Library Services to Non-Traditional Users
Course code: ANLTC 80
Date: Thursday 16th January 2003
Description: Changes in higher education, student profiles and equality legislation have meant more academic library users do not fit the “traditional” model. Distance learners, part-time or disabled students are some examples of these users. This one-day event will explore the challenges for academic libraries and look at some of the practical solutions.
Presenter: Colette McKenna, User Services Librarian, University of Ulster and others
Participants: Professional library staff responsible for policies that will improve access to their services and those staff with special responsibility for any type of non-traditional user.
Host library: University of Ulster
Venue: Learning Resources Centre, Jordanstown Campus, Newtownabbey, Co.Antrim.
Fee: €60.00 sterling per person
Collection Management Strategies for the Hybrid Library
Course code: ANLTC 81
Date: Wednesday 29th January 2003
Description: This one-day event will examine issues including collaboration, deselection policies, storage, archiving and digitization for print, non-print and e-materials.
Participants: All library staff
Host Library: University College Dublin, Dublin
Venue: Bewleys Hotel, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4
Fee: €100.00 per person
Searching the Web
Course code: ANLTC 82
Date: Thursday 6th February 2003
Description: Searching the Web is an everyday occurrence for library staff and users, but both groups often take a rushed and simplistic approach. Finding good quality information on the Web is often complex, requiring an up-to-date knowledge of how to use a range of evolving general and specialist search tools. This course will provide overviews of a variety of issues, including developments in the main search engines, search techniques, evaluation, user training, reference tools and news services. There will be a mix of presentations, practical work and group discussion.
Presenters: Lisa Callaghan (DCU), John Cox (NUI, Galway), Arlene Healy (TCD),
Niall McSweeney (NUI, Galway) Hugo Kelly (NUI Galway)
Participants: Staff whose work involves searching the Web on their own or
others’ behalf; numbers limited to 16
Host Library: NUI, Galway
Fee: €100 per person
Group Facilitation Skills
Course code: ANLTC 83
Date: Friday 28th February 2003
Description: The objectives of this one day programme are to give participants an understanding of the process of group facilitation and the skills required by a facilitator. There will be an opportunity to practice these skills during the session.
Topics to be covered:
- Group facilitation defined
- the skills of facilitation
- Before you start! (pre-work)
Goals, group expectations and opening the session. Managing and controlling contributions. Leading and structuring a group discussion. Managing conflict and disagreement. Outcomes, action plan and follow up.
Presenters: Annette Keane, Institute of Public Administation, Dublin.
Host Library: NUIM
Fee: €100 per person
Supervisory Skills
Course code: ANLTC 84
Date: Thursday 6th March 2003
Description: this course on supervisory skills will enable participants
- to explore their purposes in being a supervisor
- to discover how to build a motivating environment
- to look at setting goals and allocating work
- to establish standards for work to be done
- to identify ways of briefing staff and keeping them informed
- to look at how to give and receive praise and criticism
Presenters: Treasa Kenny
Participants: The course is aimed at senior library assistants, library assistants
and others who supervise staff as part of their role.
Host Library: National Library of Ireland
Fee: €100 per person
Advanced Reading Skills
Course code: ANLTC 85
Date: Cancelled
Description: Techniques to reduce the amount of time spent reading and evaluating important documents, while improving assimilation and retention
Presenters: TBA
Participants: Library management staff with more essential material to read than time to read it.
Host Library: NUI, Cork
Venue:
Fee: €100 per person
Marrying effective learning and teaching with online technology: in an information skills context
Course code: ANLTC 86
Date: Friday 4th April 2003
Description: This participative, one-day workshop, will introduce participants to the issues and challenges asssociated with the use of technology in a teaching and learning context. Content includes: pedagogical issues, models of online teaching, overview of technology, design issues, assessment and evaluation.
Presenter: Roisin Donnelly
Participants: Library staff with specific responsibility for the delivery
of information skills training.
Host Library: Dublin City University, Dublin
Venue: Dublin
Fee: €100 per person
Tools and Techniques for Project Management
Course code: ANLTC 87
Date: Tuesday 8 April 2003
Description: Management of projects, big and small, is an increasingly vital role for library managers. Attendees at this course will receive an introduction to the key principles underlying successful project management, including planning, scheduling, monitoring and progress reporting with an emphasis throughout on the people side of projects, including team co-ordination and group roles.
Presenter: Jim Cumiskey, Institute of Public Administration
Participants: Staff at managerial level; numbers limited to 16
Host library: NUI, Galway
Venue: James Hardiman Library, NUI, Galway
Fee: €100 per person
Performance Indicators
Course code: ANLTC 88
Course cancelled
In times of trouble – disaster planning for libraries
Course code: ANLTC 89
Date: Wednesday 11 June 2003
Description: Disaster planning and recovery should now be an established part of everyday management in libraries. Among the themes covered in this one-day conference will be:
* Writing a disaster plan
* Surviving a disaster and learning from the lessons
* Understanding the national disaster planning perspective
* Finding out about the UK and Ireland Blue Shield Organisation
* Preventing disasters in the first place
* Dealing with the aftermath of disasters-insurance issues
Presenters: Deborah Shorley, Librarian at the University of Sussex; Jon Purcell, Deputy Librarian, University of Newcastle upon Tyne; Owen Braford, Print Services Manager and Conservation Officer, University of Newcastle upon Tyne and a representative from the insurance and loss adjustment field.
Participants: Staff with responsibility for Disaster Planning
Host library: University of Limerick
Venue: University of Limerick
Fee: €100 per person
Visit to James Ussher Library
Course code: ANLTC 90
Date: Tuesday 9th September 2003
Description: This is an opportunity for a guided tour of the James Ussher Library at Trinity College Dublin. The Library was officially opened in April 2003 and houses the largest map collection in the country with over 500,000 items in its care and represents a unique resource covering cartographic information from the 17th century in both printed and increasingly in digital form. TCD’s
Library conservation facilities are also housed in the Ussher Library. The department has developed and disseminated innovative techniques and quality benchmarks through its work in the care of manuscripts and early printed materials. The new Conservation Department provides a custom built facility for the further development of these traditional techniques allied to application of the best
of contemporary technology.
Timetable:
11.15 – Coffee
11.30 – Brief address by the Librarian
11.45 – Tour
