: Keith Green Building, Loughborough University.

Summary: This workshop is aimed at library and information professionals who want to publish or write for conferences and journals. The aim of the day is to encourage delegates to reflect on the process of writing and publishing, and share practice. This workshop may also be of interest to PhD students and new academics. There is no charge for this event and lunch will be provided.

This event is hosted jointly by ICS and the Engineering Subject Centre

Naomi Dungworth
Information Officer
Higher Education Academy Engineering Subject Centre Loughborough University Leicestershire
LE11 3TU
Tel: 01509 227178 Fax: 01509 227172
Email: naomi@engsc.ac.uk

http://www.ics.heacademy….vent.php?id=187

Supporting researchers in academic libraries

Supporting researchers in academic libraries – a half-day event organised by the University, College and Research Group (UCRG) Northern Section of CILIP, the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals

Date and venue: Monday 3rd December, 1-4.30pm at Trevelyan College, Durham University

What are researchers’ library and information needs, and how are these being explored?
What is the nature of the skills agenda for researchers, and where does information literacy fit in? How can we best support researchers in academic libraries?

These and other issues will be explored at the above event, taking up some of the themes covered in a UCRG London event earlier this year, providing an opportunity to find out about current developments and discuss researcher support with colleagues.

**open to all – members and non-members alike!**

Programme:

1pm Registration and refreshments

1.30pm Welcome and introduction from the Chair, Oliver Pritchard

1.40pm Dr Michael Jubb – Director, Research Information Network (RIN):
“Relationships between researchers and libraries: past, present and future”

2.10pm Moira Bent – National Teaching Fellow and Faculty Liaison Librarian,
Newcastle University and Pat Gannon-Leary – Research Associate, Learning &
Teaching Support, Northumbria University :
“The 21st century researcher: developing and managing library and information
services to facilitate research”

2.40pm Refreshments and networking

3.10pm Dr Eleanor Loughlin – Graduate Training Officer and Nicola Siminson –
Researcher Training Librarian, Durham University:
“Putting policy into practice: one institution’s approach”

3.40pm Panel discussion

4.20pm Summary

4.30pm Close

Venue: The Dowrick Suite, Trevelyan College, Durham University, Elvet Hill Road,
Durham DH1 3LN
Map: http://www.dur.ac.uk/trevelyan.college/conferences/howtofindus/
Access: The venue is on the ground floor and has un-stepped access via the main door,
with wheelchair spaces and an accessible toilet.

Cost: £30.00 for UCRG members, £40.00 for non-members (including refreshments and VAT). There are 10 free places for students or unemployed people – these will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

Bookings: For further information and to book a place, please contact Nicola Siminson
(details below).

Please book by Wednesday 28th November 2007, to enable refreshments to be arranged.

Information Law for Information Professionals – 19/02/08

A UKeiG Course: Information Law for Information Professionals:
What you NEED to know about
Copyright, Data Protection, Freedom of Information and Accessibility and Disability Discrimination Laws

to be held at

CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE Tuesday, 19th February 2008, 9.30-16.30

Course Outline
In particular, four key legal areas currently affect the work of many information professionals in the digital environment – copyright, data protection, freedom of information, and disability discrimination and accessibility. This one-day introductory course will chart a path through the complexities of these subjects. Each area will be succinctly overviewed and the key aspects of the legal regime and requirements in each area will be outlined and explained. Delegates will be taken step-by-step through the fundamentals of each area. An understanding of each topic will be illuminated by real-life examples or scenarios explaining the application of the laws in a wide range of contexts. The day will also highlight the inter-relationships between each of these important areas of information law. There will be opportunities for discussion and exchanges of experience. The day will close with a presentation on how to manage actively legal compliance in these areas in an institutional or organisational context.

The sessions will include:
* Copyright: everything the information professional needs to know
* Copyright in action: scenarios and key issues in copyright in an electronic context
* Data protection: overview of the data protection regime for information professionals
* Data protection in action: specific issues in information, publishing and library contexts
* Freedom of information: outline of UK freedom of information laws (including Scotland)
* Freedom of information in action: compliance and making it work for information professionals
* Accessibility and disability discrimination law: overview of the legal regime
* Accessibility in action: key issues in provision of digital information and services to users
* Managing compliance with information laws in your organisation

Within each area a wide range of topics/problems will be used to shed light on the problems faced by information professionals, or how the laws can be used by them in appropriate contexts.

The course will be led by presentations but will include real-life problems and scenarios for discussion, and plenty of opportunity for questions and answers.

Who Should Attend
The course is relevant to anyone involved with the legal issues relating to the creation, storage, accessing, publishing or use of information. Anyone working with information, especially digital information, or who needs a sound grasp of the foundations of each of these areas will benefit from the Course. Those with responsibility for managing one or more of these areas in their organisation and who need a sound grounding in each of them will also benefit.

Course Presenter
Laurence Bebbington is Law Librarian and Information Services Copyright Officer at the University of Nottingham. He is a former Vice Chair of UKOLUG. He has presented papers or taken seminars on various aspects of legal issues in information work. He has published various articles and papers and is a joint editor (with C.J. Armstrong) and contributor to the 2nd edition of Staying Legal: A Guide To Issues And Practice Affecting the Library, Information and Publishing Sectors, FACET (2003).

http://www.ukeig.org.uk/b…from-ukeig.html

Reflective writing – 30th November 2007

10:00 – 13:00
University of Liverpool – Taylor Room, Sydney Jones Library
Tutor: Margaret Chapman

Charges
NoWAL Members: £37.50
External Delegates: £50

Although it doesn’t come naturally to most of us, increasingly we are expected to use reflective writing skills. Whether it be for personal development or for service development, this course will help participants to:
* Appreciate the importance of reflection
* Recognise the differences between descriptive writing and reflective writing
* Explore the circumstances under which reflective writing might be necessary and/or useful
* Develop confidence in learning and developing through reflection
* Develop styles of reflective writing

Comments from previous attendees
“A very good presenter. Very welcoming and friendly, enthusiastic. Loved the little anecdotes, examples. Feel inspired to start on my revalidation and have got loads of actions to do.”

“Some really useful ideas that I should be able to put into practice for Chartership and my job role.”

Book a place on this course
http://www.nowal.ac.uk/general_programme.php?action=view&sql_id=8

http://www.nowal.ac.uk/ge…n=view&sql_id=8

Transformational technologies: Web 2.0 in the library environment

This major one day seminar is being organised in Glasgow on November 2nd by CILIP in Scotland. It will be of interest to anyone wanting to learn more about social software, social networking sites and virtual worlds including RSS feeds, blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, Second Life, MySpace, Facebook and resource sharing in general.

Our speakers include

Karen Blakeman, Honorary Fellow of CILIP with over 20 years experience in the information profession, and recent winner of the Information World Review Information Professional of the Year award who will consider new roles for information professionals.

Jo Parker, who heads the Information Literacy Unit Manager at the Open University and whose research interests cover information literacy and Web 2.0 will discuss the new Open University module, ‘Beyond Google’.

Dave Pattern, the Library Systems Manager at the University of Huddersfield, is a web developer with over 10 years of experience and has recently been involved in incorporating a variety of Web/Library 2.0 style enhancements into the OPAC.

Betty Willder works for the JISC Legal Information Service and is a qualified Scottish solicitor. She has previously worked in private practice, the insurance industry and also in the commercial department of an IT consultancy. With a keen interest in IT and communications law Betty will look at the legal implications for institutions of user generated content.

Setting the scene for the day by providing an overview of Library 2.0 and Web 20 is Brain Kelly, the UK Web Focus Officer at UKOLN, a centre of expertise in digital information management, providing advice and services to the library, information, education and cultural heritage communities.
Delegate fees are as follows: £60 CILIP members; £95 non-members; £84 institutional members.

A full programme and booking form is available at
http://www.slainte.org.uk/events/EvntShow.cfm?uEventID=763

http://www.slainte.org.uk…fm?uEventID=763

Staffordshire University Information literacy Community of Practice (SUILCoP)

Building on the success of the Information Literacy: Recognising the Need conference Staffordshire University have set up a Community of Practice which aims to share good practice and discuss new ideas in IL teaching and learning within the university sector. As part of this a series of half-day workshops are held throughout the year.

Four workshops were held between July 2006 and April 2007 and were well received by all who attended.

A further series is planned for 2007-08 which will explore the theme of Information literacy: space, strategy and support.

Forthcoming SUILCoP Events
The next SUILCoP Workshop will be held on 7 November 2007 and will focus on information literacy and the use of space.

The workshop will take place at the Ashley Centre on the Leek Road campus of Staffordshire University from 1.30-4.30 pm. The cost for the half-day is £30.

Speakers:

Flexible Learning Spaces: Bob Glass, Manchester Metropolitan University
Participatory Cultures: Dave Parkes, Staffordshire University
To book a place on this workshop please complete the online booking from at:

http://www.staffs.ac.uk/suilcop/bookingform/

Fo information on the rest of the programme for 2007-2008 go to:

http://www.staffs.ac.uk/suilcop/events/index.php

Geoff Walton & Alison Pope

http://www.staffs.ac.uk/suilcop/events/index.php

Autumn one day training courses at Manchester Business School

Each of these one day courses are held at the Manchester Business School, and include refreshments throughout the day and a three course lunch. Avoid the time and expense of travelling to London and take advantage of our competitive rates.

Next courses:

Thursday 25 October
Emotional Intelligence
10am-5pm
£250/£215*
Course leader: Deborah Dalley
For leadership positions, emotional intelligence competencies account for up to 85% of what sets outstanding managers apart from the average. This workshop outlines key principles of emotional intelligence, allowing delegates the opportunity to review ways to develop their EI capabilities.

Wednesday 14 November
Project Management
10am-5pm
£250/£215*
Course leader: Chris Murphy
This course provides a set of techniques for managing projects:
determining project scope, planning and realisation, project team schedule and control, progress monitoring, software packages? contribution, corrective action if the project strays from course and project reporting

Tuesday 27 November
Managing a Customer Focused Environment
10am-5pm
£250/£215*
Course leader: Deborah Dalley
Designed to help managers develop their service into a customer-centred one, through: service strategy, systems and processes and the staff delivering the service. Case examples of good practice are used and delegates can discuss and review their own organisation.

*reduced rates for BIS/BINN/Manchester Momentum members

For full course information, details of the course leaders and booking details on these courses, please click here: www.mbs.ac.uk/bis-training

Jane Marshall
Business Information Officer
Business Information Service
Eddie Davies Library (part of the John Rylands University Library) Manchester Business School The University of Manchester Booth Street West Manchester M15 6PB 0161 275 6503 (ext 56503)

http://www.mbs.ac.uk/bis-training

Is Library 2.0 a Trivial Pursuit?

JIBS User Group Workshop

“Is Library 2.0 a Trivial Pursuit?”
21 November 9:15 – 16:15

The Diskus, London

Should serious academic libraries spend time becoming involved with web 2.0 or is it all too trivial to waste time on?
Speakers from Britain Ireland and Holland will present case studies on the use of library 2.0 technologies. In the afternoon Phil Bradley , author of “How to Use Web 2.0 in Your Library” and Gary Horrocks and Nick Wooley of Kings College will lead on the the debate that ‘This house believes that Library 2.0 is a Trivial Pursuit”

This event is free to people whose organisations are members of JIBS and GBP 50 to non members.

Full details of the workshop, booking form, and a link to see if your organisation is a JIBS member are available on the new look JIBS web site

http://www.jibs.ac.uk/

http://www.jibs.ac.uk/events

CILIP Mentoring Day

Date: Friday 9th November 2007
Time: 9.30am – 4.30pm

Location: Clayport Library
8 Millennium Place
Durham, DH1 1WA
Telephone: 0191 386 4003

A one day workshop on behalf of CILIP.
Cost = £11.76 (£10+VAT) Please make cheques payable to CILIP, unfortunately we cannot invoice for this amount.
Lunch is kindly provided courtesy of North East CILIP.

The purpose of this course is to provide participants with a background to mentoring, a basic framework for conducting mentoring both long and short term. The focus of the event is to enable participants to develop effectively as mentors in the context of the CILIP professional development scheme.

Mentor Training is a requisite for becoming a CILIP Mentor and this course is suitable for all CILIP members who have recently registered as CILIP mentors or are thinking of registering. Do come along and find out more about the mentoring scheme.

By the end of the day participants will:
* Understand the function of mentoring in the CILIP CPD process
* Have had the opportunity to explore and experience mentoring
* Be able to make an assessment of their facility as mentors and identify their development needs in this area

Members who have previously attended a course on mentoring skills may attend the afternoon only (14.00-16.30) to join in the elements relating to the CILIP scheme.

Facilitators:
Jeanette Stephenson, Info and Community Development Manager, Durham Viki Lagus, Community Development Librarian, South Tyneside

To book contact: Viki Lagus. Please email viki.lagus@southtyneside.gov.uk with your details, or alternatively you can phone 0191 428 2318.

ACLIP Day in Sunderland

Career Development Group North Eastern Division / Affiliated Member’s Group

Title: Certification Day

Certification is the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) new award which provides recognition of the contribution made in library and information work by para-rofessionals, and will be recognised by the award of new postnominal letters, ACLIP.

This day offers the opportunity for you to find out more about the Certification process, support on offer, and the chance to meet other people who are interested in the process. A successful candidate will also describe her approach to competing Certification. For the CV workshop please bring a draft copy of your CV for this session.

Date: Friday 16th November 2007

Time: 9:30am – 4:00pm

Venue: Sunderland City Library, Fawcett Street, Sunderland

Map: http://www.sunderland.gov.uk/Pages/PDF/city_centre_map.pdf

Cost: £11.75 (including VAT)