Course Code
ANLTC 2010/04

Date
Wednesday 1 September 2010                       

Venue
The Mentoring Suite, The Library, DCU 

Description
This course will be tailored to meet the needs of ANLTC member institutions and will be delivered in the context of existing work done on local institutional repositories and on the national portal.  Through the course participants will build on their current metadata skills and learn to improve the performance and retrievability of material from institutional repositories.    Special note:  This course is not about setting up an institutional repository.

Audience
This course is intended for library and information staff with responsibility for metadata development, creation and for the tagging of a variety of materials in institutional repositories.  Note:  Numbers are limited to 15

Cost
€120

Presenter
David Haynes – CILIP Trainer:   David is an information consultant who has advised professional bodies, government departments, academic institutions and commercial organisation about taxonomies and has developed file plans, thesauri and classification schemes. He is also author of ‘Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval’ published by Facet Publishing.

Course Code:  2010/02

Date:   Friday, 19 March 2010

Description:  This workshop will offer an insight into current trends, challenges and methodologies in e-publishing and highlight future directions in scholarly communication. Participants will be informed about innovative digital humanities projects currently underway throughout Ireland and will be introduced to the work of the Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO), which serves to support and guide these projects. Kevin Hawkins, University of Michigan, will share his expertise with attendees. He is joined by Dr Susan Schreibman, a leading international digital humanities scholar. They will discuss successful and unsuccessful e-publishing ventures and discuss the implications of both.  Claire Warwick will discuss research carried out at UCL DIS on how humanities scholars use digital resources, and talk about what features they need, and what they enjoy or find frustrating about them. She will go on to describe how users can and should be involved in the process of designing digital resources, ideally from the beginning of the project, and look at the lessons we can learn from good practice by the builders of well-used resources.

 Audience:  Anyone interested in the development and management of projects in e-publishing and digital humanities

Course presenters:  Dr Susan Schreibman, Director of the DHO;  Kevin Hawkins, Visiting Metadata Manager at the DHO and Electronic Publishing Librarian at the University of Michigan;  Dr. Claire Warwick, Director UCL Centre for Digital Humanities Programme and Director Electronic Communication and Publishing UCL Department of Information Studies

Host Library:  Royal Irish Academy, Dublin

Capacity:  60

Cost: €100

Application Form

Course Code:                        ANLTC 2010/01

Date:                           Wednesday 3 February  2010                       

Venue                         Seminar Room 2, John Paul 2 Library, NUI Maynooth 

Time:                          9.30 – 4.30

Description:               Writing for academic publication offers library staff an opportunity to share experiences, research, opinions and practice with colleagues nationally and internationally.  While this course focused primarily on writing for journals, other forms of publication such as book reviews, book chapters and conference papers will be touched on.  The course has a strong practical emphasis and participants will do an outline and begin to draft an article during the workshop.

Audience:       The course is for library staff who wish to write for publication.

The morning session is a workshop.  Following lunch, librarians who have published will share their experience and a journal editor will give tips and practical guidance on maximising the chances of publishing

By the end of the course participants will have:

• A clear understanding of the different requirements for publishing in peer-reviewed and professional journals
• Explored methods for identifying suitable topics and different writing approaches for different audiences
• Practiced a range of techniques for generating ideas and structuring articles
• Examined factors which contribute to style and writing flow
• Gained first hand experience from a journal editor of reasons for  accepting/rejecting manuscripts and how to maximize your chance of acceptance
• Drawn up an outline and commenced drafting draft an article
• Gained familiarity with a range of wikis and blogs to support librarians as academic writers
• Identified two peer-support people from the group to help progress their writing

Note:               Numbers are limited to 16

Cost:               €120

Presenters:     Helen Fallon (NUI Maynooth) will present the workshop. 

Guest speakers are Dr. John Cullen (NUI Maynooth) a former librarian who has published extensively and Marjory Sliney (Editor, An Leabharlann)

Slides from this event EVENT201001SLID

• 80: Library Services to Non-Traditional Users
• 81: Collection Management Strategies for the Hybrid Library
• 82: Searching the Web
• 83: Group Facilitation Skills
• 84: Supervisory Skills
• 86: Marrying effective learning and teaching with online technology:  in an information skills context
• 87: Tools and Techniques for Project Management
• 89: Disaster Planning for Libraries

• 91: DDC 22
• 92: Conflict Handling and Resolution
• 94: Introduction to Subject Cataloguing using LCSH
• 95: Reference Skills
• 97: Managing Electronic Resources
• 98: Using Web Technology
• 99: Supervisory Skills
• 100: Continuing Professional Development Colloquium
• 101: Quality Measures
• 103: Reality of the Virtual Learning Environment

• 2005/01 Designing and Delivering Information Skills Sessions
• 2005/02: Digitization Workshop
• 2005/05: Writing for the Web
• 2005/06: Conflict Handling and Resolution
• 2005/07: Managing Outsourcing
• 2005/08: Innovative Marketing for Libraries
• 2005/11: Budgeting and Financial Management
• 2005/12: Information Desk Skills