ASLIB courses

...a collection of information but who have little or no knowledge or experience of how to do it. The collection may include books, periodicals...

...information managers knowledge managers user-facing IT specialists What do you get out of it? On completing the workshop you will: understand the key...

...records in online OPACs via the Internet Why you should attend: If you have experience of cataloguing or database compilation but need guidance or practice...

...Course highlights basic principles and objectives General and special schemes and thesauri Build-your-own subject heading or classification scheme Practical...

...This course, based on the new BSI standard, will give you a practical guide to producing and maintaining a thesaurus. Suitable for: Those who need to develop...

...software/the Web • Trading in copyright materials • The international dimension • Copyright and career development A basic understanding of copyright highlights...

...for their own copyright policy Identified how to successfully ensure compliance Exchanged ideas, strategies and best practice examples within a supportive...

...Current trends in journal publishing 11:30 Collection management (part one) 12.00 Demonstration of an intermediary's service 12:30 Lunch 13:30 Collection management...

...sources with confidence Search indexes and databases efficiently Know what to do if you can't find the answer...

...Understand the relationship between indexing and metadata creation Understand the value of controlled languages for indexing Index different forms of material...

...records management for the first time and wish to gain a grounding in the relevant concepts and techniques, building on and adapting their existing skills as information professionals...

...On completing the course, you will be able to: understand what metadata is, how it is used, and why it is important be familiar with several widely-used...

...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...

...information overload or even infobesity? Want to avoid information avoidance? Are you, or your users, suffering from the paradox of choice, and are...

...and decide how to provide services that get your information unit noticed and valued. Suitable for: People who may be new to information...

...Be able to assess the immediate information needs of an individual Be able to plan an information needs analysis for a group, department or organisation...

...In Brief This course is for anyone interested in the use of Web 2.0 and social media tools to promote services. Emphasis wil be on ideas for those working in...

...in their career where they are adding longer term project work to their basic information retrieval duties and 2) managers/mentors helping such people...

...thesaurus basics; preliminary analysis; getting the overall structure; collecting terms in thesaurus form; adding term relations; adding term information...

...across copyright as a live issue and need to understand how to handle the challenges it poses. Course highlights: Basic principles of copyright law Types...