The CE Programme in
Detail
30th June
and 1st July
Building and Managing the
Digital Library: Concepts, Strategies, Case Studies and the State of Digital Libraries
Today and Tomorrow (two-day course)
MLA-Accredited course
Define a vision for your
digital library and its information services that will guide its ongoing development.
Examine various strategies for managing your DL and its content and services. Examine
various methods for fostering, evaluating, selecting and providing access to
Internet-based resources. Consider many of the important issues facing DL designers today,
including working with vendors, publishers, parent institutions and consortia of
institutions, access control, licensing and copyright.
Trainer: Scott Garrison,
Head, Systems Interface Services, Duke University Medical Center Library, USA
Location: Central London
Cost: £200 + VAT
Friday 30th
June
Animal Health Information
(one day)
An interactive session
covering recent developments in the animal health and veterinary information landscapes.
Innovative services will be demonstrated, including Vetgate, the animal health section of
BIOME, a UK-based resource discovery project.
Trainer: Tom Roper,
Librarian, The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
Location: Central London
Cost: £100 +VAT
Benchmarking for LIS :
some tools and techniques (one day)
MLA-Accredited course
The need for effective
ways of evaluating service strengths, weaknesses and quality is essential to health
libraries in any setting, particularly in the dynamic environments in which health
libraries operate today. The issue, challenges and opportunities related to implementing
successful benchmarking or evidence-based librarianship in the health library setting will
be reviewed and discussed.
Trainer: Judy Inglis,
Director, J W Crane Memorial Library, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Location: Central London
Cost: £100 +VAT
The Impact of Genomics
on Health and Healthcare Libraries (one day)
The current explosion of
genetic information is profoundly affecting all healthcare disciplines. New information
resources are being developed including sequence, structure and mapping databases. This
symposium is designed to improve librarians basic understanding of genomic
information resources and to promote their exploitation. Attendees will gain an
appreciation of the current status of the Human Genome project, developments in
information science, the current and future impact on medical practice and current ethical
debates. The symposium is being hosted by the Wellcome Trust.
Facilitator: Frank
Norman, National Institute for Medical Research
Location: Central London
Cost: £100 +VAT
Innovation at work
(one day)
A challenging one day
course offering innovative approaches to problem solving.
Participants will
practice individual and group techniques to encourage innovative thinking at work to help
staff to unlock their own creativity and therefore respond positively to change.
Library Association
Developed Course
Trainer: Beryl Morris,
Hudson Rivers
Location: Central London
Cost: £100 +VAT
Leadership (one
day)
Examines current
leadership issues facing senior library and information managers and identifies ways in
which you can develop practical leadership skills to deal effectively with challenging
situations and capitalise on the strengths of your team to obtain the best performance
possible.
Library Association
Developed Course
Trainer: Roger
OConnell, LevelHeaded
Location: Central London
Cost: £100 +VAT
Supporting Evidence
Based Healthcare : Search Skills (half-day - afternoon) (half-day - afternoon)
Intensive session on the
skills needed to locate research evidence, such as the use of methodological filters.
Trainer: Staff from
the Information Resources Department of the University of Sheffield School of Health and
Related Research
Location: Central London
Cost: £50 +VAT
Teaching skills for
librarians (one day)
User education or
information skills teaching expertise is of growing importance. Changes in medical,
nursing and allied health education offer increasing opportunities for innovative
information skills teaching by library staff. This course will help to develop skills to
support this work through a mixture of formal presentations and workshop sessions.
Trainer: Jean Yeoh,
Education & Training Librarian, St Georges Hospital Medical School, London
Location: Central London
Cost: £100 +VAT
Saturday 1st
July
Consumer Health
Information (one day)
One day workshop on
current developments in consumer health information
with the opportunity to
visit the National Centre for Health Information Quality and the new 24 - hour NHS Direct
health information and nursing advice call centre.
Trainer: Bob Gann,
Director of the Centre for Health Information Quality
Location: Winchester.
Cost: £50 +VAT
(Participants will need to make their own travel arrangements to Winchester.)
Financial Management
(one day)
An introduction to financial
and business concepts which will clarify how budgeting and professional roles can be
integrated in the modern organisation. By the end of the day participants will, amongst
other aspects, be able to understand the financial planning processes of organisations,
understand and use basic financial jargon, understand the purpose and uses of Service
Level Agreements and internal trading (cross charging) arrangements and use budgeting
principles in designating financial categories and targets.
Library Association
Developed Course
Trainer: Larraine
Cooper, The Larian Consultancy
Location: Central London
Cost: £100 +VAT
Internet
Developing Countries
(one day)
This course will provide
an overview of the Internet/WWW covering background, basic applications, resources and
organisation. It is particularly aimed at users and potential users from developing
countries. There will be an opportunity for more experienced users to look at web site
design and publishing on the web. It is very much a hands-on course!
Trainer: Lenny Rhine,
Health Science Center Library, University of Florida and Elizabeth Connor
Location: Central London
Cost: £100 +VAT
(Sponsorship may be available for this course)
Mentoring and Coaching
Skills (one day)
Mentors advise, teach,
encourage and above all help those they mentor to develop the confidence and sound
judgement which all employers want their staff to display. Mentoring is increasingly being
seen as an important part of good management and as a supplement to professional education
and training. This event is suitable for managers who are considering introducing
mentoring schemes and for people who wish to be good mentors.
Trainer: Gill
Burrington
Location: Central London
Cost: £100 +VAT
New Ways of Working
(one day)
The EU Directive on working
hours has forced employers to examine the working practices in their organisations.
Employment law terms and conditions vary throughout the world but with the impact of new
technology there are the opportunities for staff to work more flexibly to suit both
individual and organisational needs. This course will look at the different options
available to cope with all these developments and will challenge the assumption that we
all need to be in the office to do our jobs.
Library Association
Developed Course
Trainer: Peter Firkin,
Continuing to Learn
Location: Central London
Cost: £100 +VAT
Supporting Evidence
Based Healthcare : Critical Appraisal (Half-day morning) (Half-day morning)
An intensive session to
enable librarians/information professionals the skills and knowledge needed to support the
retrieval of good quality studies.
Trainer: Staff from
the Information Resources Department of the University of Sheffield School of Health and
Related Research
Location: Central London
Cost: £50 +VAT
Supporting Evidence
Based Healthcare : Preparing an evidence digest
(Half-day
afternoon)
An intensive session
which will demonstrate how librarians can use searching and critical appraisal skills to
produce a digest of evidence on a topic and teach the basic skills required.
Trainer: Staff from
the Information Resources Department of the University of Sheffield School of Health and
Related Research
Location: Central London
Cost: £50 +VAT |